News and notes from around the interweb:
- This is bigger for Uber Eats, where picking up multiple deliveries compensates for the reduced pay Uber offers.
Blackmarket for illegal Uber accounts is real
byu/ExposureBuck inuberdrivers - The insane way TSA says they’re going to start enforcing REAL ID
- What’s grosser than gross
- Interesting discussion of Qantas and why aircraft heavy maintenance takes so long
- Passenger asks American Airlines the difference between aircraft types, and their answer? Less legroom for everyone!
Hello there! Our A321 has less pitch in the seating from First Class cabin to Main Cabin, has six fewer seats total and holds 96 fewer bags in the overhead bins. The neo aircraft has AC/USB power ports at all seats which the regular A321 doesn't offer.
— americanair (@AmericanAir) January 15, 2025
- United Airlines flight returns to O’Hare after hitting coyote during takeoff (HT: Cheryl)
It is not an “insane” way that TSA is going to enforce REAL ID. What’s insane is the people who run that site you link who believe showing any sort of ID to do anything is illegal. Sovereign citizen much?
TSA is proposing that it has some leeway in applying REAL ID requirements after the May deadline. So it is not an “all or nothing” approach. This allows them to accept non-compliant IDs for travel for a period of time or a number of instances – like you show up to a checkpoint and are not compliant. Rather than just turning you away, you’re logged as being told you have 90 days and then that ID won’t be accepted any longer for air travel. Otherwise they just say NO and that’s that.
It doesn’t change the “No ID” process which involves additional screening and the need to verify additional information to basically prove who you are without having an ID. Presenting an expired ID is legally not the same as presenting no ID. It would be better to walk up to TSA and say you don’t have an ID (well, rather tell the airline first at check in). However in that case they’ll look at other items you present and ask various questions to verify identity versus their databases.
In mid and late May, I will still be using my real “non-REAL ID” ID to fly domestically on common carrier flights. The TSA can go pound sand.
Re having multiple Uber accounts, as a customer I don’t care. Why not let people maximize their pickups as long as they deliver them timely?
It never occurred to me that Uber deliverers would be limited to one order at a time. Isn’t it more efficient and less congestion-causing if one person picks up a few orders at a time along the same stretch? No wonder I see six people waiting for orders in the same restaurant so often.