News and notes from around the interweb:
- One in four travelers claim to have been duped by fake hotel booking sites I really have a hard time believing it’s that high, even seeing what I see each week of travelers who fly less than once a year.
- Shocking video of a man being executed by a police officer in an Arizona hotel. The officer was acquitted despite the video.
- Are corporate jets a waste of money?
- 17 year old Indian actress says she was molested on an Air Vistara domestic flight. (HT: Khalil D.)
- The UAE’s Civil Aviation Authority conducted an assessment of Pakistan International Airlines and what they found is troubling
Boeing 777 on Approach to New York JFK in 2014, Copyright zhukovsky / 123RF Stock Photo - Meanwhile on a Gol flight a man did something to his seatmate while she slept and here’s how he tries to explain it away, he claims “he suffered a coughing fit and ‘accidentally spat’ on her.” (HT: Point Me to the Plane)
- Not the Onion: “Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, United Airlines Showcase the Passenger Experience at Washington Dulles International Airport” The writer is impressed by United’s old 787 business class because it “had the ability to lie-down flat and were laid out in a 2-2-2 formation.”
Washington Dulles - TSA are the happiest Smurfs of Christmas, they get all the presents
The @TSA hates Christmas. Took me damn near a hour to wrap this. pic.twitter.com/baoRmoe7Vp
— Derek Fry (@Derek_the_Fry) December 24, 2016
correct :
“The offer was acquitted despite the video.”
I cannot figure out how a law enforcement agency issues a badge without observing how a cadette responds to this predictable situation in a written, verbal, and physical simulation.
One strike, and you start the program from the beginning.
In the video, the ‘officer’ told the subject to move according to his instructions, and then shot him for moving.
Had he simply told him to lay face down with his arms stretched out, at the start, instead of badgering him psychology until he made a wrong move, this would have been a simple arrest.
The number one command a police officer has is Freeze or Stop, not ‘do the hokie pokie or I will shoot.’ Otherwise the use of deadly force is difficult to justify. The body camera does not help this officers argument or the departments defense against a wrongful death lawsuit.
The lead-off article (hotel “scams”) is a bit misleading; it states that one in four “reported booking on what they thought was a hotel website, only to find later it was another site”. This is not a scam; they are almost certainly referring to the 3rd-party OTA pop-unders that arise when browsing TA, Priceline, etc. A “scam” is fraud, not an advertisement for a booking service.
That being said, I agree that the surprising fact is that so many people don’t know who they’re giving their information to – as the travel-obsessed, we often forget just how little the “average” (remember that ~90% once a year figure with AA?) traveler knows.
It took someone a HOUR to wrap a damned book? TSA hijinx nevertheless, that is SLOW!
Cops are totally out of control these days! Judge, jury, and executioner. THIS is why even good, law-abiding people don’t care anymore when a cop gets shot…. the more the better!
I am hearing that all foodstuffs will need to come out of the bag at screening, and be screened separately starting Jan 1. Is this true?