News notes from around the interweb:

• Here’s how to re-create your first class trip at home while you’re grounded.

  

• A reader who had recently status matched to Alaska Airlines’ MVP Gold 75K status “called [Wednesday] and they allowed .. to rescind the challenge with no penalty and back to automatic 75 when I call back to start.” Not a bad tip for someone in a similar position.

• Air Canada Aeroplan allows free cancellation of awards through March 31, pauses expiration of miles through May 14 and adds e-upgrades to elite accounts since many will expire unused.

• The American Airlines Paris team ‘au revoir’

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  Last Day,last video😥 #seeusoon #stronger #wewillbeback #emotion #aafamily #moment #instapic #instawork #instamoment

  A post shared by AA Team CDG (@american.airlinecdg) on Mar 19, 2020 at 4:00am PDT

• Something else that was always going to get delayed anyway that can now be blamed on the novel coronavirus? Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

  
  Credit: Muns, via Wikimedia Commons

• LAX oneworld business class lounge will close at the end of the month

• American Airlines is moving regional flying to in-house fully owned carriers, and Compass Airlines is going out of business.

  And now @Compassairlines is ceasing operations in April. Hang tight, family. This is not going to be fun. pic.twitter.com/dEQzd54222

  — Robbie Barnhart (@CaptainBobbie) March 19, 2020