News and notes from around the interweb:
- Lufthansa making first class awards available to partners only within 3 days of travel
- Cut this out airlines. Just stop it.
Nothing like lying to their customers forcing ppl to check their carryons when there was PLENTY of overhead bin space. Why do I even pay for economy plus and was the beginning of boarding group 3. @united do better. And your flight attendants were all so rude to everyone. pic.twitter.com/fWsMFTfvYG
— Jenn Carter (@jjc1314) March 6, 2024
- Qatar Airways says its AI flight attendant is the airline industry’s first ‘digital human’ (HT: Tommy L)
- While this Delta pilot calls himself a ‘servant leader’ this United Airlines pilot helps out flight attendants with service in the cabin during a delay.
@united flight delayed out of @DenverAirportW and the Captain is serving water to passengers because the AC is off. How cool is that! pic.twitter.com/xe1UlgzbdF
— United States Honor Flag (@UnitedStatesHF) March 6, 2024
- Delta Air Lines pilot caught with 2 bottles of Jägermeister in his luggage pleaded guilty to turning up drunk for a flight
- Albania has grown tremendously as a tourism destination and is on a path to join the EU. That could accelerate quickly:
In the OpenAI blog post they mentioned "Albania using OpenAI tools to speed up its EU accession" but I didn't realize how insane this was — they are apparently going to rewrite old laws wholesale with GPT-4 to align with EU rules https://t.co/7RZLwBYosK
— sophia (@cis_female) March 6, 2024
- And some of you think I’m paranoid (mostly about germs)…
TikTokers are turning into paranoid schizos about staying in hotels. pic.twitter.com/OnDUoWeIqi
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 6, 2024
This is Delta we’re talking about so I’ll have you know that that was PREMIUM Jagermeister.
“Albania has grown tremendously as a tourism destination” – probably mostly due to Europeans wanting to visit their cars which ‘mysteriously’ seem to end up in Albania after being ‘removed without permission’.
Until Albania does something about its organised crime, it has less chance of being accepted into the EU than I have of being declared the next Pope 🙂
Sorry , but I have very little sympathy with airlines trying to limit carry-on bags , since they inspired the stupid carry-on bags in the first place , and their gate agents allow them on . Also , I have very little sympathy with the passengers who insist on bringing the kitchen sink on board with them . In my opinion , the entire carry-on bag fiasco is caused by both the airlines and the passengers .
If the gate agent wants to check your bag, just have them tag it, carry it down the jetbridge, rip off the tag and carry it on. Federal regulations do NOT require that you obey gate agents.
The article didn’t state which frat the pilot was rushing.
Albania is the only country in Europe which remained majority Muslim after the Arab and Ottoman conquest ended. Think about what that means. Sure, Bosnia is 50-50 but Albania is on another level. Albania is the center of trafficking and organized crime. Albanians are on the same level of Dominicans who rave about their country but never explain why they left it if it was so great. 10% of the Albanian Christians may be the nicest and warmest people given how they stood up to the hoards and persecution.
@DavidArnett … +1 .
@ DavidArnett
Your comments is virtually identical down to the Dominican comparison someone named “Jack Hudson” made to Gary’s first favorable remarks about Albania.
Maybe American Airlines can stretch out negotiations until most of the cabin crew can be replaced with Sama 2.0 or an advanced model.