News and notes from around the interweb:
- The ITA Airways (‘new Alitalia’) starting fleet of planes
- American Airlines flight attendant welcomes passengers… then decides not to fly
- Travel advisors are like Catholic priests, and people are confessing their sins of using fake vaccine cards (WaPo)
- Spirit Airlines making great progress installing wifi lack of internet is the biggest reason I’ve avoided flying them, even though their Big Front Seat is one of the best values in travel.
The full A321 fleet completed its retrofit. Passengers on the type should be guaranteed a connected plane at this point. For the A320ceo planes (Spirit just calls them A320), the work is more than 80% complete. No guarantee at that level, but the odds are highly in favor of customers finding WiFi available on board. Given the current installation pace the last dozen planes should wrap up right around Thanksgiving.
Installation on the A320neo and A319 fleets has not yet started, even as new deliveries of the A320neo ramp up (11 so far of 16 planned for this year). Presumably those will begin as the A320ceo complete, just like the A320ceo followed the A321s.
- Removed Robert E. Lee statue now on display at Texas resort not sure if this is better or worse than the W South Beach displaying Che Guevara art?
- Alaska Airlines pushes its plan to grow at Paine Field to 2022 when it will operate 12 peak daily departures.
- Another Delta employee fired for smuggling guns
Glad to see people using fake vax cards. It’s smart.
Push back against the anti-science vaccine bullies.
It’s definitely better to carry a fake vaccine card than to not these days.
@Don couldn’t agree with you more. I carry a fake drivers license, a fake medical license, and a fake birth certificate. I’m tired of being bullied by the man.
@Stephen! Great call! Being so obvious about being such a dumb sad disingenuous coward makes it very clear to other people that they should avoid you. Appreciate it!
Gary I’m assuming you push headlines that are similar to previous posts with high numbers of views. Are you able to see where the views and comments are coming from? I feel like this site has an extremely high number of comments from obvious trolls and wonder if it’s because of the headlines that signal good topics for trolls to post on. It’s like clockwork that a controversial topic on your site will have absurd comments that fuel discord and anger.
I guess I don’t blame you as you essentially increase your earnings with increased views and cash is king…
Excellent. Mine is perfect- got correct dates, lot numbers, and matches where I could have been on those dates. It hasn’t failed yet. They barely glance at it.
“Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?”
@ Don — Don’t forget to bring your fake high school diploma and fake voter registration card.
Can’t a person go to jail for producing a fake vaccine card in an airport? Some people are going to desperate measures just to get on an airplane or train.
@Don…That’s kinda foul of you to allegedly advocate that people run vaccine card scams just to get by. Why would you rejoice about that if you know in your heart it’s wrong for people to produce fake vaccine cards?
@Gene….FOUL!
It seems like this blog “article” was meant to trigger a politically-charged audience to come to the site: vaccines, priest, guns, Confederacy figure, Cuba/Leftist Argentine guerilla figure.
You get the spirit of it. What’s next, “sex”?
@GUWonder – Also the Che artwork was removed by the hotel after protests by Cuban-Americans, so “cancel culture” as well.
Although I’m sure for some reason it doesn’t count as cancel culture since it was conservatives doing it 8 years ago….
Sco,
Cancel culture ? Your understanding of the term is a bit off. Che is not getting fired from his job for an unpopular political opinion, he’s dead!
Why do the protected need to be protected from the unprotected by forcing the unprotected to use the protection that did not protect the protected in the first place?
No one seems to be able to answer this question
This there anyone here who has some type of logical answer
Thanks
@Dan777 – You do realize that Che didn’t make the artwork right? Anyway, I’m glad to hear that the removal of an artist’s work for political reasons isn’t part of cancel culture – so Netflix can just go ahead and remove the Chappelle special and then we can all laugh at the people claiming it is part of cancel culture
Charge and prosecute them. Start sending them to prison and some people will decide it’s better for their lifestyle to get vaccinated for real than to hang out in prison for a while. These people are spreading a disease that’s killing 1500 people a day in the U.S. alone. That’s about five fully loaded aircraft. If five fully loaded aircraft went down every day we wouldn’t be arguing about it; we’d see action.
Sco,
If that mob went after the artist themselves and tried to destroy their reputation and get them fired as well, then yes that would be cancel culture. But that’s not what happened is it? Hence not cancel culture, just like if Chapelle has his special taken down, not cancel culture I agree…. Same same