News and notes from around the interweb:
- A genius speaks. Tucker Carlson is afraid to fly with a vaccinated pilot. (Surely he isn’t actually afraid, he’s grifting.) I don’t think you can trust this clip on ‘the science’ when his guest advancing the claim says she’s proven that increased heart trouble amount pilots has been proven “to a 98% plus or minus 4.”
Tucker Carlson says he does not want to fly in a plane with vaccinated pilots because he thinks it’s too dangerous. pic.twitter.com/mgF2va71Wq
— Yashar Ali (@yashar) March 27, 2025
- Texas man arrested in American Airlines groping incident, banned from flying on planes (HT: Cheryl)
- Feisty 106-year Texan speaks out against ageism at airports: “I know what’s going on!” (HT: Paul H)
- Be Relax Spas has opened two locations at the Charlotte airport. Here’s the important things for readers to know.
- The location in the D connector has been refurbished, and the one in the A connector is new. Only the A location accepts Priority Pass.
- Chase-issued Priority Passes (Sapphire Reserve, Ritz-Carlton Card, JP Morgan Reserve) include access – while Amex and Capital One-issued Priority Pass cards do not.
Be Relax Spa, DFW Airport
Be Relax Spa, DFW Airport - In texts, Gov. JB Pritzker expressed doubts about Mayor Brandon Johnson amid rumors United Airlines might move
“Susana. You should already know that I am on top of this as well as anyone,” Pritzker texted Mendoza on Feb. 12 after she reached out to him to raise concerns about a United move. “I have been in constant conversation with United for more than two years, and their CEO and their lobbyist have assured me that they do not intend (anytime in the foreseeable future) to leave Chicago.”
Then the governor remarked: “Meanwhile, as you know the state has almost nothing to do with O’Hare so you (redacted) should make sure the Mayor doesn’t do anything to push them out.”
“I know you’re on top of it,” Mendoza replied, as she implored Pritzker to continue his dialogue with the airline. “Right now you have the loudest adult voice in the room to reassure these important businesses that we value them as strategic partners.”
“In absence of any semblance of competency coming out of the 5th floor,” Mendoza wrote, referring to the location of Johnson’s office in City Hall, “I don’t blame them for positioning themselves as potentially looking at other opportunities, even if that’s not the case. I do believe they’re committed to Chicago and that you’ve had these conversations with them. I’m just reaching out to you to ask you to keep that up.”
- Starting Sunday, two Alaska Airlines flights will operate out of the American Airlines terminal 8 at New York JFK
Beginning March 30, 2025, Alaska Airlines flights AS41 and AS25 will operate from Terminal 8. Check in and drop your bags at the T8 Alaska counter, then go through security to reach your gate. First Class guests on flights departing from Terminal 8 are welcome in the Admirals Club.
- D$5 bonus for bookings made with GHA Discovery app extended through June 30. (HT: Loyalty Lobby) I remember when airlines used to give bonus miles just for booking online.
Tucker Carlson is a moron. I’m surprised any normal person is still paying attention to him.
What a nutjob. Even if the “worst case scenario” anti-vax nonsense was all 100% true, the difference in risk between vaccinated and unvaccinated pilots would be miniscule (…especially given commercial flights have a pilot and copilot. Does he thing they’ll have simultaneous heart attacks?) Of course he is as you say grifting, unless he never flies or only flies on some private jet with his own pilot… since one doesn’t usually get a chance to talk to the pilot and co-pilot on your flight, and they’re probably not going to just give you their medical information.
The “hoops” that 106-year old lady has to jump through were not described. What exactly is her beef? She gets additional scrutiny because the computer system thinks that she’s 6 years old? So what? Is she missing her flights? Is she being strip searched? What exactly is the big deal?
@Gennady no he’s not. He’s a sleezebag douche conman who makes a living out of keeping his viewers angry and scared. If he was a moron I would at least respect him. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
98%+4% =102%
@Gary – Has AS announced any timetable for all AS JFK T7 flights to migrate to T8, as T6 completion and T7 demolition dates get closer?
It’s intuitively obvious to the casual observer that vaccines turn people into vampires, and as Herschel Walker the second stupidest (see Tommy Tuberville) Republican running for Senator in the last round said, he’d rather be a werewolf than a vampire. Good thing their party is trying to abolish the Department of Education.
@PDT – not that i am aware of
Haha, I needed a good laugh. Thank you for sharing that clip of Tucker.
It is indeed absurd. No one should care what a pilot ‘believes’ or does in their personal time, so long as they can fly safely and harm no one in the process.
I still remember the days when he was at CNN ‘Crossfire,’ even PBS for a moment, then MSNBC, of all places. He’s clearly a grifter, who will stoop so low as to literally go to Russia to do propaganda for Putin. If only he had tried Aeroflop, rather than just fondling groceries in a Moscow supermarket.
I think that the 106 year old lady is onto something. Poor programming commonly leaves outliers to deal with problems that the poor programming caused. I sometimes deal with this daily. Say I want to check the description and price of an item in the USA when I am out of the country. A lot of retailers purposely block my IP address. Then I have to run the VPN which mostly works but sometimes doesn’t. Dealing with my HMO is sometimes a problem when I am out of the country. Buying an airplane ticket from an overseas company for an overseas flight is sometimes a problem because the programming doesn’t allow perfectly good Mastercard and Visa credit cards to be used. Then I have to buy the exact same ticket on Expedia using one of the rejected credit cards.
