News and notes from around the interweb:
- Lufthansa is shuffling senior management, trying to fix lagging customer satisfaction
- Not something you like to see.
Russian UTAir Boeing 737 with 19kg of radioactive material was forced to make an emergency landing https://t.co/HvWummoyxd
— AIRLIVE (@airlivenet) December 12, 2023
- Kevin Mitchell, known for his travel advocacy (Business Travel Coalition), has passed away two days shy of his 78th birthday.
- Airbnb host used fake screenshots of WhatsApp conversation to report her
@ohmarni I really dont think airbnb is worth it anymore #airbnb #airbnbexperience #storytime ♬ original sound – Oh Marni - Truth.
- Vintage Krug 2004 Champagne is making a comeback on Singapore Airlines flights in First Class and Suites this week for the first time in four years as a festive special, while the Grand Cuvée will happily be restored as a regular option from January 2024.
Click bait, “radioactive materials” can be anything from extremely low level uranium ores to exceptionally lethal nuclear waste…none of which can turn into a bomb without processing, incidentally. But the very term scares people. The Russians were probably stupid to move this material around in a passenger aircraft anyway–they do have an extensive rail network–and given the problems with their aviation industry this was doubly so. But from the limited information it doesn’t sound like an end of the world scenario either.
@drrichard:
Given what else I’ve seen about this it was probably very, very hot. No bomb potential but if the plane had gone down in an inhabited area it would have been a problem.