News and notes from around the interweb:
- Eurowings flight attendant won $1 million during a break in her training (HT: John P)
- African Development Bank: How Ethiopian Airlines Succeeded (HT: Marginal Revolution)
- VietJet ‘the bikini airline’ drops the bikini approach and instead creates the most amazing video Fly for Love which has been viewed over 10 million times. (HT: One Mile at a Time)
- 1000 miles for linking a United Visa to the United MileagePlus X app (HT: Joe Brancatelli)
- The TSA has no business whatsoever counting this artist’s cash at the checkpoint. It’s not illegal to carry as much cash as you want on a domestic flight without declaring it. And cash is in no way a threat to aircraft. Of course the passenger got lucky because despite all that the government can take any cash it finds anyway. Maybe they were just jealous of getting paid?
- Russian air traffic controllers ordered pizzas for their US counterparts during the government shutdown.
That 3m43s Vietjet ad was about 3m33s too long.
More trash.
Cute. To entertain a 5 year old….
Would have been better if they were in bikinis!
TSA counting cash…….
Anyone who travels a lot should have concluded by now that TSA effectively pimps for the DEA (try packing supplements for a lengthy trip) and, likely, the treasury. I travel between the US and UK quite a lot and carry ziplok bag of UK coins (there is no one pound note any more) which are variously required for parking, the use of public restrooms, etc. If one thing gets my carry-on pulled for search it’s those coins. I suppose they want to make sure I don’t have a bag of dangerous gold dubloons….
BTW though, common sense would dictate *not* toting such a wad of cash. To any LE officer this is like waving a bone before a hungry dog and inviting the to steal it, oh sorry, mistyped, I meant seize it from you.
The story about a German FA winning a million Euros was entirely in German, as were the posted comments! WTF Gary! You seem to be having a mental meltdown today!
Why, what an infectious tune!
Thank heavens for tetracycline.
The TSA turd was just looking for an opportunity to swipe a few hundred dollars. Wouldn’t be the first time.