News and notes from around the interweb:
- Garish, or Star Spangled Awesome?
Freedom One! — @SouthwestAir new livery in celebration of 50 years of giving people the freedom to fly!
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|#planespotting #spotting #SanJose #SouthwestAirlines #FreedomOne #takeoff #livery #getoutside @getolympus pic.twitter.com/lfxF2q00Ds— (@gankp) August 9, 2021
- In banking, the personal is political.
[T]his paper demonstrates that political values shape depositor behavior. I find that, following the 2018 Parkland shooting, banks that financed firearms manufacturers experienced significant decreases in deposit growth. These antigun depositor movements were stronger in counties with higher Democrat shares and for more Republican-leaning banks. Banks that implemented antigun policies also experienced substantial reductions in deposit growth, but these pro-gun depositor movements were stronger in counties with higher Republican shares. These divergent depositor movements suggest that conflicting political values between banks and depositors lead to depositor movements.
- Delta million miler kits are pretty attractive.
Received this from @Delta. 4,000,000 miles is about the equivalent of 8 round trips to the moon. #AdobeLife pic.twitter.com/U0VsO2sBFv
— Ben Forta (@benforta) August 9, 2021
- Singapore Changi loses world’s best airport crown to Qatar’s Hamad International Airport oh come on. Doha is a good airport, and I love the architectural elements of the al Safwa lounge. But it doesn’t come close in food or entertainment to what Singapore offers.
- United and Frontier pilots see a bargaining opportunity in vaccine mandates while Hawaiian Airlines mandates vaccines for US-based employees by November 1.
- The latest move in Southwest’s lawsuits against Skiplagged and Kiwi.com. These two sites aside, Southwest’s position is that their schedules and prices are so proprietary and secret that they..
publish them on the internet. Website terms and conditions have been made too powerful as a tool to restrict access to publicly-available information, make no mistake Southwest is the bad guy here (and ultimately Kiwi.com is inconsequential).
uh huh. (Both).
Changi being largely closed may have impacted the rankings.
Not a fan of our Republics National Flag being misappropriated AS A PROP to provide credence to commercial entities or presence and legitimacy to nefarious acts, domestic terrorists and illegitimate acts against our Republic. Too many have served and paid the ultimate price in defense of our Nations Flag to have it used as a commercial cheap prop.
@ Gary — My SO received the same (albeit 2 MM) kit a few days ago. While nice, I question the expense by Delta. I would rather have hot meals in F.
hmm Singapore or Qater, can’t quite decide where I’d go first to get my human rights violated
Garish as a French railway station!
If they can put their dumb rainbow flag on a plane why not the Star Spangled banner? At least that flag stands for something noble.
“Proud to be an American”….beautiful plane. A keeper.
SWA has a lot of “Patriot” Pilots (I know one, a Q anon devotee if his support of Marjorie Taylor Green is any indication, that says he is willing to protect the border himself with his AK 47)….sad that the American flag has been hijacked to be symbol of some very nutty people in this country.
I question if SWA is making a “freedom” statement in this way as tacit support for the Governors of Texas and Florida, two of their largest markets.
Red, white, and blue. Those colors don’t run, but they sure can fly. 🙂
If you live in the United States and don’t like the flag or the country or the people that started the country please leave so we can let in more people who actually want to live in the Greatest country in human history
@JOJO
*applause*
And, if you’re going to leave the country, please fly with us on United!
Guessing the USWNT won’t flying on that plane anytime soon.
@John. You are thinking too much and making conspiracy theories at the same time rejecting a conspiracy theory organization.
@anon. You should try both Singapore and Doha. My vote is Singapore to live in again as I am good with not chewing gum.
That SWA plane is so beautiful I had to stand up and salute when I saw it.
“dumb rainbow flag”
Really Joe, evolve!
@joe ‘dumb rainbow flag’
Evolve!