American’s Club Lounges Now Have Impossible Burgers and Mac and Cheese Bars

by Gary Leff

Oct 09 2019

Chicago O’Hare, Miami, Los Angeles and Dallas Fort-Worth have Impossible Burgers for purchase at $12. There’s also made-to-order ramen (“the Ramen Bowl shredded carrots, green onion, tomato and ramen noodles are prepared in the kitchen and warmed with the vegan lemongrass broth”) and some clubs lave local Destination Dishes on the Food for Sale menu.

The new “build-your-own mac and cheese stations…have a host of topping options, including onions, bacon and crushed chili cheese Fritos.”

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TSA Screener Does the One Thing the TSA Exists to Prevent

by Gary Leff

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Oct 09 2019

TSA has one job: to keep dangerous items outside of security checkpoints. That alone doesn’t make us safe, as Brussels and Istanbul airport attacks before security screening made clear. And the TSA isn’t very good at it in any case, regularly missing 90% or more of dangerous items they screen.

At a minimum, though, you’d expect that the TSA itself wouldn’t be the one bringing guns in.

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Insane: American Retrofitting Planes They’ll Need to Retrofit Again in a Year

by Gary Leff

Oct 08 2019

American Airlines has restarted their ‘Project Oasis’ retrofit to cram more seats into Boeing 737s. They’re taking these planes out of service for weeks at a time even with their MAX aircraft still grounded.

The first class on these planes is so bad they’ve decided to redo those on aircraft that have already been updated. But since the fixes haven’t been certified yet they’re going to put the wrong first class in these planes, only to change them up again in a year.

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American Airlines Replaces First Class Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Gary Leff

Oct 08 2019

American Airlines used to serve the most wonderful baked on board cookies. The whole domestic first class cabin would fill with the smell of fresh baked goodness. It was that smell, even more than the taste, which made the flight feel like home.

After US Airways management took over, and then implemented US Airways catering standards (while meeting in the middle the distance of flights that got meals) in September 2014, baked on board cookies were eliminated. They explained that since legacy US Airways aircraft had just one oven up front, it was tough for flight attendants to heat both meals and cookies at the same time.

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