News and notes from around the interweb:
- Unique flight delay for a passenger who brought a dead bird on board an American Airlines flight.
Our flight had to turn around from the run way because someone put a cooler with a dead bird on i e in the overhead ! It spilled into the overhead leaked out and pilot declared it a biohazard
- Ok, people. Leave aside that this is an Airbus aircraft. American Airlines does not operate any Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, nor do they even operate older Boeing 737-900s with door plugs.
Even flying @Boeing #737s sans door plugs is far from joyous
Our 8pm @AmericanAir flight MIA>PDX is still on the tarmac awaiting maintenance sign off (10:45pm)
The plane is full of people delayed by other 737 cancellations
And the AA rebooking line was a football field long pic.twitter.com/CrZXMvRwWi
— Jonathan Hopkins ️ (@JHopLovesTrains) January 10, 2024
- Southwest Airlines vibes.
Hey thanks American flight 2528 for playing this at full volume in the cabin for five straight minutes. I get it was a person in first class birthday but have some mercy ! @AmericanAir pic.twitter.com/0mAWfoP892
— Pete Tantillo (@tan409) January 10, 2024
- I am a white guy with a U.S. passport I am basically o.k. most of the world but I still gulp when going through border checkpoints. That stamping sound is a sigh of relief.
- Maybe this wasn’t a mistake, and United Airlines is just trying to tell you something?
@united that is twice now on a United flight – I’ve pre ordered a Vegan meal and been offered a meal with Cheese. This is what I was given yesterday on my flight from Edinburgh to Newark. I don’t understand how after nearly a year – you are still making the same mistake. pic.twitter.com/1IvZgPErVO
— ioni (@IoniAllan) January 9, 2024
- There is some truth in this. (HT: @crucker)
For the 777, Boeing put their heads of software engineering on the test flights.
For the 737 Max, Boeing outsourced the software testing to $9 an hour contractors in India.
Decline is a choice. pic.twitter.com/i4aRr3lJ4f
— Dr. Ben Braddock (@GraduatedBen) January 9, 2024
Vegans remind me of the South Park episode where everyone bought Priuses (or is it Priusii?). Driving around smugly telling each other “Good for you….”
“Biohazard” bird and “View from the Wing” is a joke just waiting to be told.
It was an ex bird.
The cheeses could have been those fake vegan ones. A common marketing strategy is to name the fake vegan food the same as the real one so it would not be strange for the purchasing department to mix things up.
Now that puts the wing in View from the Wing!
Vegans hate vegan food so much they have to call the soy shaped food by the food they wish they were eating