News and notes from around the interweb:
- The first baby born onboard ITA Airways happened on flight 855 from Dakar to Rome. The mother was seven months pregnant and unexpectedly went into labor:
- New Orleans airport traveler holds up TSA lines with more than a dozen bottles of Louisiana seasoning
Great On Everything… except planes?
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NewOrleans - Robinhood’s upcoming Platinum-Plated $695 credit card isn’t very good. It’s a coupon book of fine print. And Vlad Tenev seems to admit it and says theyr’e going to fix this.
TODAY ON TBPN: Robinhood's @vladtenev says he's heard the criticism that the company's new Platinum Card is "too coupon-y."
"We're going to come back to them with something better ahead of rollout that fixes a lot of the concerns," he said. pic.twitter.com/UWxeGz7eCM
— TBPN (@tbpn) April 29, 2026
- Is this the dumbest tax credit yet? And is this really what pisses him off most about Newark?
Nothing pisses me off more than when I get off an airplane at Newark Airport and, in my face, is a row of shirts in a store screaming, “I Love New York.” Really? We just landed in NEW JERSEY!
Let’s be honest, putting “I Love New York” on a t-shirt these days is basically like… pic.twitter.com/TjS1d9uRPc
— Rep Josh Gottheimer (@RepJoshG) April 28, 2026
- Customers continue to be disappointed by window seats with no windows.
My seat on my last leg. Kinda feel this should be disclosed!! @AmericanAir pic.twitter.com/ShYOUoSvnK
— William Backy ® (@williambacky) April 29, 2026
- Stop it.
@united running out of overhead bin space before Group 3 finishes boarding, then getting on the plane at the beginning of Group 5 to see this! Plenty of spots for my bag! If I wanted to pay for a checked bag I would’ve but I paid specifically for my bag to be w me! Ridiculous! pic.twitter.com/RooQPJdLox
— Em D, MD (@emilydworkin73) April 30, 2026
Gee. What an inconvenient birth. On a plane to the European Union. Who would have guessed.
Just saying as a colourful person…
Anchor baby?
“If I wanted to pay for a checked bag I would’ve but I paid specifically for my bag to be w me!” So, I assume he’s arguing he paid for regular Y, when he could have booked a cheaper BE seat. But, BE allows only a personal item and it costs you $75 if you show up with a carryon (which get checked). Did he compare Y to BE or Y to BE+$75? The latter is correct if he had a carryon bigger than the under seat size.
Anyway, yes, I’m 100% on the “this happens too often” side on too-early forced checking of carryons.
@Walter Barry, Italy is jus sanguinis, so being born there (assuming the birth on an ITA flight to Rome counts as Italian soil) doesn’t give citizenship to the newborn unless one/both of the parents have citizenship. There are exceptions if the parents are stateless, but that is unlikely here.
Those look like dry seasoning shakers, not bottles. I cayenne-t see a problem.
sorry, couldn’t resist
Just for the record, powders over 12 fluid oz need to be put in a separate bin fir screening and are subject to inspection. They will not be permitted through unless they “can be resolved” (as TSA puts it).
@This comes to mind — You should know by now that @Walter Barry is just simply a bigot. He doesn’t care what the law, cultural norms, etc. may be here or elsewhere. He just saw that the mother was non-white, and commented accordingly. Classic hate/rage-bait.
Traveling while 7 months pregnant? Was it some sort of emergency that she had to fly?