News and notes from around the interweb:
- Wine in a can is coming to an airport near you! (Just don’t try to drink your BYO booze onboard.)
- Apparently cheeseburgers come in cans, too.
- Delta’s bold-faced distortions about air traffic control
- Airline-airport speed dating
- Virgin America is offering a 50% points bonus on flights booked and flown July 6 through August 31. Registration required.
- Drunk grandma accused seatmate of being member of ISIS. Remind me why airlines serve alcohol again?
- La Quinta’s co-brand credit card has a 45,000 point signup offer. I recall reading the story of how the chain got its name in the autobiography of Southwest Airlines’ founding President Lamar Muse.
…to furnish his inns [founder Sam Barshop] had gone to the Furniture Mart in Dallas and found that Mexican-style furniture was the least expensive. To match the furnishings, his inns had to have a Mexican-sounding name, and he came up with La Quinta, just because it sounded cute…
In the case of grandma, she was serving herself!
La Quinta’s founder was Sam Barshop, not Bishop.