News and notes from around the interweb:
- New elite benefits for Best Western Rewards
- Are Uber wait times getting worse?
- One month after 9/11 Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) saw a huge opportunity for federal pork projects: “”It’s an open grab bag, so let’s grab.”
Now that the President is talking about major federal infrastructure spending, the CEO of Dallas Fort-Worth airport has his hand out suggesting a need for $10 billion “in improvements to runways, taxiways and other parts of the airfield” even though according to Fort Worth’s mayor the airport doesn’t even have spending priorities at this point for that kind of money.
- Here’s what those white spirals inside airplane engines are for (HT: Sean O.)
- Aussies: minimum 500 Qantas miles for listening to a pitch on switching health coverage.
- Squawking 7700: In-flight emergencies from a pilot’s perspective
- From the March 13 issue of Airline Weekly, Beijing is poised to overtake Atlanta as the world’s largest airport by number of seats. Here’s data from scheduled second quarter operations:
Picture of Gary Leff = The man is very fat, loaded with airline cholesterol
@OG Gary Leff Re: scaring birds with a nose-cone swirl: Duh. I have a Ph. D. in nothing and knew that the swirl would be visible only at very low rpms (to humans at least).
Here’s a thought though. How about airlines supplying (as an amenity) premium passengers with C-Paps, Zyppahs or some other device that could eliminate or reduce snoring. Everyone, including the snorer (me), would sleep better and longer allowing passengers to arrive more rested and less embarrassed and probably saving the airlines money. 🙂
Why a picture of fat Tom Arnold?
@Ren = Parents never taught them manners or how to behave in public.
Keep comments like this to yourself.