News and notes from around the interweb:

• When we’re tourists, we notice what’s different about the place we’re visiting. But what’s different about the United States from the perspective of an Indian who has come to America?

• Capital One 20% transfer bonus to Air France KLM Flying Blue through end of the month, while American Express is running a 25% bonus.

• Sun Country’s top executives went undercover as flight attendants

  “There were a couple policy issues that were a surprise,” Bricker said. “A couple things I wrote down that we need to change, that didn’t make sense to me.”

  …”It’s such a good idea that extending it to other jobs would be smart, too: baggage handlers, gate agents, and so forth,” Cappelli said. “CEOs get a much better sense of what is really going on that isn’t filtered by their marketing people. Also, it does a lot for the company’s employees to think that the CEO cares about the jobs they do.”

• What LaGuardia will look like when it’s finished. (HT: Jonathan W.) What happened to ferry boats to the Marine Air Terminal though? Still no reasonable public transit in the cards and even the ‘train to nowhere’ plan may get derailed. And no increased runway or airspace capacity.

• This twitter account is a must-follow.

  #OTD in 2011: LOT Flight 16, a B-767, makes a belly landing in Warsaw airport (Poland). All 231 aboard survive. Hydraulics failed and landing gear could not be deployed, jet was written-off. Enquiry pointed combination of mechanical failure, design issues, crew actions, others. pic.twitter.com/ci0Q3Uwjg8

  — Air Disasters #OTD by Francisco Cunha (@OnDisasters) October 31, 2021

• ALPA would never!

  @SouthwestAir this guy deserves a raise. Talk about a team player!!!! pic.twitter.com/O5tt6IcKEF

  — Melissa Monson (@divamelissa2013) November 1, 2021