News and notes from around the interweb:
- The American AAdvantage – Sprint program will end after five years. Back in the day when they’d award miles on $0 phone lines this was lucrative, but otherwise earning miles wasn’t as good as discounted rates that excluded miles for many. And.. Sprint.
- We rate this claim as true.
- Man shot in his hotel room at the DoubleTree New York Downtown someone “opened fire from the hallway, hitting the victim through the door of a room.”
- TSA reminds you to insist their screeners change gloves before giving you a pat down. It seems like supervisors should be doing the reminding? (HT: Reid F.)
#DYK TSA officers will change their gloves with each pat-down. Also, passengers may request TSA officers to change gloves at any time. pic.twitter.com/Mk0zXozIKT
— TSA (@TSA) December 16, 2020
- The American Airlines flight attendants union reminds flight attendants they can offer a religious objection to vaccination if the airline decides to require it. The EEOC agrees but a religious exemption to employer-required vaccination is weaker than you might expect.
Here, EEOC is relying on TWA v. Hardison (1977). Justice White’s majority opinion found that religious exemptions that create “more than a de minimis cost” are an “undue hardship,” and need not be granted.
- Rapper offers $50,000 reward after losing his hard drive in the Delta terminal at LAX it started out at $20,000 and then quickly went to 50.
$50,000
— Swae Lee Lee Swae (@SwaeLee) December 16, 2020
I’m glad there’s places like Tulum and cruise ships so that the places I want to travel aren’t as packed with boorish American tourists. But at the same time, what’s wrong with wanting to re-create your culture, but just on a beach with drinks served out of coconuts? It’s not for me, but that doesn’t inherently make it wrong.
@ Gary — Why are you picking on Sprint? I’ve had Sprint for over 20 years, and I haven’t had any significant issues.
$50,000 reward…. I wonder how much kiddie porn Mr. Lee has on there….
@Amazing Larry – way to accuse a POC of a heinous crime with absolutely no evidence. Are you a stupid racist? Or just racist? Anyway, hard drives are commonly used by entertainment industry producers because the files stored are too large to back up efficiently on the cloud.