News and notes from around the interweb:
- This is pretty funny actually (HT: JonNYC) Remember when a Russian aircraft manufacturer suggested American Airlines could be a customer for their jet? These people are.. well, I don’t even know what to say.
Not a parody account pic.twitter.com/zYp8uDVSi7
— Eamon Hamilton (@eamonhamilton) December 6, 2023
- Why would you put your bare feet on the floor of an aircraft? Ewww.
@SouthwestAir This is rude an inappropriate for other passengers. No one wants to see or smell someone’s feet under their seat. Flight 930 San Jose to LAX 10am today. pic.twitter.com/wDW5P9a0DK
— TavionTateGuice (@TavionMillioune) December 6, 2023
- Pakistan International Airlines will demolish New York’s Roosevelt Hotel
- Ashford Hospitality turned 5 hotels over to lenders and will give back 14 more by the end of 2024. The cost of refinancing loans on the properties was too high relative to their worth. They no longer own “W Atlanta Downtown Hotel, two Marriotts in New Jersey and North Carolina and two Embassy Suites hotels in Arizona and California.”
- How Jim Moses went from 20-year-old flight attendant to American Airlines’ DFW chief I’ve only met Jim twice, but employees always speak highly of him. He made a big impression as Managing Director at LAX when he’d show up to help out with the often-delayed 1 a.m. Hong Kong departure.
- British Airways terminating its lease at San Jose airport
- Grandma Gave Him A Surprise. He Promised Not To Open It. TSA Had Other Plans:
@brett.gaffney Airport Security said this is the second one they have seen today! #brettgaffneyforever #holidaytravel ♬ original sound – brett.gaffney - Singapore Airlines goes through 100 bottles of wine and 100 bottles of champagne per day in its Singapore lounges honestly surprised it’s not more, to be honest.
At least BA moved some of the SJC capacity over to SAN so it’s closer to a net wash on award options to the West Coast
no one could have predicted how fast SJC would fall but that is what happens when one industry – tech – dominates the economy of a city.
While there is a movement back to traditional business travel for some sectors, even at reduced rates for business but growing numbers of “bleisure” passengers, tech has cut travel dramatically.
The guy with the surprise from Grandma would make a good mule.
Like the typewriter video brought back memories: of my youth)
“Pakistan International Airlines will demolish New York’s Roosevelt Hotel”
Based on every review I’ve seen of PIA, this will take the form of PIA moving in, using the bathroom a few thousand times without cleaning, then using an unlicensed demolition contractor to slam the hotel into the side of a mountain, killing 72,000,000 cockroaches in the process.