News and notes from around the interweb:
- When you get an airline to pay for your wedding. I think this Southwest Airlines wedding story is even better though.
After flying in from St. Louis, the couple changed into wedding attire and eloped in the airport chapel surrounded by Southwest Employees. pic.twitter.com/yg5hzINxJ2
— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) March 22, 2023
We sent them off on their honeymoon with lots of well-wishes! pic.twitter.com/GXIqRvXpZO
— Southwest Airlines (@SouthwestAir) March 22, 2023
- The sum of all intelligence, on travel to Ohio:
This is scary.
ChatGPT has caught up with human intelligence.
If you ask it to list 20 great things about Ohio, it struggles and just mentions "it's affordable." pic.twitter.com/t5La8cXQ04
— Chris Bakke (@ChrisJBakke) March 21, 2023
- This, if real, would be a harbinger of the end times.
United meet your seat mate pic.twitter.com/qwR1iMoSks
— Soren Iverson (@soren_iverson) March 22, 2023
- Delta and Instacart devalue partnership not surprising because merchant-funded offers are inherently unstable.
- SkyTeam scoops ‘Alliance of the Year’ in Air Transport Awards 2023 which says more about those awards than it does about SkyTeam, the overall weakest alliance for consumers.
- The most unclean things in your hotel stay
- U.S. fans fly to Europe for concerts where they’re cheaper thanks Ticketmaster!
- Alaska Airlines passenger pays for an entire flight’s food and drinks Buying drinks for the whole plane used to be common on Southwest Airlines, back when they’d send out drink coupons with an award redemption and so those essentially flooded the market.
That story about the Alaska Airlines passenger buying food & drinks for the whole flight…. The first class passenger wanted to do something nice for the flight attendants, so they bought drinks & food for the entire flight AFTER those things had already been served.
So the flight attendants had to refund everyone who made a purchase & then charge the entire bill to the first class passenger. I can only imagine how many passengers who didn’t order food or drinks the first time around were suddenly in the mood for a snack once they found out it was free.
Seems like that “generous” passenger actually had an axe to grind with the flight attendants.