DoorDash Driver Crosses O’Hare Runways After Going the Wrong Way—How Did This Even Happen? [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • The DoorDash driver who took a wrong turn onto the tarmac at Chicago O’Hare.

  • What will the Capital One-Discover merger mean for miles and points? We really don’t know what’s going to happen beyond the broadest strokes that this should breathe a bit of life into the Discover processing network. Capital One has shared very little about their strategy.

    Until Discover reaches acceptance of Visa and Mastercard (including internationally) it seems unlikely that Capital One would switch over completely for their cards.  They might manage some sort of dual processing arrangement.  My guess is they lean even harder into unbranding the processing network on their physical cards than they already have. It’s impressive they’ve been able to accomplish that in their deals.
      
    Discover should eventually drive down their costs, but integration will take time (because of the scale and how heavily regulated banking is) and take a lot of up front investment.  As for what it means for miles and points, first it probably competes down interchange a bit for retailers as Discover works to attract more business, and my guess is that on net lower interchange supports somewhat lower rewards overall even if the specific mechanism for it is good for Capital One rewards.

  • At Uluwatu Temple in Bali monkeys have learned to steal from tourists and barter items back for food.

  • Reader Paul H. writes, “There so many fake airline videos going viral. Where do they get the sets? Well, here’s one.

  • Chill, people. Hawaiian Airlines: No one will lose their miles apparently there was a ton of consternation after a local website rewrote a post of mine on the end of certain opportunities from HawaiianMiles being folded into Mileage Plan this summer.

  • Cut. It. Out. Just stop this, airlines.

  • If your Etihad Guest account is hacked using your password they will not restore the miles.

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. *incoming* unnecessary animus towards Chicago (and it’s ‘people’) because (you know…)

  2. It’s unclear to me whether the monkey is “trading” or whether the tourist simply gave the monkey enough food that it wisely chose to drop the phone.

    Regardless, I would love to see a serious study exploring this,

  3. My guess is this poor driver was just trying to deliver to a pax in F who didn’t get their first meal choice.

  5. It’s called not being able to read English to understand where you’re going.

  6. Somebody at UA figured they could use DoorDash to provision flights in SFO. This was a test run.

    Re: moneys: “Regardless, I would love to see a serious study exploring this,” Researchers did used monkeys and tokens to see if they would adopt a medium of exchange. They could trade tokens for treats. The monkeys adopted it. They also plotted token heists. And, well, some females would require tokens from male monkeys for……. I’m not sure the latter observation was shared in research output.

  7. @George leave it to you to go right to most political, cultural divisive and uninformed POV. The fact that you assume that non-English speaking drivers are the only ones to struggle with turn-by-turn directions smacks of ignorance at best and blatant racism at worst. But, hey, you do you.

    Jokes aside, It’s very concerning to think about how a private vehicle found itself lining up with jet on the tarmac. This is a beyond concerning incident and further reflects just how much of an illusion airport security and hardening really is. Yet another example of why we need better balance between people, active security efforts and passive surveillance technology.

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