News and notes from around the interweb:
- Delta Air Pilot Reassures Passengers That He’ll Get Them Safely To Their Destination As He Has 8 Chickens At Home To Look After
- Woman got violently attacked by a service dog in the Alaska Airlines Lounge (Seattle, N Gates) on Wednesday.
Asked the Alaska attendant if they called police, who replied “we contacted the proper authorities “.
I then called the security telephone line, which said “only The fire department was responding”… and that “if the police were needed, to talk to the attendant in the lounge.”
- Unsecured penguin caused helicopter crash (HT: Dennis)
- Stop it. Just stop it already.
@AmericanAir insisted there was no overhead room on our flight to Chicago. Had to check in to our final destination (Iraq). All my daughter toys and games in the bag. When I told the flight attendant there is plenty of room she said too late you already checked it in now. pic.twitter.com/IQ7dH3ST75
— Hussam (@JudokaHussam) April 10, 2025
- American Airlines takes it on the chin, losing gates at O’Hare they say the process was wrong, will they sue? They don’t want to lose the assets, even if they have largely ignored O’Hare flying until very recently. American’s loss is United’s gain. Meanwhile, Southwest gets their own gates instead of common-use, Delta, Alaska, Air Canada and JetBlue all lose. (HT: Matt B)
United’s trolling American at O’Hare.
byu/Tayo826 inamericanairlines
Chickens are good, fake service dogs are bad.
The entire “pet”/”service animal” situation is out of hand. Again more evidence of a society with toddler like adults.
At least the chickens were at home where they belong.
Now, where’s @Matt with his ‘consider Delta’ riff for this one. “For an airline whose pilots take the best care of their livestock…”
As for the helicopter with the penguin, I was surprised that Gary hasn’t mentioned the tragic helicopter incident in NYC yesterday. Sadly, when things go wrong, they don’t usually end well in those aircraft. Was literally walking outside around 3:15PM yesterday and heard an odd noise and a distant bang, only to learn later about what had happened on the Hudson. I feel for those victims and their families.
We need service animals to be certified as such by a veterinarian. Until then we’ll continue to have “service” dogs attack people unless we just have extremely punitive laws for attack by these creatures.
@jns – Are you speaking in a culinary sense?
Hahaha, Christian. I was not trying to make my response about food although I had thought of doing that sarcastically. A couple chickens I could consider being pets but eight sounds like a chicken dinner every once in a while. Having fed a flock of chickens for several months one summer (on break from college), I sympathize with the wife.