Tedgrrrr reports that he was on a Delta flight from Los Angeles to New York yesterday where Jennifer Lopez’s 9 year old son, Maximilian David Muñiz, was selling chocolate bars in business class.
A passenger’s poodle that was checked as baggage onto a Japan Airlines flight from Tokyo Haneda to Okinawa escaped this morning onto a runway.
One of Tokyo Haneda’s four runways had to be closed. Twice. But here’s the thing. It took them 40 minutes to catch the poodle, but they only closed the runway for six.
Alaska’s acquisition of Virgin America catapults the West Coast into a hot contest. Alaska and Southwest are bulking up on routes. Alaska has said that the economics of the deal will work out because of the strength of their credit card deal with Bank of America. Southwest wants California cardmembers as well.
And they’re doing something interesting about it. Southwest is emailing a targeted offer to at least some California-registered Rapid Rewards members with a Companion Pass as part of the signup bonus.
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American’s Hong Kong – Los Angeles flight was cancelled today when a piece of equipment caught fire as it was preparing to put cargo in the aircraft’s hold. There’s incredible video footage from several angles.
A US diplomatic employee was detained in Turkey last week claiming links to US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen whom it claims was responsible for the July 2016 coup attempt against Turkish strongman President Erdoğan.
That set off a chain reaction that now has Turkey refusing to provide non-immigration visa services inside the U.S. and, it seems, refusing to provide e-Visas to US passport holders.
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Marriott will give you 1000 points for answering a simple question on Twitter. I give you the answer.
Star Alliance member ANA is selling travel between Denver and Bangkok for less than $284 roundtrip in January and February. There are good fares from other US cities as well.
“As of mid-2011, terrorist threat groups present in the Homeland are not known to be actively plotting against civil aviation targets or airports; instead, their focus is on fundraising, recruiting, and propagandizing,
…the government concedes that it would be difficult to have a repeat of 9/11 due to hardened cockpit doors and the willingness of passengers to challenge hijackers rather than assume a hijacking merely means a diversion to Cuba.”
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