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News and notes from around the interweb:
- JetBlue’s policy is not to overbook flights. So why have involuntary denied boardings jumped over forty-fold year-over-year?
- Why vacation rentals are key to Wyndham’s strategy
- British Airways parent IAG planning to launch new low cost transatlantic airline out of Barcelona with flights to Los Angeles and San Francisco as early as June. In other words, “Vueling, but long haul.” Because, Norwegian.
- Inside the remodeled American Airlines D-15 Admirals Club in Miami. With the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite™ Mastercard® you not only get a club membership, you can actually get lounge access for up to 33 people at a time.
- An argument that MH370 was brought down by a windshield heater fire (HT: Marginal Revolution) My non-expert view for two years has been electrical fire as best fit for the facts but many many people know more about this than I do.
- Drunk Russian smashes his car through the Kazan International Airport in Tatarstan, and drives around, in order to ‘fight for love’. He received a 15 day jail sentence. In the U.S. he’d already be dead. (HT: One Mile at a Time)
Based on personal experience, KZN could use the remodel.
IAG is already turning BA into a low cost carrier lol!
Not buying the windshield heater theory. When the FBI investigated Shah’s home flight simulator, he had practiced flying the same path into the southern Indian ocean and tried to delete it. case closed.
Mike S, do you have first hand facts on that? There has been rumor about the FBI theory, but we saw how competent they were with Hilary’s server so I would say their credibility and competence is that of a pre-schooler trying to colour within the lines.
Hey now, he was at least using his turn signals. More polite driving than here in Atlanta…
Don’t confuse those who are trying to color within the lines of Fake News. They desperately need this to support their morbidly-obese appetite for prejudices. The modern world now teaches in their schools the astounding stupidity of a third of the American people (rednecks). No one had ever heard of this level of stupidity before in world history! Three million believed Hillary ran a child prostitution ring out of a DC pizza place.
Meanwhile read the actual MH370 scientific-based research Gary linked. It is fascinating and horrifying at the same time.