News and notes from around the interweb:
- I would not put up this sign on my hotel announcing which airline’s crew stays there (I won’t be mentioning the hotel). There’s also a sign inside for dedicated check-in. There are some places where the contract requires separate crew check-in, to avoid lines behind other guests. The way to do this is a “Crew Check-In” sign, not “Welcome SQ Girls!”
The concern that Delta’s plan to tell customers the first names of their crew being somehow unsafe was manufactured outrage. This, though, seems like not the best idea?
- Southwest has 40 planes parked due to lack of pilots “This explains why they are in no hurry on redeyes. Why fly redeyes if you can’t fly your planes when the sun’s still out.”
- Ukranian low cost carrier SkyUp granted right to fly to the U.S. in record time.
- BMO completes its acquisition of Air Miles
- Oy: Remains of Irishman were accidentally left on plane at Dublin Airport and sent back to Greece
- Thai Airways is looking to order 30 new widebody aircraft plus Airbus A321neos for its Thai Smile subsidiary.
FYI the top left corner of the banner shows the hotel name lol
I think Starlux should probably be embarrassed for the public to find out that their crew hotel is the Doubletree in El Segundo.
The funny thing on that picture is that they want to write the Chinese translation of Bon Voyage, but they couldn’t type the words right, and normally Chinese characters won’t be placed in that manner after all (should have been in single row as it is a single phrase).
And they’re using simplified Chinese script to greet crew from Taiwan?
Everyone makes a big fuss about where the crews spend the night. Hello, they parade around in their uniforms, so it isn’t difficult to figure who is crew. A sign that says welcome such and such airline, doesn’t really matter, when the hotel lobby is teeming with airline employees in uniform…
I’ve been at hotels with placards at the check-in desks announcing specific procedures for crew of certain airlines. Also, this doesn’t really seem that different than hotels putting up signs or using digital screens announcing what conferences or events they are holding. If someone is creepy enough to drive around to different hotels looking for clues of what flight crews stay there, they’d probably instead just take the simpler route and tail them from the airport when, as noted above, they all parade into their shuttles in full uniform
Starlux. Sounds like a vacuum cleaner name is there a deluxe also