News and notes from around the interweb:
- Taxpayers are giving Marriott $60 million to move from one building in Bethesda, Maryland to another.
- United offered $2000 in travel vouchers to volunteers to give up their seat, and there weren’t many takers
- American Airlines added 13 new regional jet routes starting in spring such as once weekly Dallas-Flagstaff, six New York JFK – Philadelphia in order to bring JFK passengers to where the airline will actually have international flights, and six routes out of Chicago.
- This can’t end well.
- Top 10 Airplane Things You Don’t Know The Purpose Of (but note at 6m25s that sidesticks are characteristic of Airbus aircraft, while Boeing uses a yoke insteak).
- I was hoping for a Boeing 777-300ER so that first class passengers could access Miami’s Flagship First Dining and the one in Los Angeles.. but lie flat seats are certainly better than the exclusive narrowbodies American has been running on the route.
You'll notice there's a wide body back on LAX-MIA-LAX once a day (a 772) starting next June. Expect it to stick around.
— JonNYC (@xJonNYC) December 17, 2017
Travel as a family of 4 including 2 children, we always been treated nicely and courteously by TSA agents. We wish them Merry Christmas & Happy New Year especially for working now during the heaving holiday season.
TSA agents are wrongly maligned as they are the first line of defense against some crazy right wing (always) terrorist or Trumpanzee taking out a jetliner. They have always been pleasant to me, sometimes engagingly so. It is wrong to belittle them as they have an important job. It you don’t think so just imagine what would happen if they weren’t there.
I see the TSA army came out to comment.
We have really nice TSA agents in Helena. I fly a lot, and it’s really a good start to your 5:25 AM (tomorrow) morning to deal with nice people. Just sayin’.
PS, I’m wondering about the heaving holiday season that @Kalboz is preparing for this year….
@Gary – an equipment swap to a 773 on MIA-LAX wouldn’t guarantee access to FF dining on its own. They’d have to explicitly amend the rules too, because as currently written that access is only allowed on the two specific city pairs named. The fact that AA doesn’t even grant AC access on this route for paid J makes me think that AA doesn’t consider it a “real” transcontinental flight anymore!
@CW – when they ran 3-cabin equipment on the route it was a true flagship route, if they brought back 3-cabin equipment i’d expect them to treat it the same way but of course it is not guaranteed.
$2k on a later UA flight is clearly not worth it…sad state of affairs at UA