News and notes from around the interweb:
- If there’s one piece of travel advice you take away from this site, it’s that you should always wear shoes to the lav.
today on our flight a passenger got upset with the crew because her socks were wet after using the lav… which she went to without shoes on. she failed to see how any of this was her fault.
— TWO GUYS ON A PLANE (@twoguysonaplane) April 8, 2023
You want shoes on during takeoff and landing, because those are the moments on board when you might have to evacuate an aircraft. You want something on your feet whenever they touch the ground of the poorly-cleaned aircraft. But yo want shoes on for sure when you walk into the lavatory. And you probably want to sanitize them when you reach your destination – because of your fellow passengers.
- I sure wish this had happened during the 18 years I lived in the DC area.
- “Sure, American had a really, really bad day in early February, but since then Delta has been consistently running a worse airline. …It also appears that while American recovered quite quickly from its meltdown, Delta has gotten really poor at recovering and one event just flows into another.” (HT: JonNYC)
- ‘With inflation and poverty soaring in Argentina, people are taking shelter in Buenos Aires airport’ (HT: Paul H)
- San Francisco elite status: “frequent flyers”
We moved out of San Francisco to Menlo Park a year ago after two meth addicts broke into our house while we were home and robbed us. They are both free now. The police who arrested them — and were later forced to release them by the DA — said these criminals were "frequent…
— Nat Friedman (@natfriedman) April 8, 2023
Waiting to see the “hack”. If “wear shoes” is the hack then investment firms hate this one simple trick: “add low, trim high”.
Gary – As a former Montrealer who has lived in DC since the bagel dark ages of the 90s, I can attest to the fact that you are missing out on the emergence of a legitimate local bagel culture – one of the region’s greatest culinary triumphs, considering the starting point. Next time you’re in town, try the bagels at Bread Furst on Connecticut Ave. Bullfrog and CYM are indeed very good, but I’m with Joan Nathan – Furstenberg has topped them all.
“Frequent flyer” has been slang in law enforcement, fire service, emergency medical services, and hospital emergency departments for at least the last twenty years for individuals who were encountered often enough to be recognized.
Isn’t this why one gets disposible socks in the amenity kit in Business Class?
The “real hack” is to have a pair of those slippers that hotels provide to guests in your carry-on. Wear them after take-off and just leave them on the aircraft after the flight. Even most airlines’ business class amenities do not include slippers!