News and notes from around the interweb:
- If you find yourself waiting in a line like this one to get into a Delta Sky Club, and you’re not facing an 8+ hour connection, consider the life choices you’re making.
Why would anybody subject themselves to this? What do these poor saps think awaits at the top of the escalator? Spoiler: it’s even more lines! One to the feeding trough and another to the bar. As good as the two soups they serve are, and as much as I love soupy hummus or chicken à la rubber, I’ll have to pass.
- This is a smart take and I think it is correct, a specific example of the broader point I do not think most appreciate about how much is about to change. We are only a few years away from the LLMs rapidly improving themselves with little human intervention. There will be some regulatory moats, and we don’t know how long it’ll be until they’re truly agentic. But there’s a reason OpenAI is dropping video as a costly distraction of compute power.
- Every year my wife says it’s fine to get rid of SiriusXM in the car, but every year I still open a chat window in that account and get them to extend $3.99++/mo for another year. At that price I’m willing to keep it but I can’t fathom anybody spending 5+ times that amount. It just seems like technology has passed it by.
Ran some diligence on SiriusXM this weekend
Not because anyone asked
Because my 14-year-old nephew connected his phone to my car via Bluetooth, played a Spotify playlist, and asked me what the "SXM" button was for
I didn't have an answer
So I pulled the 10-K
SiriusXM is an…
— Ethan Brooks (@alt_w_v_g) March 29, 2026
- It’s good to be king.
King of Thailand flies plane himself into Laos for a State Visit, with the Queen beside him, March 2026
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u/Qabbalah in
interestingasfuck - “A fish on the runway.” DFW briefly became the nation’s leading airport for air, land, and sea traffic, as wildlife control got upgraded to full aquarium management.
DFW today:
Pilots reported they almost hit a hawk with something in its mouth on roll out. Next pilot to land said all they saw was a small bird on the runway. Turns out the small bird was a fish the hawk had in its mouth. 🤣🤣🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/HREWttq1Ez
— Combat Learjet (@Combat_learjet) March 29, 2026
- Boy am I glad I’ve been married for over 20 years and don’t have to use airports for cold pick ups.
People standing in these lines are fools. This is not a premium experience. It’s a cattle call. Exactly why I dropped my AMEX. Most connections are under 2 hours and, by the time it’s your turn, it’s time to board. Delta has tricked people into thinking they receive a premium experience when what they get is a line at a soup kitchen.
What lemmings … or gluttons for punishment … After having suffered through an outrageous & inexcusable TSA experience, they opt for yet another line !! The first was mandatory, but the second was their choice …
Thank god for influencers. What a talented genius ! But she omitted the ‘trick’ employed by that infamous Senator Larry Craig in 2007 at a MSP men’s room… Maybe it was omitted cuz he failed at
“shooting his shot'” !! … LOL
What a waste of time after all the lines this past week. Yeah give me something else to remember flying can be a poopy experience.
I mean, it seems like Delta stans think paying 500K Skypesos to fly via Saudia is AOK, So clearly they are gluttons for punishment.
Why do people pay hundreds in annual fees so that they can stand in a soup kitchen line for some “free” food and drink ?
Just gotta be 360, Diamond, or First, and there’s a shorter line. The new LGA Terminal C SkyClub was also further expanded in the last year, new-ish outdoor space, so if it’s still full, wowza, folks must be going way too early still.
@Jon F — Saudia? Oof. I hope not…
Don’t you dare slam my premium carrier Delta
They are the only true luxury 5 star airline in North America.Even the line screams premium
All I hear is jealousy.Its clear it’s worth waiting hours for.Thats why I always pay whatever they ask for to fly.Consider yourself lucky to be a passenger!
@1990 flew through ATL tonight. Went to E SC. Line for D360, et al was thirty deep, even though @Tim Dunn says my experiences are “anecdotal.” There is no easy way in during peak travel times of the day.
It’s time for everyone to face facts, the SC is a glorified bus terminal at certain times of the day.
I’m not sure which is more retarded: standing in that line for your entire layover, just for maybe a few minutes to feed at the trough, or justifying paying a 2nd year+ $895 AF for those sweet sweet lounge benefits. If only we had a resident retard here who could give us a window into this mindset.
Effing retards. Will people ever wake up and realize they are being fleeced.
Must. Have. Premium. Experience.
Parker,
the key word is “certain times of day”
I have never said that DL never has lines.
coming up on 8 am on a Tuesday, 3 of the 8 DL SCs in ATL show quite busy while 5 are not busy or slightly busy. LGA is showing slightly busy.
and several airports are telling people to quit getting to the airport 4 plus hours early which is driving some of this crowding everywhere including in lounges.
Sorry to stand in line for free Wawa like food? Only to be also greeted by noise, crowds, and dirty bathrooms with a line for the stall.
WOW so much antipathy for people standing in line for a lounge. Who really cares why those people chose to wait in a line like that? One explanation may be that waiting to get into a lounge is still much better than idling around at a gate. Airport restaurants are way too expensive to be taken seriously. Given the choices between disgusting gate seating areas, extremely overpriced airport restaurant, and airline affiliated lounge, I’ll pick #3 every single time.
I’m only visiting lounges abroad (Brazil, Panama) where there’s no line, food is better, and there’s plenty of seating space and they allow to bring one guest plus any children. They take Priority Pass, so any card that gives that (Bilt Palladium probably the best proposition nowadays) work.
“When everyone’s special, no one is.”
@Tim Dunn what you did was dismiss my observations as “anecdotal.” You tried to gaslight and pretend DL’s SCs have no capacity issues. You do realize you make excuses, deflect and bury people in senseless data.
And, please….this has NOTHING to do with the TSA shutdown…more gaslighting. All the shutdown did was exacerbate problems already there. These lines have existed since COVID came to end and there is nothing you can say to refute the images of long lines at clubs everywhere from hubs to outstations to competitor fortress hubs.
This is the photo of the century . A line of programed degenerates. They deserve it. Maybe better they will stay in the lounge for the wine and miss the back row of their delta connection
@Tim Dunn — <> — yes — you are correct. At the “certain times of day” (technically a phrase, not a word) when people are actually transiting the airport, they want to get into the SkyClub and are finding long lines. Telling us that there are only lines at “certain times of day” isn’t terribly helpful. “Sure, there is a line at the SkyClub at 8 a.m. during my layover while I’m trying to be productive for 45 minutes. But not to worry. Delta Tim Dunn says there won’t be a line if I come back at 8 p.m. after I’m already home.”
Why do you bother with this nonsense? You’re not fooling anyone. Do you really think you are going to move Delta’s stock price with this kind of comment sludge?
I had a 3.5 hour ATC delay last night on my UAL flight to LGA. The online waitlist at the Centurion lounge at IAH was twenty minutes long, but it was worth the wait.
As to the Amex haters, the lounge access is the cherry on top of the cake for us. We recently got a 4 night, $250/night room upgrade at Milea Iguazu.