News and notes from around the interweb:
- Man goes “full psycho” on United flight to Tokyo, passenger now afraid to fly home.
First time flying united airlines going to Tokyo and 1.5 hours in the flight, guy goes full psycho on the plane. I have a return flight and I’m not sure if I want to fly back, feeling iffy about my flight @united I might see him again on my return .Terrible experience on my first pic.twitter.com/eorLsEaXNn
— Fin (@BenYu604) October 2, 2023
- How Pakistan International Airlines makes money from refugees in New York
PIA still owns 99 per cent shares of [New York’s Roosevelt] hotel while the Saudi prince holds on to one per cent. The airline has leased the hotel to the city for three years, at the rate of about $200 a day for a single room. The city will pay a total of $220 million in three years.
- Guest forced to leave hotel after gunshots came through his window and the property wouldn’t refund him for the rest of his stay. His early check-out also forced him to lose a long-stay discount.
- Bag containing ‘suspicious’ skull shuts down airport baggage screening for nearly 2 hours
- It’s easy to forget how Air Canada did the Lordstown trade with Aeroplan, selling it.. announcing they would terminate their partnership with the new owner… and then buying it back after the value crashed.
If you have a business, and there is a huge bubble for throwing money into that business, then I suppose a good trade is (1) you sell the business into the bubble for a lot of money, (2) you wait until the bubble pops and (3) you buy the business back for a very small amount of money. Now you own the business again, and also you have a lot of money. When the bubbly money-thrower was SoftBank Group Corp., I called this the “Wag trade,” after a literal dog-walking startup that took a bunch of SoftBank money for stock and then gave back much less money for the same amount of stock.
- United’s cabin maintenance consistently seems to be lacking.
Had to put my @united seat arm together for my flight this morning. Definitely a first for me. pic.twitter.com/15S9nJNPt7
— Michael Cherry (@mdcherry1) October 2, 2023
I think @united needs to do a bit better job of cleaning their Polaris seats pic.twitter.com/tNxW0Fn730
— David Hesketh (@davidghesketh) October 2, 2023
Similar experience just now. pic.twitter.com/34W3Spj4re
— Evelio Vila (@eveliovila) October 2, 2023
- The challenging, but not impossible, task of getting Marriott free nights extended
- GHA Discovery double elite night credits in October and November offer
I took some photos on a DL plane this weekend that were the filthiest I have ever seen… half inch of caked on dust and grime in plain sight from my seat. Wish I could share those.
I’m sorry to hear about the man who went “full psycho” on a United flight to Tokyo. It sounds like a very frightening experience for everyone involved, especially the passenger who is now afraid to fly home.
It’s important to remember that these incidents are rare, and that the vast majority of flights are safe and uneventful. However, it’s understandable that the passenger who witnessed this incident would be feeling anxious about flying again.
Doesn’t “Full Psycho” require a knife, shower, and hot blonde?
Why not make a credit card dispute for InTown Suites? Some of the contract they fulfilled and some they did not. Or was the payment by cash or check or transfer (or in the old days, money order)?
OMG- this was the OP’s first time being within 20 ft of an angry man? Where were they flying from? North Korea?
Only in America, you’ve all gone mad
Thing 1, makes a valid point.
I had a horrible flight to Paris and back in September. It was an A350-900 with taped up (no joke) seats. The tape is red and says “do not use”!!!! That makes you feel warm and fuzzy, doesn’t it? The arm was cracked plastic, anf of course, the seats were cramped and hard. That is in Delta Comfort Plus, mind you. Outbound the food was horrible and there was no service. None. I had to go to First Class to get some water. WiFi didn’t work on either out or back. There were handwritten messages in the toilet “no trash” and carpet was frayed and taped. I have never been on a Third World airline, and didn’t think Delta–whom I adore–would sink that low.
I would love to send the pictures to show just how awful it was.
Can anyone dig into their files and give me the address Ed Bastian????
also trapped in the flight by anonyms call prank, couple of weeks back,