News and notes from around the interweb:
- Remember when Delta was doing ‘eco-conscious things’ like getting rid of plastics (but not really, and these were just cost cuts, they were even asking business class passengers to skip meals for the environment and their carbon program turned out to be a scam)?
- This is correct, and why the narratives in favor of re-regulating the airlines are incoherent.
They couch it as being pro-consumer when it’s not because the goal is not to be pro-consumer, it’s to construct a world advocates prefer which is impossible to do under conditions of competition (unions prefer regulated monopolies because high prices and profitable airlines are better for high wages, and it doesn’t matter that it’s high wages for fewer workers since it’s existing incumbent workers who benefit).
What does Spirit Airlines’ collapse reveal about the bigger fight over competition, deregulation, and antitrust?
In this clip, @mattyglesias literally puts on the tinfoil hat and argues that the debate over airline deregulation is a “tell” for a much larger ideological divide:… pic.twitter.com/AW8BoEhRCY
— The Argument (@TheArgumentMag) May 14, 2026
- “Service animal” (Yeah, right.)
- More Southwest Airlines layoffs they had never done layoffs in their history until last year, now the CEO talks excitedly about them during earnings calls.
- Since American Airlines doesn’t clean their planes, you can leave things behind in the seat back pocket that you might want future passengers to read.
AND WHY WAS THIS IN MY WIFE’S SEATBACK?? Can’t be an accident they’ve targeted Jews with this. @AmericanAir pic.twitter.com/ftlRJzlqoO
— $≡@ñ (@brownsean) May 16, 2026
- The balad of Spirit Airlines.
You think environmentalists want plastic forks? No, I think they’re into bamboo (or, reusable metal ones, like they do in First, but, but.. ‘security,’ but, but… for real, the cost to clean them for all the plebs is too much, even though it really isn’t, especially now that petroleum byproducts are gonna be more expensive.) So, sure, the entree is greenwashing, and, of course, a side of manufactured outrage, like usual, on here. Eat up!