News and notes from around the interweb:

• LaGuardia airport used to charge 10 cents for planespotting

• Atlanta airport wants to relax ‘street pricing’ rules vendors aren’t allowed to charge more than 10% above off-airport pricing, the airport wants that to move to 15%.

  Meanwhile Miami is reversing course on scrapping its street pricing rules after learning such rules are common, rather than Miami being an outlier.

• It seems like everyone’s got lounge access these days.

  @united damaged planes, delays, and now mice in the lounges. Time to step up and do better. pic.twitter.com/23JCa334DQ

  — Elizabeth Wahl (@eawahl) December 3, 2021

• Alaska Airlines flight attendants union pressuring management to reduce inflight service

• Qatar Airways is doing a Boeing 777 lease with Cathay Pacific and that means flying Cathay seats Doha – Male and Doha – Hong Kong at least in February. This is great for getting to the Maldives in first class with two first class award seats allocated per flight (out of a cabin of 6).

  

• Bloomberg paean to Marriott CFO Leeny Oberg.

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