News and notes from around the interweb:

• Delta copies American. American it seems was a leader in raising drink prices

• Inching towards a strike at British Airways

  

• Here’s what it takes to get a free breakfast from low cost carrier Frontier Airlines. (HT: Ryan)

  WHOA! My aunt snapped this pic of a shredded engine on Frontier flight 260 from Vegas to Tampa. The plane was able to turn around and land. She says all passengers got a free breakfast voucher. pic.twitter.com/vc4t4uxMmh

  — Dan Ponce (@DanPonceTV) November 30, 2018

• Kansas City promised not to use taxpayer funds investing in their new airport terminal — they lied. Oniie excuse is they aren’t raising taxes, they’re just borrowing the money! (HT: @danluttrell)

  “I think the problem is we were so adamant in this campaign for this airport that no general fund money, no taxpayer dollars would be used, and now we’re using them,” said Councilwoman Teresa Loar…

• Surveys about changes to benefits for United, Delta, and Hilton cards

• No, American Airlines isn’t going to make Cancun a hub. They may well grow their codesharing relationship with Interjet. And they are certainly emphasizing service to the city from their other hubs (and indeed Saturday service from former hubs Kansas City and Nashville). But people claiming Cancun will become a hub do not seem to know what the word hub means.

• Southwest wouldn’t let this man preboard — so he punched the gate agent