News and notes from around the interweb:
- Make money riding Uber
- The current acting head of the FAA is a former airline lobbyist who retains a pretty tight relationship with his former clients
- Great read: “The Last Leg Home – Captain Archuleta’s Ashes are Returned to His Wife with Honor”
- Korean Air’s Chairman and CEO failed to get re-appointed to the airline’s board when the carrier’s second largest shareholder, South Korea’s pension system, declined to support him. The airline says however that he will remain Chairman and CEO, but does not explain how, though the man’s family does control Korean Air’s parent company.
- Former President of Marriott and of Northwest Airlines, who ‘created a list of Jews’ for Richard Nixon, has died.
- So has the Air France pilot who decided to stay with his hijacked plane when terrorists released non-Jewish hostages.
- Fire at the Grand Hyatt Singapore when mezza9 restaurant kitchen caught fire. Thank goodness Straits Kitchen was unaffected! (HT: David H.)
