News and notes from around the interweb:
- Gay Catholic Flight Attendant Fired By United Airlines After Telling a Coworker That People Can’t Change Their Sex Raises Enough Money to Sue Airline
Sanchez told his coworker that he believes marriage can only be between a man and a woman and that a person is unable to change his or her sex. The conversation, the lawsuit claims, was in low voices and out of earshot of passengers.
…United Airlines started to comb through Sanchez’s social media account for other evidence and later selected 35 posts from his X account that it claimed proved Sanchez lacked dignity, respect and professionalism. …United relied upon represented just 0.02% of his history on X (formally Twitter).
- Chase is offering a 30% bonus on transfers to Virgin Atlantic through February 17. I wouldn’t jump on it (and give up the flexibility to transfer elsewhere later) unless you have a specific near-term redemption.
Virgin Atlantic Clubhouse Washington Dulles - Here’s one I’ve never seen before.
While @garyleff's latest post features a hotel charging $150 for towels, that's nothing compared to the Kasa Niche Redwood City charging $25.97 for nothing at all.
Predatory and confusing to novice travelers.
"No impact on your available funds"? Helluva way to say they're gone! pic.twitter.com/VP20qMzfLa
— Real Bilt Member (@1x_PointsOnRent) February 2, 2025
- Marriott’s move into Mendocino brings out the worst in local residents though that’s not how SFGate frames the story.
- Air France KLM Flying Blue Promo Awards have been quite weak for awhile, and this month there are no business class offerings between the U.S. or Canada and Europe at all… you’ll find 25% off coach redemptions like Denver, Boston, Houston and New York JFK, though.
- Amex is offering a 15% bonus on transfers to Avianca Lifemiles through February 28. I just transferred some Bilt points with their one-day 100% bonus offer on Saturday.
- With Lufthansa in control, Italy’s ITA Airways plans move from SkyTeam, entering Star Alliance in the first half of 2026.
I hope Sanchez wins.
C’mon man! We all know that some women have penises and men can give birth. United is just standing up for the truth….right????
CDW for hotel rooms.
United fires employee for not denying reality. Take part in the mass delusion or else.
Terrific
More culture war BS rather than stories actually relating to travel
Did the co worker complain to United about what Sanchez said? Whether you agree with someone or not its never a good idea to express views on certain topics to co workers. In this case I don’t think Sanchez should be fired. His opinion is his opinion. But he did himself no favor by expressing to someone that may have taken offense (and yes I get the Karen aspect of it) and ran to company HR.
A lot of gay people hate the trans people as the trans people are really just pretenders that are trying to steal all the work gay people did to gain rights.
the trans people are trying to do the same thing with black people and civil rights act. It’s also why most black people can’t stand them
It’s kind of funny that he’s as gay as can be and he’s still not buying this bullshit.
On Real Bilt Member’s post, when I read ‘nothing at all’ I couldn’t help but think of Ned Flanders.
Upon reading the salacious title of this post, I already knew that @Andy S and @Mantis would be here hatin’ yet again. You two ‘doth protest too much, methinks.’
@CHRIS I suppose that is ironic, though you can almost always find a few outliers and contrarians. Most decent people show solidarity and support for others who are attacked.
I’m with you on this one @George N Romey–keep it to yourself while on the job, don’t wear ‘flair’ because those ‘watermelons’ and ‘rainbows’ definitely make you a target. Give up socials, too.
These are tough days if don’t conform to an unnecessary cultural dogma and hierarchy. Hoping for greater tolerance and mutual respect–maybe that’s idealistic and naive–still worth it to me.