News and notes from around the interweb:
- Will the Charlotte airport ever get as big as Atlanta? No. Atlanta is currently twice as big a hub, Charlotte is an inexpensive second best with less non-stop traffic.
It’s also less desirable as an international destination, American sees Philadelphia as its transatlantic gateway, Miami for Latin America and Los Angeles for transpacific. But it’s a good connecting hub for the Southeast and Midatlantic, keeps its costs very lwo to stay that way, and the local community benefits from outsized air service (albeit higher prices) as a result.
- Tim Horton’s will introduce a loyalty program this year
- British Airways parent IAG places new restrictions on non-EU shareholders acquiring stock out of fear for what happens post-Brexit if British citizens, not included in the new limits, push the carrier to become non-European owned.
- Qatar Airways has voice and accent training for cabin crew
- 16 year old arrested for hijack attempt in Alaska
- The Winglet wants United to disavow Louis Farrakhan’s appearance at the United Center. United says they have no influence over what happens there, they just pay for the name. Of course Delta ended its sponsorship of the Fox Theater in Atlanta when they learned Qatar Airways was going to appear there.
- We’re #1! My home airport of Austin had more guns seized per traveler than any other aiport in the US last year
Geez, I know you’re not a fan of CLT but did that need to be so cut throat?
@alex I prefer matter of fact and I think “it’s a good connecting hub for the Southeast and Midatlantic, keeps its costs very lwo to stay that way, and the local community benefits from outsized air service (albeit higher prices) as a result” is sort of positive?
As I’ve said before, IMO when you take the worst of ORD and combine that with the worst of LGA you have CLT. I will do just about anything to keep from connecting through CLT.
There would be less guns seized if trying to bring one on a flight buys you a lifetime subscription to the No Fly club.
For those who put down TSA (Gary…): I wonder what the owners of those guns planned to do with them. Why would I trust them to not attack me?
@Gary Steiger – What makes you think those gun owners had any intent to use their guns, rather than just forgetting they had them in their bag? I’d attribute pretty much all of the scenarios when this happened to ignorance, rather than malice.
93 guns from Auston, TX alone. And all of them forgot they had them in their bags? “Pretty much all of them” ? (Pretty much isn’t good enough. It takes only one.)
If I were to own a gun, I would always know where it is. 93 Texans don’t? Right.