News and notes from around the interweb:
- Southwest Hawaii: It’s happening…! (We still don’t know when exactly.)
Look at who is setting up at HNL @garyleff @WandrMe @pizzainmotion pic.twitter.com/CSMc10Qz8O
— Reid Fishler (@joelfreak) January 28, 2019
More @SouthwestAir here in HNL. pic.twitter.com/CStZWlIxfw
— Reid Fishler (@joelfreak) January 28, 2019
- Alaska Airlines is paying out $120 million in performance bonuses or about $5500 per employee. Don’t tell American Airlines employees what their much much much smaller former close partner is doing.
- Starting in August robots will park cars at London Gatwick airport (HT: Marginal Revolution)
- The UK is warning travelers that they may need 15 months of passport validity to travel after hard Brexit which doesn’t quite make sense to me, I don’t know of any country that requires that much. The country offers a passport checker citizens can use to know their status “in the event of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.”
- Pictures of the same spots in Singapore 30 years apart (HT: Marginal Revolution)
- What happens to stuff we leave in hotel rooms?
- Encouraging pilots at American Airlines wholly owned regional Envoy Air to fly more.
The UK used to give you credit for unused validity when you renewed your passport, up to nine months. So if your passport had three months left when you renewed that would be added to the life of the new passport, so it’s expiration would ten years plus the three months. So it is possible to have a passport good for ten years and nine months. The EU will not recognize validity time beyond ten years and will require six months validity. The six months requirement plus the possible nine months extra is where the 15 months number comes from. It will only affect a tiny tiny number of people.
Those Singapore pics were really interesting!
Loved the Singapore pix. Thanks for sharing all that work!
In the 4Q earnings call a few days ago, WN estimated very end of 1Q or a bit later for Hawaii service to start. Would depend on details around government shutdown.