New and notes from around the interweb:
- Google Fi unlimited call, text, data from $45/line per month domestic and international.
- Fighting back against the absurd (and long-standing) American Airlines practice of waking up the entire business class cabin an hour before arrival to collect headphones.
First world anarchist. pic.twitter.com/tMV5Tjypsm
— You Had One Job (@_youhadonejob1) September 17, 2019
- Emirates will add a champagne lounge to their Dubai Concourse B first class lounge, an upgraded version of their business class champagne feature.
- Washington National’s ‘Project Journey’ faces delays. Eventually you’ll go through a massive security checkpoint instead of security for each pier, and gate 35X becomes a new concourse (that will allow American to upgauge to larger regional jets).
- Will REAL ID be a Y2K-like disruption for surprised air travelers? There seems to be better than even odds that the government will push back their October 2020 data to require REAL ID-compliant licenses at checkpoints since it’s mere weeks before the Presidential election.
I use my own Bose headphones. How many people have sweated into the headphones provided by the airlines. Take a sniff of one. Yuck.
I always bring my own headphones and entertainment so no matter what happens I am prepared for whatever happens.
LH pulls that crap on into flights as well. I use my own and typically toss them into a bin when I sit down. I’ve had FAs dig through bins trying to find mine, not sure why they’re so concerned. I also don’t understand why LH prepares the cabin for landing at 20-30k feet as opposed to 10k feet like other North American carriers. It’s very annoying.
LH has to follow orders or else… ! Don’t forget it’s German, rules apply ! Faster turnaround after landing…FA’s want to leave…
Speaking of headphones, I may be looking for a deal on some noise cancelers soon, hopefully comfy enough to sleep in, any recommendations/deals? I could always wait for black Friday.
Was very annoyed when AA collected their noise-canceling headphones (now B&O) about an hour before landing on a recent flight. Had 15 minutes left in the movie. Extra annoying as this was a 767 with tablets only. Those were collected at the same time so I couldn’t finish the movie with my own earphones.
Delta woke me up 30 minutes into a 10 hour flight asking me if I wanted coffee. I wanted to murder the flight attendant. Of course, I couldn’t fall back asleep
@bhcompy
There should be a “Don’t wake me for food or Drink hat/mask/sign, especially for those up front. (people like me in the economy aisle will still have to let our fellow poors out.)
Interesting how Twitter thinks the headphone photo is “sensitive material”.
KLM worse than LH or AA when serving breakfast on red eyes TWO HOURS before arrival and force-waking everyone up in the Dutch terror manner