News and notes from around the interweb:
- Google has built the Babel Fish pixel buds translate 40 languages in near-real time.
- Another incident reminds why safety demands laptops in the passenger cabin not the cargo hold
- UPS is trying to figure out who stole their secret business plans (HT: Jeff M.)
- TSA warns that there’s a ‘suspicious man’ traveling the country trying to get on planes
- Singapore Airlines now has over 50 cost cutting initiatives one of them is reducing food ‘wastage’ which means of course ‘reducing catering’.
- Alaska Airlines is giving free miles to University of Washington students and elite status based on GPA.
- United pilots share their Puerto Rico relief mission.
It doesn’t thrill me, but I understand Singapore’s moves, given their increasing red ink. What I don’t understand is when highly profitable airlines (see any major US legacy airline for reference) continue to make many similar moves. If it were less tasteless and unpleasant, it’d be funny how they squeeze a silver dollar until the eagle screams.
So I could understand the foreign speaker, but how do I respond in his language?