Newark's Mashed Potatoes-for-Miles Program, a Hack to Power Your Devices at Airports, and Problems at Uber

News and notes from around the interweb:

All-Audi all-inclusive car rental company Silvercar (see How I Made $12 on My Audi Rental Car) will now award Virgin America miles: 500, 1000, and 2000 points on this 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rental through December 31.
LAX has new rules to promote unionization at the airport, and airlines are suing
Power your devices with all those LCD monitors in the airport
The management and culture shift that Uber needs to make
At Newark Airport, mashed potatoes will cost you 1150 MileagePlus miles. Even factoring in sales tax that’s only 3/4ths of a penny per mile. Please don’t do it.
Improving departure throughput on those two parallel runways at SFO:

FAA also agreed to decide by sometime next year on implementing Wake Turbulence Mitigation for Departures—an experimental procedure that permits departures on closely spaced parallel runways depending on real-time cross-wind conditions, with likely initial implementations at BOS and SFO.

Newark’s Mashed Potatoes-for-Miles Program, a Hack to Power Your Devices at Airports, and Problems at Uber

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