News and notes from around the interweb:

• Flying to Bangkok to take advantage of a mistake fare the airline says they aren’t going to honor. Umm…

• Why Southwest Airlines stopped overbooking (WSJ)

  

• Bombardier offered to custom-build a plane for United (shrinking their C-Series)

• Delta adding KIND bars as a snack option in economy

  

• United is paying $70 million over 15 years for naming rights to the LA Coliseum the richest naming deal in college football (beating out Alaska’s $41 million 10-year deal with the University of Washington). Intensely competitive hub markets spill over into intensely competitive sports naming deals. (HT: @airlinewriter)

• TSA Adding (T)housands (S)tanding (A)round: TSA is hiring more screeners to offset expected increases in the number of passengers going through checkpoints this summer. All they really need to do is redeploy useless ‘behavior detection officers’ to checkpoints, which they falsely claim to have already done. (They could also use more private contractors at the checkpoint, who have been shown to be more efficient.)

  

• Etihad will cease flying Airbus A340s in October

• Summer travel is expected to be up 4% to 234 million passengers (~ 2.5mm per day)