News and notes from around the interweb:
- New contract that United flight attendants will vote on allows the airline to put them up in hotels that are merely in ‘tenantable’ condition and the union that negotiated it is in damage control mode:
Why not just use the same standard as the pilots and include safeguards for cities where the core business district isn’t ideal? This just sounds like a way to water down the language instead of strengthening it. Saying we “modeled” it doesn’t mean it’s equal …
Posts from the flightattendants
community on Reddit - Customers hate this with the intensity of 1,000 suns, yet no one is doing anything to improve the experience.
Thanks @AmericanAir for making us wait for our carry on bags because "The overhead bins are full." Great way to end a four hour delayed flight. pic.twitter.com/RW8YuoXdfS
— Brad Darnell (@BradDarnell6) June 21, 2025
- Saying please to someone so lacking in manners is “like putting an elevator in an outhouse, it don’t belong.”
- Have they tried turning it off and on?
Good sign before a long flight…
byu/SpaceDesignWarehouse inunitedairlines - What is appropriate compensation for this?
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- Atlanta airport’s planned ‘Slutty Vegan’ restaurant will be replaced by a Buffalo Wild Wings and Wu Tang Asian Kitchen.
- ‘I walked through TSA with an erection and nearly passed out when I saw what showed on the scanner’
I put my hands up and did the scanner, I look at the screen, and THERE IS A HUGE RED CIRCLE around my private area. I got pat down once, this is common at airports, I have a subcutaneous defibrillator in my chest but he went to my legs. Then he brought over his supervisor, he pat me down again and I said lowly “I was just with my girl my bad man” and he said you’re good to go.
Speaking of ‘slutty,’ that guy in the bulkhead has his feet above his head. Like, does he want to get f..ked? Folks, put ya darn feet down. Save it for ‘you time.’ Sheesh!
With all of the restaurant closings going on in Atlanta, look for further consolidation in the industry. Enter “Slutty Wild Wings” on Concourse (B)iotch…
LMAO. Sold out by your senior members. Loook for… the Union Label
Speaking of regime change, can we get Maduro out of Venezuela, soon, too? Would like to see Angel Falls someday. And the way they’ve threatened their neighbors, specifically Guyana is a big no-no. Let’s do it. CIA. In and out. 20 minutes adventure!
@ 1990. Angel Falls is great, worth the trouble. But what kind of lib are you who wants to send in the CIA? That is the cause of the trouble with Persia.
Finally, United staff are being treated the way they treat passengers.
What does the United Article have to do with miles and points. Why do we keep hearing about this Union contract? They have been negating for many years. This is a deal hat was bargained in good faith. No more articles on the topic
@Trk1 so when you fly United and the surly FA spits in your coffee you’ll realize it might have something to do with spending the night in some fleabag hotel next to some slutty people @1990 and @Captain Freedom seem to know and that I like to hang out with.
Seriously, FAs are business travelers too and they deserve better than this.
@Parker Lighten up, Francis…
@Captain Freedom – please reread with an internal voice that has a snarky tone. Less serious then.
This is a travel blog. I literally take very few things seriously on here. I’m just blunt.
tell the truth, 1990.
Maybe it’s a PNW thing to have those legs elevated like that.
and, yeah, Parker is serious. Treating the people that are supposed to provide service like fleas has a negative impact.
I told you all months ago that UA is headed for a train wreck regardless of how the vote turns out.
@Trk1 — VFTW is not merely a points and miles blog, it’s the opinions of a thought leader on the related industries, and then a bunch of wackos like us commenting and bantering.
If you want no-nonsense, quick updates and tutorials on the points and miles ‘hobby,’ please consider DoC (doctor of credit). Respect.
And if you just want corporate shilling, please consider TPG. *burp*
@Parker — Mhm. I’ll never understand folks that have ‘means’ yet choose to treat others poorly, especially those serving them literal food and beverage. Like, I’ve gotten food poisoning a few times in my life; it’s rare, but unforgettable. What I mean is, I’m not asking for more of that. Let’s pay workers more; let’s treat them well.
@Jack the Ladd — Welp, I can get impatient, so I may just have to go anyway. Besides, think of all the refreshing hyperinflation! Ahh… Have seen Niagara, Iguazu, and Vic Falls, so Angel’s been on my to-do list.
@Tim Dunn — You might be onto something. They say, ‘keep Portland weird,’ which was ironically inspired by Austin, Texas. We wouldn’t forget, Gary!
@L737 — Did you catch the quote above (in the section on the guy with his legs up)? It’s from Road House, the film. Patrick Swayze should probably bounce that fool for putting those feet up. And, if you recall, Peter Griffin can’t help but say variations of ‘road house’ as a returning bit in Family Guy. Ah, the comedic and cultural cross-references. Rowhouse!
@1990 — Oh I missed that at first, haha! Peter was a worthy imitator. “Geeet off my plane” “Keep the change” [To Peanuts Lucy] “I did some checking around, you’re not a licensed therapist!” Classic!
Customers (especially leisure ones, or those who buy gifts etc) hate fees to check-in baggage with the intensity of 1,000 suns, yet no one is doing anything to improve the experience.
Wow, look at all those empty bins! It would have taken 10+ minutes for passengers with the equivalent number of bags to fill them up (vs no time to load the same amount of bags on the hold).
It’s great that the airline decided to depart ontime instead!!
Moving from Slutty Vegan to BWW is a huge downgrade for the airport.
@L737 — “It’s message is timeless!”
@1990. Regime change in Venezuela? No the people flee and then fly their flags and put “SOS Venezuela” on their cars here in Florida. Still waiting for the uprising in Cuba.
@Coffee Please — So, you’re in-favor of Castro and Maduro regimes? No me gusta, cabrón.
@1990. Nope. I just don’t like people fleeing their country and then puffing out their chest, flying flags, talking smack. Butch up and overthrow your government. Just like the US did with the Brits many years ago.
I say the FA should stay in the same hotels that PAX stay in when they are overnighted.
No double standards. Let them sleep with the low lifes.