News and notes from around the interweb:
- Paraplegic United passenger had to scoot down the aisle on his butt. On his honeymoon. But he wasn’t being dragged, so…
- Marriott and Expedia are finalizing a new agreement and what’s inside could overhaul how hotels and online travel agency sites work.
Expedia Dancers. Flickr: Juggernautco - At sprawling HNA Group, formed out of Hainan Airlines and which owns other travel businesses, the fire sale to raise cash continues. China Development Bank is providing over half a billion dollars to make payments to creditors due January 20 while Hong Kong officials prepare for the possibility of Hong Kong Airlines’ collapse.
- Sun Country: Inside America’s Most Unusual Airline
- Buffalo, New York needs to pay people to visit in winter
- After only recently making the ‘c’ lower case, Mastcard’s logo now no longer has any words at all.
We usually don’t like to name drop, but we think we can make an exception… https://t.co/dBYylvH0MF pic.twitter.com/Qk2Qa4ZJlc
— Mastercard (@Mastercard) January 7, 2019
But…
My favorite thing about the new MasterCard logo is that they tried *so hard* to get rid of all the letters and keep it clean — but still couldn’t avoid adding a tiny yellow “TM” on the bottom right, like some kind of buzzing insect pic.twitter.com/4oVH391xup
— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) January 7, 2019
Extremely misleading headline, CNN. It’s a sweepstakes to visit Buffalo!
I wouldn’t go to buffalo in the summer either, even if they paid me
it is one of the most depressing cities of it’s size in the country
My bet is in 5-10 years:
Alaska and jetBlue merge, Allegiant and Sun Country merge, Frontier and Spirit merge. Its not like the DOJ can argue against them after they let the big four merge.
The paraplegic passenger has apoint busting United for the lack of a chair in Chicago and maybe the Dominican Republic but United isn’t responsible for the lack of a gate ramp there. I thin that is entirely the airport’s pervue…