News and notes from around the interweb:
- Something good accomplished by TSA
JUST IN: @TSA officer, a former EMT, hailed as a hero after she jumped over a checkpoint conveyor belt to perform Heimlich on an infant who stopped breathing at @EWRairport checkpoint, saving the baby’s life. #TSAHolidayMiracle. The news release: https://t.co/J1yuT05ysw pic.twitter.com/3NfRD7lvPh
— Lisa Farbstein, TSA Spokesperson (@TSA_Northeast) December 23, 2021
- Her church must be funded by American Express? Then again both the Karl Marx credit card and Sex Pistols card were issued as Mastercards, so.
- US hotel occupancy is actually up compared to 2019 and revenue per available room up a whopping 20.2%. Furthermore “the 4-week average of the occupancy rate is now above the median rate for the previous 20 years”
- Southwest Introduces New Boarding Procedure Where Everyone Is Given A Melee Weapon And You Just Sort It Out Amongst Yourselves (satire)
- New frequent flyer board game
- Blac Chyna has thoughts on whether vaccines should be required for domestic air travel.
im glad black people in china are letting us know how they feel about domestic travel topics #ccpblm
Merry Christmas
I mean, probably lots of people who’ve overextended themselves with credit over the years have also imagined their credit cards were a demonic curse.
WAIT A SECOND! Read the article on hotels. In it there’s a graphic that shows occupancy rate by week of the year. It shows individual years and the 10-year average. SINCE ROUGHLY MAY 2021, HOTEL OCCUPANCY RATE HAS BEEN ABOUT ITS HISTORICAL AVERAGE. So, the hotel industry had a tough 14 months. But, for the past 7 months or so, things are roughly back to normal. And, yet, we still hear about the woes of property owners (and the garbage they pull). Wise up everyone.
@ Gary — I guess SHE didn’t get in on the SimplyMiles deal?
It’s not Mastercard that’s demonic, it’s the hotel industry.
Gary, please tell me you DON’T read the babylon bee!
It is the devils plaything…..
I heard Mastercard is moving their headquarters to the Denver airport now that they have been outed.
It would be great if the anticapitalist preachers rant was in English…..
The above doesn’t make up for the abuse tsa perpetrates on the public just like cops don’t get a pass for enforcing laws which criminalize personal freedom (nearly every law). TSA is complicit in civil asset forfeiture and the war on drugs. They can ignore it but they choose not to.
Visa would agree about MasterCard.