News and notes from around the interweb:
- Norwegian Can’t Afford to Pay Laid Off Employees But Tells Them to Keep Their Uniforms As a “Keepsake”
- Passenger with an open bottle of Smirnoff and no mask head butts flight attendant
- American Airlines slashes mechanic training on 737 MAX by 90% MCAS doesn’t require ongoing maintenance, so this isn’t linked to the issues that cases the plane’s grounding, but the airline is rolling the plane out across more of their system and mechanics in bases that hadn’t spent time on the aircraft aren’t getting nearly as much familiarization with it as American was giving to mechanics earlier.
- Man departing Orlando tried to board his flight carrying 22 pounds of meth. Officers found it in a ‘random bag check’. His response? ‘Wasn’t his.’
The agent found 22 clear bags, each containing one pound of crystal meth, that were wrapped in clothing, and $900 inside Brown’s backpack, according to the outlet.
Police say the drugs are worth $500,000.
Brown, 46, told cops the bag wasn’t his. He claimed he fell asleep on his flight from Los Angeles to Orlando, and when he woke up, he saw the bag next to him so he grabbed it assuming it was his because it looked the same.
- Delta rolling out facial recognition for some domestic flights in Detroit. Creepy, and another instance of being required to remove a mask for air travel (in addition to TSA where they don’t have to remove their mask..).
Hahhahahaha this is crazy. How do people do that?
I’d dump him right on the tarmac. So tired of tolerating what has become of air travel. It’s a privilege not a right.
Get over it. They did it for BA flight from Orlando to Heathrow at least 30 years ago.
Gary – your paranoia is getting old. It was multi use dispensers in showers plus the body scanners in airports (have you really not taken a shower with others?). Now you are paranoid on facial recognition. I’ve been in IT 40 years and applaud the use of this technology and AI to target and stop people. As you likely know there is no right of privacy in a public place. Finally what is your issue w removing a mask at TSA to verify your ID? And to think the agent should do the same, when no one is checking their ID, is almost crazy!!!
Man you are losing it. Next time we will see a bling about black helicopters!!
> TSA where they (italics) don’t have to remove their (italics) mask
Why are you complaining that the security officer doesn’t remove his/her mask? Don’t you get that they’d just be exposing you to their viruses FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER? Yes, they need to see your face for ID purposes, so you have to lower yours, and I’d hope they’d be mandated to keep theirs on!
Agree with AC — you need to see a shrink. Your paranoia is getting in the way.