News and notes from around the interweb:
- “The Delta Difference” also known as ‘what’s grosser than gross?’ I maintain that an airline ticket is a product bundle, and you can reasonably expect that product to be more than just transportation between two points. Your seat area should be reasonably clean of hair.
This passenger did not get the product they purchased and should be entitled to a refund:
Just sat down in my seat and I see this…
byu/millerva indelta - Korean Air has started making first class award space available again funny, right after expiring points that had been paused due to the pandemic. This used to be the most reliable first class redemption to Asia – one I did many times when nothing else was available. I’ve even had Korean first class cabins to myself a few times.
- I guess this Hilton meant well leaving a welcome amenity?
Hotel left this upon my arrival
byu/iHitAirplanes inMoldlyInteresting - Killeen should rename itself ‘North Austin’ airport
- Air Canada is offering to sell points with a 100% bonus (1.22 cents) I consider being a buyer at 125% bonus, personally, but it very much varies by your situation and how and when you’ll use the points.
Regarding the welcome amenity at a Hilton with mold-covered strawberries. In most cases, you probably shouldn’t eat welcome amenities. At least if they’re fruit, cheeses and the like. They can sit for hours at room temperature. In some cases with no covering.
On cleaning crews, have we tried paying them better? Like, companies get what they pay for, and it’s hard to demand perfection if you pay awful minimum wages. Oh, yeah, and if our fellow passengers could stop being freaks, that’d be swell, too.
In other news, US Travel has killed off the Daily Getaways program:
“The program has been discontinued and per the program terms and conditions all sales are final as of 10/31/2024”
https://www.ustravel.org/programs/daily-getaways
That is not ordinary hair, that is premium hair.
Just last week on an American Airlines flight from Punta Cana on boarding the seat pocket in front of me had bunch of tissues stuffed in it that presumably were used by prior flight’s passenger to blow their nose. Oh man I refused to touch the seat pocket or store anything I was going to in it.
The issue is that cleaning crews have like 5 minutes to clean a plane. It’s not going to get much of a cleaning. The public demands $59 fares and thus gross planes.
Maybe the hair was draped over the seat and cut by another passenger in retribution? If so, it is a war trophy
Such “war trophy” would then be evidence of a crime. It’s criminal assault to cut a stranger’s hair without consent of the hair owner or of a caretaker for the hair owner.
That’s a hair extension. You can see the glob of glue on the end where it was bonded to the wearer’s hair/scalp. They can be expensive. I imagine the owner meant to take it with them, but forgot. Not gross, really… just like any other trash/garbage stuffed into the seat back pocket. Certainly not as agregious as the moldy strawberries. (yuck!)