News and notes from around the interweb:
- Emirates first class caviar consumption is up 30% year-over-year.
The most caviar is consumed on routes between Dubai and London, followed by Paris, Sydney, Moscow and Bangkok.
- Many such cases.
The man I lost my virginity to is having a daughter in a few months and I am about to polish off the bag of cocaine I accidentally brought into the Schengen Zone at 9:24 am in an airport lounge
— EBITMA (@ebitmom) August 24, 2025
- ‘What’s grosser than gross?’
@AmericanAir 10th fight with this situation and yet any time I write customer service a “bot” replies. These pictures are from getting on the plane today to depart. Last time I cleaned everything MYSELF. and no one replied to my text or emails. UNACCEPTABLE @AmericanAir pic.twitter.com/51gW4YEAKG
— Paige Sganga (@ppsmart11) August 25, 2025
- American Airlines, clean your planes.
@AmericanAir we literally just boarded, this is how you keep your planes? Charging top dollar and can’t even vacuum a little? pic.twitter.com/uluCzLj2aQ
— TOW Fella (@mack_a_d00) August 25, 2025
- And fix your seats. I have been on multiple widebodies with broken seats this year.
@AmericanAir I flew Business Class on AA715 VCE–PHL on Aug 23 in Seat 5A. The armrest was broken and duct taped together. No alternate seats were available. This was not the premium service I expected — can you assist? pic.twitter.com/QtZBB44qSA
— Marcel Fuentes (@MarcelFuentesss) August 24, 2025
- It’s tough to make a class action lawsuit against airlines work for anything they sell, but I see multiple complaints a week about this:
Maybe I’m just an old school type of person but I think you need to fully understand what you buy and should never rely on the seller’s representations. There are several very good sites where you can view airlines’ plane configuration before confirming a seat. In addition to the “window seat without a window” there are other window seats where the window doesn’t line up with the seat and is barely useable. My late wife liked window seats and I checked every time to make there there was an actual window that lined up with her seat. Also there are seats with limited recline and others in poor locations (next to lav). Zero sympathy for those too lazy or ignorant to check this before buying a ticket
For better and worse, I credit that ‘exchange of missiles’ in the Middle East in June with enabling my last-minute Business to First upgrade on Emirates from DXB-JFK. I did enjoy two caviar courses (and the shower) on that a380. Totally worth the 70K Amex to Emirates points transfer. If it were ‘normal’ times, it probably wouldn’t have been as ‘available.’ Hmm.
Duct tape or speed tape? Heh.
@1990 — Caviar on an airplane? How wonderfully decadent. Nice putting the points to good use!
@L737 — It was… ‘deliciously absurd.’
Not a bad [Roundup], too. Mostly ‘clean. your. planes.’ and ‘fix. your. seats.’ which are two of my favorite, long-running Gary-isms.