News and notes from around the interweb:

• “United served white wine to my two year old son” and refused to take it back.

  
  It’s a good thing United eliminated wine flights in business class, after all!

• Would you have guessed that Houston has more seats to Asia than Atlanta, and Newark more than Seattle? (Houston of course has EVA Air and ANA.) Via Airline Weekly which is now part of Skift.

  

• Air Italy is launching a Chicago – Milan flight. They will be the only airline flying this route, but Delta, American and United don’t think Air Italy should be able to fly to the U.S. that it’s unfair to them (Air Italy is part-owned by Qatar Airways, as is British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Iberia, LATAM, and Aer Lingus).

  Customer business does not belong to US airlines by right that mentality is exactly why we get the kind of air service we do. Nor should customers be expected to connect when an airline wants to offer non-stop service because US airlines are entitled to that revenue. That’s like the postal service raiding corporate mailrooms and fining companies for using Federal Express when items they’re sending weren’t truly urgent.

• Popeye’s sold emotional support chicken in the Philadelphia airport yesterday

  Sorry, Fido. Popeyes #EmotionalSupportChicken doesn’t bark on the plane. (Available in the Philadelphia airport on 12/18.) pic.twitter.com/vWyBWq4PTe

  — Popeyes Chicken (@PopeyesChicken) December 18, 2018

• Hilton hotel will give 28 homeless people free rooms and Christmas dinner after another hotel canceled their booking

• Wild MH370 conspiracy theory like something out of Millennium with Kris Kristofferson and Cheryl Ladd.