News and notes from around the interweb:
- The making of airline safety cards they’re in the seat back pocket and nobody reads them.
- JSX doesn’t have a frequent flyer program (though you can earn JetBlue or United miles but they’re offering future flight credits based on how many segments you take with them in July. Existing bookings are eligible.
- 1000 bonus Hyatt points per night at Dream Hotels up to 10,000 points for stays July 6 – September 15. Registration required. (HT: Bill S)
- The first recorded customer complaint.
The first ever recorded customer complaint comes from Mesopotamia and is over 3,800 years old (1750 BC).
It is a complaint to a merchant named Ea-nasir from a customer named Nanni. Written in Akkadian cuneiform, it is considered to be the oldest known written complaint. It is… pic.twitter.com/cYRKELngJm
— Fascinating (@fasc1nate) June 27, 2023
- SmarteCarte is a good business to be in, when you get that airport concession. Sure some of those carts go missing, and you have to have someone collecting them, but at Atlanta they cost $9 from a kiosk for just a few minutes of use – whether right in from of the terminal at departures, or at baggage claim.
I am with my people! pic.twitter.com/avCGfy8Nnj
— Goose Lee 💙💛 (@Lee_Cobaj) June 27, 2023
- Alec Baldwin blames climate change for his Air Canada delay
- Marriott redeems 40 year old free night voucher
- The value of the San Francisco air travel market.
How important is San Francisco to the airline industry? Very… despite the many challenges in the metropolis.
Here’s Mark Nasr, Air Canada’s EVP of Marketing & Digital, President of Aeroplan, speaking about the lucrative status SFO has to AC & other global carriers. pic.twitter.com/VH6ZQ05qrw
— Tim Jue (@timjue) June 28, 2023
Nanni sounds like the original Karen.
To be clear it wasn’t Marriott itself that was on the certificate. It was for the Mulenbach hotel in town, which later became part of Marriott
Nobody reads the safety cards??
Most of it is boilerplate, the same on every plane and things that anyone reading this almost certainly knows. However, it can have a better picture of where all the exits are (I don’t fly often enough to have all configurations memorized) and tell you about any nonstandard vest placement.