News and notes from around the interweb:
- Hate crimes.
@united serving this as a first class meal is nothing short of a HATE CRIME if I wanted this pile of slop I would’ve gone to FEDERAL PRISON pic.twitter.com/zPaXXb0h7q
— maddie taber (@maddietaber) June 24, 2025
- Watch the Wild Moment Thai Police Drag UK Tourist Off Lion Air Flight After Aisle Seat Meltdown
NEW: Overweight man wearing a Garfield shirt gets dragged off a plane after demanding he get an emergency exit seat due to his weight.
The definition of a man-child right here.
The man was reportedly from the UK and threw a tantrum on his flight departing from Bangkok when… pic.twitter.com/oLyzabhhJx
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 26, 2025
- Cool.
A Boeing 787 popping a wheelie is something you don't see every day.
: FlightFocus365 pic.twitter.com/w9Zywb5Ryu— Turbine Traveller (@Turbinetraveler) June 26, 2025
- New Qantas seats have no entertainment screens Doug Parker is retired from American Airlines, but he’s a board member at Qantas…
- Thailand is funding 50% of domestic trips for its citizens in move to prop up tourism sector. (Skift)
- The backpack wasn’t going to fit in the containment bag, but water bottles versus fire extinguisher is an interesting choice here.
- Uber working on a deal with ousted co-founder Travis Kalanick to acquire self-driving car company Pony.ai Kalanick was ousted from Uber 8 years ago, and since then the service has significantly squeezed both drivers and riders, and generally become a much worse experience. It’s also sold its own self-driving program and given up on bigger ambitions like its own digital currency.
hope United sue that guy for slandering. He shouldn’t have had to eat or fly on United at all.
@Don G — And hope that guy sues you for defamation, since we’re just ‘sayin’ things that won’t happen’ here.
Is that UA meal the cheese enchilada? Presentation aside, those are actually one of the better meals on UA.
I have not flown Thai Lion Air but I have flown the somewhat similar Thai Air Asia. On Thai Air Asia, you can upgrade to an exit row seat for a very reasonable additional fee. The flight attendants keep those who haven’t paid the fee out of those seats. I have paid the fee several times and I will continue if the seats are available at a reasonable fee. I expect that Thai Lion Air has a similar fee. The British guy was just being cheap. I’m glad that they dragged him off of the airplane.
By the way, I love durian so Matthew Klint’s threat of a durian diet is no threat to me.
United’s first class/Polaris business meals/cheap wines are awful…. When will they realize this?
@Jd — Watch out, @Don G will threaten you with a libel lawsuit. Maybe he works for United; or, he just gets-off on the idea of frivolous lawsuits. Either way, sounds like more money for lawyers! Yay…