News and notes from around the interweb:
- Delta, United, American, Alaska and JetBlue share in a $1.5 billion government freight contract but yeah no government subsidies for U.S. airlines.
- Bankrupt state carrier Garuda Indonesia gets government bailout.
- This usually only happens on Southwest.
@united flight 1983 MSY – DEN today December 21, 2022 this happen pic.twitter.com/skV1AR3evv
— 🧨Quennell Mitchell 📍 (@quennelmitchell) December 22, 2022
- Now this is the Southwest I know.
I feel like we always see videos of bad things that happen on airplanes, but this is the most wholesome flight I’ve ever been on! During a delay, we sang Christmas carols to pass the time. What a great way to spend a late night flight, thanks @SouthwestAir !! pic.twitter.com/Y7M0tYmLmY
— Sab ❤️ (@sabryngaming) December 22, 2022
- Joseph of Nazareth has had it with Hotels.com (McSweeneys)
- Mexico has been planning to re-launch Mexicana, to be run by the military their President now says he’s in talks with Boeing over aircraft for the carrier.
Had Joseph of Nazareth booked with Hilton directly, it would have canceled his reservation at that property in favor of a corporate booking, then reaccommodated his reservation at a nearby (inferior) property . . . at a higher award point rate.
What Margaret Kaminsky did in Judea in 1BC? Her name must have been Rachel or Judith, and family names end in -sky wouldn’t be around for another thousand years at least.
On the topic, though, apparently Gary is busy, but we can help doing his work, aren’t we? So, if Joseph had an American Express Aspire card (link) that comes with Hilton Diamond status, he would have invoked Diamond guarantee and booked the room regardless of availability. On top of that, since Judea is outside the United States, he and Mary would have received free continental breakfast as MyWay HGI benefit and late checkout, albeit not guaranteed but quite useful anyway to them given their family circumstances. Happy holidays to all!
Awesome Hotels.com satire.
Typical not so helpful to begin with hotels dot com