Dirty Dr. Pepper And Pink Drink: Southwest Flight Attendant Shares Her Go-To Orders—“Put Me To Work” [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb:

• Southwest Airlines flight attendant suggests creative drink orders for your next flight:

  @danimogo3 #fyp #flightattendant #flightcrew ♬ growth – Gede Yudis

  She suggests: Pink drink. Sprite, cranberry juice + 2 creamers; Airplane mochas. hot chocolate packet with coffee and one creamer; Dirty Dr. Pepper with creamer and lime packet; Mimosa cranberry; Coke with cranberry juice and lime packet.

  And she further encourages you to do it ‘put me to work, keep me entertained’ on 3+ hour flights:

  @danimogo3 please don’t flame me #fyp #flightattendant #flightcrew ♬ original sound – dani | flight attendant ✈️

• Why is the sale of Pakistan’s national airline stirring a political storm? I hadn’t realized the Pakistani military gets to own a piece. (HT: Paul H)

• Website tracks restaurants eligible for Sapphire Reserve $150 credit and collects datapoints where people say they were reimbursed for online gift card purchases.

  They say ‘be your own data point’ and before I used my dining credit I tried a de minimis gift card amount at a local restaurant where the owners have several other restaurants in town that aren’t part of the program, and the ToastTab gift card purchase did not reimburse because it turns out that it processes as a restaurant group charge, rather than as the eligible restaurant.

• From the Saturday night schedule load, noting that April should be firm but summer can still shift, here’s the current plan for American Airlines premium aircraft in summer 2026:

  American Airlines routes with new aircraft in Summer 2026:

  Airbus A321XLR:

  • Up to 5 daily JFK-SFO
  • Up to 4 daily BOS-LAX, JFK-LAX
  • 1 daily EDI-JFK

  787-9 Premium:

  • 3 daily LHR-ORD
  • 2 daily LHR-JFK, LHR-PHL
  • 1 daily LHR-LAX, LHR-DFW

  — Ishrion Aviation (@IshrionA) December 28, 2025

• Disney has priced itself out of bounds for most Americans. And that’s a problem, because if they become less relevant that could mean fewer customers for their films and merch, too.

  This is how expensive Disney really is.pic.twitter.com/DlqXzBS1uS

  — (news) DOGE (@DOGE__news) December 27, 2025

• Rakuten‘s $50 referral offer ends 12/31. Rakuten is an online shopping portal that earns points or cash back for the purchases you make anywhere, akin to the mileage malls that work with airlines like American, United, Alaska, et al. You can choose between cash back, Amex points or Bilt points ($50 is worth 5,000 points – with Bilt, at least for the near future.)

  The easy, quick win before this offer is just to go to GiftCards.com through the portal and buy a $50 gift card for Uber, DoorDash, Southwest Airlines or Delta. You get $50 or equivalent points back, making this a free $50 (or better, since the points are worth more than $50).