News and notes from around the interweb:
- In fairness, many passengers are – in fact – stupid.
Paperwork rejected by engineering. Brought the jet bridge in, added white tape to mark where they put the red tape. Took photo with their phones. @united flight attendants talk loudly with gate agent about how stupid passengers are. pic.twitter.com/CMzViGH3ZK
— Andy Hawk (@cuskibum) October 4, 2024
- Delta is growing to 968 peak daily flights out of Atlanta for summer 2025. Southwest Airlines, which once acquired Atlanta-based AirTran, is massively pulling back there. This move isn’t just about greater hub connectivity of course… it lets Delta grab freed up Southwest Airlines gates and keep out new competition.
This isn’t the largest hub operation ever, of course. American Airlines, for instance, broke 1,000 flights for Thanksgiving 2019 at DFW adding a middle of the night bank.
- Chase Sapphire Reserve cardholders have new access to Air Canada lounges when flying on a Star Alliance flight. 17 lounges are included, guests cost fifty nine of whatever the local currency is. Show your card with boarding pass for entry.
And you definitely want to eat in the lounge because this is what you’d buy on board:
I was robbed on an Air Canada flight
byu/Professional_Trip217 inaircanada - Marriott rooms manager: don’t expect a better upgrade than the bride if you book in a wedding party’s block (HT: H.G.)
If you are at a hotel for a wedding, and you want a suite, I can’t give you a better suite than whatever the bride has. A basic suite or any suite under the category that the bride has? If I have it available, sure! But trust me, it’s best for everyone involved if we keep the brides happy.
- Oh, Air India
Found a cockroach in the omelette served to me on the @airindia flight from Delhi to New York. My 2 year old finished more than half of it with me when we found this. Suffered from food poisoning as a result. @DGCAIndia @RamMNK pic.twitter.com/1Eyc3wt3Xw
— Suyesha Savant (@suyeshasavant) September 28, 2024
- The annual LAX holiday moratorium on film, TV and commercial shoots starts earlier than usual this year
- 25% off Southwest Airlines awards this weekend.
In a job that requires a lot of decorum like flight attendant you don’t talk about how stupid your customers are in front of those same customers.
Since when have talking coke machines displayed decorum. Most of the US carriers are fat, loud, and stupid. Like the passengers, I’ve never witnessed such pathetic slobs in my life.
And they demand a 6-figure salary, for a talking coke machine!
Bugs in food is a thing that happens. You don’t want to know what the acceptable level of rat feces in cereal is.
Extremely unlikely that anyone gets food poisoning because there was a bug in their food. It’s un-appetizing, but not hazardous. Somebody just angling for clicks.
In fairness, most (not just many) FAs are stupid. How else can you go through life doing an unskilled labor job extremely poorly, while convincing yourself your job is super important?