News and notes from around the interweb:
- Points.com security vulnerability allowed awarding unlimited points to any member in almost any program of consequence (HT: Paul H)
- Passengers booked on American Airlines-coded flights operated by JetBlue for travel October 29 onward have been rebooked onto the JetBlue code for their flight, as part of the wind down of the Northeast Alliance.
- Here’s how the Southwest Airlines pilot union compares its member wages against newly-negotiated contracts at other major airlines. It’s not really reasonable to compare the top pay of a Southwest 737 captain against the top pay of a United or American 777 captain – since the 777 captain is more productive, they are flying more passengers. Southwest cannot pay as much to one person to fly 175 people as another airline pays to fly 304.
- Play the Green Card game to simulate what it’s like to immigrate to the United States.
- Russia’s Aeroflot now flying planes with no brakes
- How to optimize drinking coffee. This is a suggestion if keeping yourself awake without disturbing sleep is the primary goal.
Do you drink coffee?
Then pay attention.
You might be doing it incorrectly.
And you're missing out on key benefits and sabotaging your health in the process.
Here are 3 key rules you need to follow if you're a coffee drinker: pic.twitter.com/TRQCVFrN0R
— Ashley Richmond (@_AshleyRichmond) August 2, 2023
- JSX in neighborhood feud with American Airlines
- The Muir Autograph Collection claimed to be exempted from Bonvoy elite breakfast – and from the $100 benefits guarantee but I guess not.
Publicly shame Marriott enough and they can’t look the other way over non-compliant properties.
How is that a compliant breakfast offering? Shouldn’t the guest get to choose the breakfast? So toast with butter or a muffin is compliant?
@FNT Diamond – I think continental breakfast is the requirement although you often get a broader selection
Reading between the lines on Aeroflot, I don’t think that the planes do not have no brakes, but not a full set of brakes. This would result in uneven braking, longer distance to brake, or hotter brakes as the remaining brakes do more work. Of course, the remaining brakes will wear out faster from the extra work
A pilot isn’t paid to pay fly 175 people from one location to another. They are page to fly one plane from one location to another. The fact that a United or American plane has more people on it is Southwest’s problem, not the pilot’s. Unless you’re going to tell me the Southwest pilots are objecting to Southwest using bigger planes.
Additionally, there are other costs that Southwest is saving on with those smaller planes such as less fuel and fewer crew (and I would assume cheaper planes). So just as you say, it’s not fair to compare their wages when they’re flying fewer people. I say it’s not fair to compare how many people they’re flying without taking into account all of the other savings Southwest gets from that.
(not a pilot, just a person with logic)
@Sean, the airlines have traditionally been paying pilots more to fly larger aircraft. Perhaps the reason is that you’re responsible for more people onboard. Perhaps it’s because international long-haul flights are considered more challenging to operate. In any case, it’s been the norm, so the union should really be comparing themselves with the top pay for UA/AA/DL B737/A320 captains. My guess is that their current contract has lower rates for the narrowbody captains, too, but the difference is not quite as drastic.
They do seem to have a legitimate complaint about FO pay: the smallest aircraft is roughly the same capacity, yet the pay is $87/hr vs. $110/hr.