Some of these comments are just hilarious. Carlson and his Junior Nazi Brigade really do deserve the scorn. He has always been bow tie guy wanting to be William F. Buckley. His all time petti fascist hero. He named his kid after him!
PDT: Starting March 30th, AS will operate 3 arrivals and 2 departures daily from T8 (the last T8 arrival will remain overnight and be towed to T7), then starting October 22nd all AS flights will operate from T8. Primary gates at T8 will be 32 and 33.
Most pilots are jabbed so I’m not sure how he could fly with one that isn’t and moreover how would he know if they were jabbed. And this is from someone that refused the jab and for good reason.
Tucker Should fly Aeroflot.
Exactly George! Most –if not all – pilots ARE jabbed.
The way I feel about it–there are two pilots in the cockpit- Heaven forbid somehing happens to the first one, we have the second one to land the plane. This shouldn’t even be a story.
I wouldn’t fly on a plane with Tucker Carlson; too stupid
@ Andy. Did you spend a lot of time working on that extemporaneous comment? Tucker Carlson is not an airline pilot, not many broadcast personalities are.
How exactly does he intend to know the vaccination status of the pilots?
Conservatives only want white men in the cockpit. And unvaccinated ones at that now. Just keep upping the outrage bar to get that sweet sweet social media $$$
Every single thing, and I mean every single thing, that the left wing ‘elites’ told the American people about COVID was a lie. Fauci and his science deniers deliberately lied about the source of COVID, lied about the 6 foot distancing rule, lied that the vax would prevent you from getting COVID, lied that the vax had no side effects, lied that masks protect you, lied that the vaccinated could not spread COVID to others, and on and on.
Nothing has changed. To this day, the Orwellian Left worships at the altar of fake science and takes zero responsibility for the death toll, mental health struggles, and ruining a generation of students who still lag far behind on grade level achievement.
Compare the lunatic actions of U.S. democrats to Sweden. Sweden pursued natural immunity and suffered NONE of the negative consequences. Sweden chose REAL science, not political delusion designed to protect Communist China.
@What Evil Lurks Behind the Mask — You appear to have misspelled Elon’s last name. It’s m-u-s-k. Like, it’s a ‘u’ not an ‘a’… oh, never mind.
On the pandemic, you do remember who was President from December 2019 (when the virus was first identified) through January 20, 2021, right? #45, that’s who. The entire first 14 months of COVID was your dude, not ‘the left.’ And it was rough. Far too many preventable deaths in the United States, specifically, mostly due to His mismanagement of that first year. I will say, Operation Warp Speed was by His administration, and I’m grateful that they pulled that off, for all our sake, because those vaccines did save lives.
I lived in NYC through those horrors. I saw the refrigerator trucks with bodies. High-quality masks did help, but were not perfect (and there weren’t enough supply for a while). The vaccines do help reduce severe cases, but are not perfect. Regardless of partisanship, good, decent people tried their best during those difficult years. Please do not spread your conspiracy theories here.
Your comparison to Sweden, a country with universal healthcare and significantly less population (and density), is not a good comparison to the United States. Even so, the deaths per capital rank US at 17th (3.5 deaths per million), Sweden at 35th (2.7), so not that different. The worldwide average was 0.8, highest Peru at 6.6, lowest are mostly island nations like Vanuatu or relatively young, poor populations like in Burundi. The reality is that many Americans have underlying health issues, like obesity, diabetes, heart disease, etc., so regardless, they were at higher risk as-is. Unfortunately, your theory, the ‘natural’ way, would have lead to even more deaths in the United States.
Where I am with you, in a very limited way, is that the CCP is definitely to blame in-part for their failure to adequately notify, contain, and prepare the rest of the world for what was about to hit us. It was really Chinese travelers going to Europe, and then Europeans/Americans traveling onward to the USA in early 2020 that seeded the virus here, especially in NYC, which was hit exceptionally hard by April 2020. I wish that we would not embrace a collective amnesia and move on so quickly from the pandemic–there were real lessons to learn from it, and we should be preparing for the next one. Regrettably, China has not taken responsibility, and the USA has backed out of the WHO, so next time is bound to get messy quick. But, please, it’s not ‘the left’ to blame, nor is it ‘the right,’ simply, pandemics are awful, and there likely will be more to come. Let’s do better next time.
I doubt anyone cares, but, honestly, I miss the days where our ‘enemy’ was mostly external, like the vague threat of ‘communists’ abroad, mostly 1945-1990ish, or earlier, defeating external fascism, like 1930/40s, which somewhat united us. Of course, there was always disparity and injustice at home, and there still is today.
Whereas, these days, it really is a different kind of awful that this ‘enemy from within’ nonsense has taken hold (left vs. right, with the extremes of each pulling us apart). We, in the US, are not immune to such horrible thinking–it’s a human problem. Civil wars happen, have occurred here, and are definitely ongoing in many parts of the world. Those are real people, too. They breathe, eat, dream, and pray. For the last few decades, other than a few direct attacks, it’s mostly been proxy wars. Yet, all that seems to really be catching up to us here.
Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy the banter on here. I respect Gary’s openness on expressing our thoughts on most topics. And I hope and expect others to ‘sling’ whatever they’d like my way. And it is really ‘all fun and games,’ until there’s actual violence. I’d prefer to respectfully disagree and debate on-substance instead.
We’ll see how long we get. Nothing lasts forever. 250 years is a pretty good run (by most standards). The Roman Empire’s Julio-Claudian dynasty (27 BC to 68 AD) was about 200. Tang Dysnasty 250+, Ottomans (hundreds), British (same). ‘Nice while it lasted!’