McDonald’s Lawsuit Revisited: 15 Year Old Sues Virgin Australia After Being Burned By Coffee Inflight

ronald mcdonald
Nov 20 2016

You may be familiar with — and even outraged by — the famous lawsuit against McDonald’s by Stella Liebeck who was burned by hot coffee.

The jury’s $2.7 million award has long been a poster child for tort reform (the judge actually reduced her award to $480,000).

We now have a new McDoanld’s case from the skies. A 15 year old flying Los Angeles – Sydney is suing Virgin Australia after getting burned by hot coffee.

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GREAT DEAL: Free Elite Status for American Airlines Holiday and Winter Travel

Nov 20 2016

Just in time for the holidays, you can have free checked bags on American Airlines. You can have Priority Boarding, too, which means you’ll get on the plane early enough that there’s still overhead bin space available. And forget long check-in lines, if you have to check in with a person rather than online or at a kiosk you get to use Priority Check-in.

These are benefits of “oneworld ruby” status, the entry-level status of American’s oneworld partners.

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New Insight Into How American’s President Scott Kirby Wound Up President of United

Nov 19 2016

When former US Airways President Scott Kirby left as President of American Airlines to become President of United American sent out their press release about elevating Chief Operating Officer Robert Isom to President and explained that Scott Kirby was leaving immediately. It didn’t mention anything about United, and it didn’t say anything about spending more time with his family.

In a long piece from Fortune on Oscar Munoz’s tenure at United we…get this explanation about Scott Kirby’s move from American to United:

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