News and notes from around the interweb:

• Delta makes clear to flight attendants that they cannot stop passengers from taking photos, or kick them off flights for doing so (except when the passenger is interfering with ‘safety and security’).

  In a new memo titled ‘Our approach to customer photos/videos,’ the airline says that following several recent incidents, “we’ve received a number of requests from employees asking Delta to prohibit photography taken without employee consent.”

  Delta says that it had “thoroughly reviewed” its policy on the subject and has come to the conclusion that, in most cases, flight attendants and other customer-facing staff cannot tell passengers to stop photographing or videoing them and that this is not reason in itself to boot someone from a flight.

• You serve yourself. You throw away your own paper and plastic. Someone puts out the food and restocks the buffet. They are paid a (non-tipped) wage for doing this. If you tip, the hotel can attract workers for lower pay.

  Why is a RI now expecting that we tip at the free breakfast?
  byu/lpcuut inmarriott

• South African Airways looking to sell a London Heathrow slot pair currently leased to Qatar Airways It was last appraised at $57 million.

• Only one bidder for privatization of Pakistan International Airlines

• Air India suspends ten cabin crew as room sharing rule triggers a row

• FBI agents immune from lawsuit over improperly placing Muslim men on No Fly List for refusing to become informants