News and notes from around the interweb:
- Passengers forced to ‘go in bottles’ when all the lavs break on Bali – Brisbane flight
Still infinitely more enjoyable than a Jetstar flight pic.twitter.com/SxjCAqknWz
— Travel in 2025 (@AusTravelDaily) August 29, 2025
Delta passengers have been told the same thing and so have American Airlines Hawaii passengers.
- Hawaiian Supreme Court slams hotels for keeping worker tips, misleading guests
- We need this on Las Ramblas in Barcelona.
Americans fixing the pickpocketing issue one person at a time pic.twitter.com/rsivBQgCuc
— Ichigo Niggasake (@SomaKazima2) August 26, 2025
- It took 3 years, but the Department of Transportation has given final approval to SkyWest Charter. That’s really what launched the whole kerfuffle over scheduled charter operators (like JSX). The Biden administration simply sat on the SkyWest application, that was 100% legal, but ALPA didn’t like it. Unions were complaining, and both SkyWest and JSX are non-union.
Ultimately, the Department of Transportation found that all of the objections to SkyWest Charter amounted to ‘the law should be different’ not ‘SkyWest Charter fails to meet its obligations under the law’. ALPA wants it to be more expensive and time-consuming to become a pilot, limiting the number of pilots, and driving up wages as a result.
That’s bad for small communities who can’t fill large jets, because a $200,000 a year pilot doesn’t pencil flying 9- or 19-seat planes. That’s bad for safety because (as DOT observes), limiting small community air service pushes people into cars which have much higher fatality rates. And it’s bad for safety, because it means talented people who would otherwise become pilots don’t. The average talent level of the pilot pool falls.
- Southwest Airlines begins flying first plane with secondary cockpit barrier
Southwest Airlines begins flying first plane with secondary cockpit barrier
byu/senpahII inaviation - “Premium”
Delta Airlines First Class Experience
byu/New_Profession516 indelta - People don’t like paying bag fees.
FLASH | Nice : refus de payer un supplément bagages ➝ le différend dégénère en bagarre à l’aéroport. Un couple en partance pour Mykonos a été interpellé après l’altercation filmée avec un agent. (Nice Matin) pic.twitter.com/Qjvn4GLxYe
— Cpasdeslol (@cpasdeslol_X) August 29, 2025
Re:shocks to pickpockets. American ingenuity— this is what makes the US the best country on Earth.
I don’t know if this event even deterred the pickpocket in question later, but my dad told me of walking Paris once (he was in his late 60’s early 70’s at the time). He always wore a sports jacket and kept his wallet in his inside jacket pocket. As he was walking, he felt something in his back pants pocket, reached back and grabbed what turned out to be a young (18-20 y.o.) man’s wrist and as he turned around, wound up lifting the young man off of his feet (my dad was 6’3″ and very strong even before he got his “old man strength”). The man’s eyes were bugging out and dad was pretty sure he saw some wetness forming on his pants, so he dropped him and let him run off. While it probably didn’t stop him or the others from continuing to pickpocket, I’m sure no one who saw it tried to pickpocket my dad again.
Porter has had this problem a lot… i recently was on Porter when only a single one was working for a 6 hour transcon….i had to pee in a bottle.
This is why I prefer Qantas.. they ‘never lost a plane,’ and the toilets usually work… now, where’s @Jack the Ladd, because, after all, it was a Bali flight!
Really? Requiring pilots to have a mere 2 years worth of experience before carrying paying passengers is bad?
It’s so hard to comprehend. Even run of the mill doctors have far more experience than that (residency is 3 to 7 years).
You should probably work for Boeing’s MCAS marketing division. Obviously you don’t care about safety (don’t you have kids? Would you book them on a commercial flight where the pilots have 2 weeks’ worth of experience?)
Pickpockets in the USA have a much higher chance of sudden missing teeth or lead poisoning.