News and notes from around the interweb:
- What, you didn’t pay extra for your row of first class to have an overhead bin installed?
currently in-flight on an @AmericanAir flight from ORD-PDX and this is probably one of the worst ones I’ve been on this year out of the 20 total flights
-missing overhead compartment in our row of Business class
-other side’s compartment is taped up
-dirty stained tray table pic.twitter.com/X8ljpWhxV9— my flop era🕺🏻🪩 (@hello_itsnotbi) June 22, 2023
when your flight attendants laughed along with the passengers about the missing overhead compartment and took a pic of too on their phones, you should be kinda embarrassed by it 💩
— my flop era🕺🏻🪩 (@hello_itsnotbi) June 22, 2023
- 15% bonus on transfers from Capital One to TAP Air Portugal through June 30
- United finally bringing pre-order meal option to international business class starting next month.
Coming to @united: Polaris customers can pre-order meals on longhaul widebody flights from July 1. #paxex pic.twitter.com/1LFFNFq3ub
— Edward Russell (@ByERussell) June 22, 2023
- Five-Star Hotel Guest Leaves Without Paying After 603-Night Stay it appears to have involved collusion with a manager and several members of the staff. (HT: @crucker)
- Congress gave TSA workers a 30% raise to make it easier to hire and retain screeners, but didn’t limit the raises to screeners the TSA administrator is pushing back on congressional efforts to limit the increases to the people that were ostensibly supposed to be targeted with more money.
- Silly: Black card member complaints that the new Centurion New York is not worth visiting, and why don’t we get exclusive access for visits? Are there better places in the world? Okay. Is having this space better than not having it, which was status quo ante mere months ago?
- The battle for more beyond-perimeter slots at Washington National airport is really a battle between Delta and United.
Pro tip: If you stay 603 nights at a Marriott five-star resort, you will become a Marriott Bonvoy Ambassador Elite. When you pay the over 100 dollar-each-night resort fee, you may also receive free parking, faster internet, washed bath towels, and clean bed sheets at least once a month.
One of the people in that article is just likely pissed they can’t get into the Soho House. No matter how much money you have or throw at it, there are some places you can’t buy yourself into, like the Soho house. You have to be chosen, and wealth isn’t even a factor in consideration. That’s the gripe here.
The report of the missing overhead bin on AA reminded me an Aeroflot flight I took about 20 years ago from Moscow. At the last moment the Russian IL-86 widebody was replaced by TU-154 (likely from storage?). On that plane several overhead bins were missing and so were several seats. The lavatory was dirty with a very strong smell of urine that permeated the cabin…