News and notes from around the interweb:
- Alaska Airlines ‘missed connections’ but how is she going to find her dream beau? Clever:
[G]et an old wallet or phone or something, put a message in it with your contact info. Call the airline, tell them the item belongs to the person sitting next to you and accidentally ended up in your bag. Airline might contact them to ‘return their item’. The airline knows who sat in which seat
- Pay Per View in the United Club on the screen:
- Always check the math on the checkout page, folks.
@Delta big glitch in your website
Very embarrassing pic.twitter.com/dguOf2Burz— Chinmay Modak (@ChinmayModak211) March 23, 2025
- “Dance like no one is watching, love like you’ve never been hurt, sing like no one is listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.”
@AmericanAir the world needs more of this! pic.twitter.com/vsriEB0gG6
— Chris Lavigne (@crlvideo) March 23, 2025
- A 16-hour flight delay and two $15 meal vouchers, January Jones puts United Airlines on blast as she posts herself sleeping on the ground in the airport.
On Sunday, March 23, the Mad Men alum, 47, shared a screenshot on her Instagram Stories of flight-delay details that showed a 16-hour-and-25-minute delay for her trip.
Alongside the image, Jones tagged United Airlines and asked the company to “do better.”
“A couple $15 food vouchers isn’t gonna cut it,” she added over the image. “Our 7:30p [flight] last night still hasn’t left.”
- Comedian Steven Wright once said that he was kicked out of a movie theater for bringing his own food. His argument, he said, was that concession stand prices are outrageous. And besides, he hadn’t had a barbecue in a long time. Something tells me he’d appreciate passengers bringing this on board:
Food reheater through tsa
byu/Remarkable_Drop7414 inamericanairlines - Flying Frontier Airlines is one way to think about the problem of illegal immigration.
Picture the misery of the worst travel day you’ve ever had.
Multiply it 100x. That’s what it’s like to immigrate LEGALLY.
Multiply it another 25x. That’s what it’s like to immigrate ILLEGALLY.
Shouldn’t have broken the law?
After your worst travel day, weren’t you ready to?
— Bryan Caplan (@bryan_caplan) March 24, 2025
Damn that’s clever
Regarding Delta’s WEB site glitch…. That’s a lot of taxes and fees there!
You know what’s ‘wild’ about SFO United Clubs, welp, it’s not that salacious TV screen. Nope. That’s to be ‘expected’ somewhat. What is actually wild is that United doesn’t open its United Club in the International Terminal (F) until 7AM, so, if you have an 8AM transcontinental, Polaris, lie-flat to EWR, you practically cannot access the lounges beforehand, because, boarding starts around the time it opens. To me, that is ‘wild,’ and seems to be purposeful for United to skimp out on actually serving its consumers. Most other United Clubs around the world open like 5AM. Not SFO, where apparently, United feels it has a monopoly and doesn’t have to care. Anyway, that’s my rant on that.
The reason whey Delta is so profitable has been revealed (sarcasm).
You’re not really suggesting people commit fraud and waste others time and money in order to implement some creepy plan to hook up, when you didn’t have the guts to speak up when you had the chance, are you?
Shoot your shot when you have the chance, otherwise learn from it and move on.
@Mantis — I doubt Gary is seriously promoting that idea—he’s merely quoting some random person on Reddit who did so in response to a ‘tale’ that someone shared. If it’s even real, I doubt such a scenario would be ever charged as fraud (like, in a criminal prosecution), but perhaps, if one were to attempt such a ploy, then they could avoid civil liability (‘the waste’ you refer to) by offering to pay for the shipment of the item they wished to return to the other passenger. Again, all this probably doesn’t matter much because I bet the original poster (on Reddit) was just making up the story for internet clout, which ironically created derivative internet clout for Gary to post about. It’s ‘the circle of life’ on the internet, I guess. Bah!
You might think, nice, a non-political or hate-filled post from @Mantis, for once. Yet, I will say, I’ve noticed the uptick in the usage of words like ‘waste, fraud, and abuse’ from your ilk, likely because that’s all they’ve been saying on right-wing sources lately in order to justify the recent dismantling of the government in favor of tax cuts for the wealthiest people and corporations. Yet, you still go after the ‘little guy’ for their schemes (even in a hypothetical like this). Just saying, it’s telling—your mindset is flawed. Never go after the ‘big fish’ just focus on peons. Yeah, I’d prefer if we held everyone accountable, not just the little guys. Anyway.