News and notes from around the interweb:
- What did I just watch.
Jets dont use fuel to fly. pic.twitter.com/VR69HIPS0O
— mrredpillz jokaqarmy (@JOKAQARMY1) September 3, 2025
- Miami TSA in the American Airlines terminal…
- Rove is offering 1,000 miles for new members with first activity through September 17, and that stacks with promo code BACKTOSCHOOL for 5,000 miles with first hotel booking by October 3 on minimum $500 booking – promo code STAYCATION for small $250-minimum booking earns 2,500 bonus miles.
Also notable, they’re offering 5x on Target gift cards and 4x on Staples git cards through September 6 (up to $2,000 ‘per transaction’ on gift cards).
The CEO of Rove previosuly emailed,
You can get up to 25x miles at a bunch of hotels without needing a card, while the next best giving a flexible currency is 10x requiring a high [annual fee].
That, combined with the fact that you get the miles instantly when the stay is nonrefundable, means you can often cover your flight for free with your hotel stay. …[A] customer..did this and got 3 free biz class tickets on [Turkish] for 255k miles within 2 weeks of our launch (for about $10k hotel spend). The flights he received were likely worth more than he spent on the hotel. The amount you’d have to spend with any other program to get that is much much higher.
- SriLankan offering 46% bonus on all flights worldwide
- Register by November 1 to earn up to 20,000 bonus points on Hyatt Regency stays in the U.S., September 3 – November 23, booked via Hyatt’s app
- Earn 3,000 bonus points after 3 nights
- Earn 7,000 more bonus points after 7 nights
- Earn 10,000 more bonus points after 10 nights
- Earn 3,000 bonus points after 3 nights
- The days of the 10-minute turn. It was invented because Southwest struggled early on, had to return one of its planes, and worked to keep the same schedule without that jet.
@fox10phoenix ICYMI: In a feat of efficiency, Southwest Airlines transforms a full Boeing 737 at Sky Harbor from arrival to departure in a mere ten minutes, a blazing fast turnaround that dramatically boosts profitability and offers travelers unbeatable low fares. Watch the full episode + more Video Vault segments at the link in our bio!
- This seems well-handled on all sides. The bias at check-in should be to carefully make sure rules are being followed, and maybe it’s a good thing that check-in agents aren’t familiar with all the ins and outs of different ways to carry guns (they aren’t dealing with this a lot!). They are willing to listen and walk through the rules, and conclude that the passenger is following them. I think that’s great!
Seeing an adult admit when they are wrong and be proactive in teaching others properly is so rare these days pic.twitter.com/Ld5j3z1t6B
— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) September 3, 2025
- Atlanta airport train operators vote to unionize
Yeah, I saw a TV show where they rotated a Mayan statue to show it was really an “astronaut on a seat” and therefore space people built their pyramids. Scientific illiterates will ignore reality and say anything, just see the HHS leadership these days… Anyway, good for the Delta agents on getting things right.
Gee, I wonder what that was I pumped into jets for over twenty years? Chemtrail juice?
While the ATL ‘Plane Train’ does not have conductors (it’s automated), I’m glad to hear that the workers who support it are organizing; that’s a good sign for others based in that region who should finally join Delta’s pilots (since 1934) and dispatchers in doing the same *cough* flight attendants, baggage handlers, etc. *cough*