News and notes from around the interweb:
- FAA rule may deflate Albuquerque’s image as balloon capital
The Federal Aviation Administration now requires aircraft using certain airspace – including most of what’s above Albuquerque – to have specific tracking technology. The problem? Balloons don’t have it, nor have federal regulators provided standards for how to incorporate it
- Now this is silly claims you should never stay on anything but the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of any hotel. You should never eat raw cookie dough, either. Some sense of comparison of risks would help here, I think. And the advice not to ‘reserve anything other’ than these floors gives the booking engines of major hotel chains way too much credit. (HT: Tommy L)
- Via Paul H who offers, “I, for one, accept our new front desk robot overlords”
- Masks for thee, but not for me “Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen West will not be prosecuted over his involvement in an altercation over face masks at DFW International Airport last year”
West said he was walking through an airport terminal on Nov. 3 maskless when a man called him an idiot for not wearing a face covering. DFW, like all airports, requires passengers to wear a mask over their nose and mouth while walking through terminals.
This morning at the airport a man starts yelling at me and tells me to put my mask on and calls me an idiot. I walked over to him and asked if he called me an idiot, he continued to yell at me. I pulled down his mask and said see, nothing happened. pic.twitter.com/8TrbQufECL
— Allen West (@AllenWest) November 3, 2021
- “You don’t want the hotel the airline will give you during irregular ops, #7,652”
@AmericanAir our flight was delayed out of IAD yesterday because of a problem with the brakes. As soon as we landed in Charlotte NC my phone notified me that AA had a hotel for me and my husband. Perfect, until We get to the hotel and it was disgusting and obviously a drug hotel pic.twitter.com/wRTnyPiAkW
— Leslie Dehaven (@LeslieDehaven71) February 21, 2022
- Maui Seaside Hotel to become a Hilton
- Passengers consumed nearly 38 tons of brisket and 1.5 million tacos at the @AUStinAirport in 2021, with November and December surpassing 2019 traffic levels.
Robot front desk person: “I cannot process your input. Please rephrase”
Person: “The room is not what was promised.”
Robot: “Do you want a room change? Here is what we have.”
Person: “No, I was promised a suite.”
Robot: “Do you want a room change? Here is what we have.”
Etc.
Follow up article: thousands of Austin Airport customers suffer heart attacks.
Gary, worried about you. That picture of you from the 2019 Freddie’s showed you being quite hefty. I can see why you enjoy first class but please, get healthy, I enjoy your blog too much…..
The robots are touchable!!??
That’s going to be a problem…..
Of course nothing happened to Allen West. He’s a republican. It’s a republican state. GOD help us all who are not devil worshipping republicans…..
Allen West doesn’t support the mask mandate at the airport so he’s not being hypocritical. It’s like the video I was just watching of people “outside” in the streets of Kharkov Ukraine wearing paper surgery masks while being invaded by Russia. It’s misguided fear.
I find it funny that Jorge Paez calls on God to protect him from Republicans who are the ones who support freedom of religion, are against killing babies via abortion, etc. Maybe it’s just bitterness because that Biden vote isn’t going too well so far.
Gary, I typically eye roll at a lot of your commentary… but today, today you win for the Simpsons reference.
Demokkkrats booed God and cheered for infanticide…. and Republicans are supposed to be “devil worshipers”… LOL, OK, Karen.
WTF….. *rolleyes*
@DaninMCI
Hey Danny boy how would you like to get a bullet in your head while not wearing a mask?
Would it make any difference?
@Rog
I never wear a mask…. are you going to threaten me as well? Why don’t you come to my house and do something about it, if you have stones, tough guy.
@Harry Balszak
You need to read Danny Boy’s comment then maybe your brain will be able to understand my reply.
I don’t fight fools!!!!!!!
@Rog
I did and your comment could have been taken a couple different ways…. perhaps I should have NOT assumed the worst but since mask Nazis are VERY violent and unrepentant, shame on YOU for not being clear.
@Harry Balszak
Harry, get a life. I don’t have a criminal record, nor would I vote for the criminal Chump as he turned me, a life-long Republican away from the GOP and now I am a proud Independent. Be sure you vote for Chump in 24. Oh, when’s the last time you flew on a commercial airline without a mask? People want to know.