News and notes from around the interweb:
- Seat back entertainment matters no matter what American Airlines thinks (American is about to remove them from their legacy American Airbus A319s – the standard domestic fleet will eventually have none left).
Here, actress Jessica Chastain bought JetBlue business class seats for a cross country flight. Her seat back video didn’t work. And she’s not happy about it. She complained to the airline about it! They offered her a future travel credit of… $15. No, that is not enough.
Jessica Chastain flames budget airline JetBlue on Twitter over a non functioning in flight entertainment system
byu/Colordesert inFauxmoiShe appears to have deleted the tweet, because while complaining about airlines is popular a Hollywood actress complaining about the ordeal of business class doesn’t universally play well. The takeaway, though, is that this is a lucrative customer that airlines want and little things matter more than you expect.
- Allegiant’s resort:
The other side of the @Sunseeker harbor side. #milton surge and wave action. @StevePetyerak pic.twitter.com/SRzzBlqZAp
— Jim Cantore (@JimCantore) October 10, 2024
- Hyatt’s mass account closures in China because they were seeing the sort of scams being pulled with Marriott there.
- Redeem Qatar Airways Avios for private jet travel
- AI doesn’t to go potty though. If the pilot union argument against automation comes down to their members have irritable bowel syndrome I think they’re doomed in the long run.
- Air Canada Aeroplan status will now run through January 31, rather than ending December 31. That means an extra month of status validity.
- Seems like a questionable life choice, tbh.
Chinese female tourists and bloggers flock to Afghanistan and chill with the Taliban!
byu/sadlara inpics
I probably wouldn’t get the credit because I probably wouldn’t use the seatback entertainment system on any flight that JetBlue makes. I will have to see if I use their system when I fly in a few weeks. In other words, I find it much ado about nothing.
Jessica Chastain: Do you know who I am?!
Jet Blue: Do you know who we are?!
Ooooooo . An actress couldn’t watch television . What a loss .
Hopefully she was seated next to a voluble person who explained the structure of a leaf for 6 hours .
As an economist, the question I ask is how much would passengers be willing to pay for seatback entertainment if it were not offered. An alternative question, but not an equivalent one is by how much would the ticket price have to be reduced to make you indifferent between having no seatback entertainment. The answer to the second question is partially answered by the prices of the low cost carriers.
Ultimately, the airline should calculate these amounts, find their midpoint, add 10% as a goodwill gesture, and make that their offer. I don’t know, maybe $15 is correct; I don’t have the data.
@Raphael … “As an economist” , the question you might ask is : Why would anyone wish to fill their mind with horrible junk , free or not ?
Newton Minnow said it best when he termed television : “A vast wasteland” .
If she is that fabulous an actress, why the hell was she on B6??
Get a Biz jet!!
Too bad, I guess she wanted to use the entertainment system to watch a movie she’s never seen or hear of such as Interstellar, Molly’s game, etc
TV screen didn’t work.
“She appears to have deleted the tweet.” Good move. Nobody’s perfect and we all say something dumb once in a while. May we move on now?
TV screen didn’t work. (Jeremy Clarkson meme “Oh no! Anyway…”)
“She appears to have deleted the tweet.” Good move. Nobody’s perfect and we all say something dumb once in a while. May we move on now?
I, for one, stand with Ms. Chastain and applaud her effort to shame airlines for their paltry compensation for equipment and service failures! She should reinstate her post! All the haters can take a hike.
I say good on Jessican Chastain for calling Jetblue airbus out on their faulty stuff. They deserve this to happen