News and notes from around the interweb:
- Dirty diapers have been down there, and the seat back pocket hasn’t been wiped down in eons. Eeewwww.
Posts from the delta
community on Reddit - Last month Citi and Chase updated their Global Entry benefit to a reimbursement of up to $120 (to coincide with the Global Entry price increase). Barclays is updating its benefit to $120, also.
Effective October 1 when the price of Global Entry changes the benefit will match on: AAdvantage® Aviator® World Elite Silver Mastercard®; Emirates Skywards Premium World Elite Mastercard®; Mastercard® Gold Card™; Mastercard® Black Card™; Priceline VIP Rewards™ Visa® Card; Barclays Arrival® Premier World Elite Mastercard®.
- Genuinely cannot wait to see this hotel re-open a year and a half from now. There’s something special about the Park Hyatt Tokyo (beyond Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson in Lost In Translation) but it needed a refresh even a decade ago.
#ParkHyattTokyo would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your amazing support over the past 30 years. From now, we are pausing operations for a comprehensive restoration program and look forward to welcoming you home in October 2025! #PHT30thAnniversary pic.twitter.com/E0yfUCqhv0
— Park Hyatt Tokyo (@ParkHyattTokyo) May 7, 2024
- A year and a half ago, JetBlue and Etihad announced a partnership (that replaced JetBlue’s Emirates partnership, with Emirates partnering with United). Mileage earn and redemption will finally launch May 8.
- I think this is kind of creepy, actually.
- When cabin interiors look like this, passengers wonder about the parts of the plane they can’t see. That isn’t actually how this works, but it’s how most customers think.
@united this plane is being held together with tape!!! pic.twitter.com/koZxUxMKEZ
— Max Lundin (@LundinMax) May 6, 2024
Another day another Gary foot fetish post. I wonder if feet haunt his dreams or something?
I vividly remember 9/11/01… I was an 18 year old delinquent.. my friend and I had been to a concert the night before and we stayed up all night, we were a bit delirious. On the plane they served us bananas which we smashed in the seat-back pockets.
“@united this plane is being held together with tape!!!”
No, it isn’t. Just a temporary repair to one of the seats. It’s not nice, but it’s not worthy of Max’s drama queen post there. I’m honestly sick of whiny little snowflakes like this guy.
I have been flying for over two decades and can confidently say that I have never thought *once* about doing that, let alone twice…
I cleaned planes (among many other duties) as an airline supervisor) for 20 years.
Never, ever put your hand or anything else in a seat pocket before looking. The things I’ve found…
@greggb57: I used to run cabin appearance for a major airline. I think in my hall of fame is probably the dirty diaper someone managed to shove down into the tray table compartment of a business class-type seat armrest then somehow got the tray back in there. Up there with the lavatory sink so perfectly filled with diarrhea without a drop anywhere else.
I’ve always coached agents on security search be careful with seat pockets as I know of more than a few people who have found needles in there by surprise.