The Doha airport features a giant Teddy Bear sculpture that’s 23 feet tall, weights 20 tons and is made out of bronze. It had previously been displayed in front of the Seagram’s Building on Park Avenue in New York.
A real bear made its way through security earlier this month at the Yelizovo airport in Far East Russia.
Travel is generally at the forefront of toleration. United, for instance, was first to offer ‘undisclosed’ and ‘unspecified’ gender options when booking a ticket. Air Italy, 49% owned by Qatar Airways, was first in Europe to let customers define gender themselves.
That seems to be the trend everywhere except the TSA where they still apparently expect passengers to conform to whatever gender stereotype matches the preferences of their screeners on any given day. You don’t have to be non-binary to run into problems, if you simply don’t appear masculine or feminine enough.
The question, I think, is whether the feature will be used in the future to pre-reserve a limited number of spaces in the lounge. It’s the only way I can see this feature being useful at all.
There are several amazing fares for coach roundtrip travel between the US and Europe starting at just $224.
American airlines has cut back on their special meals. Three of the meal choices – asian vegetarian, hindu, and muslim – are actually the same thing, diabetic meals now get chicken instead of beef, and five of their special meals now “receive standardized and frozen pre-prepared” entrees with a “one year frozen shelf life.” Yum!
But if one year shelf life is supposed to be the cutoff, how come a reader was served a vegetarian meal made in February 2018?
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Flight cancellations happen and are unfortunate. The story here is Delta subtweeting American by taking care of the another airline’s passengers, outside of the interline arrangement that lets one airline put their distressed passengers on the other carrier.
This past Saturday, Air Italy’s flight IG938 from San Francisco to Milan went mechanical. American Airlines had the part Air Italy needed, but they wouldn’t sell it. The scheduled 7:10 p.m. flight didn’t actually depart until early Monday morning,
American says they needed the part themselves, and an airline has to be “an approved carrier and have a partnership with us to borrow parts, and we don’t have a partnership with Air Italy.” In other words precisely because American is in a spat with Air Italy they won’t list the airline as an approved partner, and won’t lend parts.
American Airlines is using remote stands — and mobile lounges to transport passengers from aircraft to gate — for some afternoon Philadelphia Boeing 757, Boeing 767, and Airbus A330 arrivals.
The airline says it’s just as fast as arriving at a real gate, but anyone that’s flown into Washington Dulles will be… skeptical.
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