News and notes from around the interweb:
- Yes, your crossbody counts as a personal item on a plane (but it shouldn’t).
A belt is part of your clothes, not a carry-on item. A belt that you can store items in is still a belt, and part of your clothes. A fanny pack worn across your body, basically a pocket as she says, is part of your clothes too.
Why? Because it doesn’t require overhead bin space (your full-sized carry-on) and it doesn’t require space underneath the seat in front of you (your personal item).
A man can wear cargo pants. Anyone can wear a jacket, even a heavy winter coat, and that doesn’t count against your carry-on allowance. So a crossbody shouldn’t, either.
- American Airlines wants to codeshare on Alaska’s new long haul flights to Europe and Asia but their pilot union says doing so violates the scope clause of their contract – that domestic codeshares are permitted, but not international.
Pilots figure that codesharing on Alaska might trade off with flights their airline would have them fly. Plus, if it’s in the contract it’s negotiating leverage.
American Airlines had planned an international hub at Seattle, moving their long haul flying up from Los Angeles. They were going to do Seattle to Bangalore, Shanghai and London Heathrow. That was the rationale for their amped-up ‘West Coast Alliance’ with Alaska Airlines. But it hasn’t panned out.
- Construction permit denied for new Cleveland Browns stadium becase it would obstruct air traffic (HT: @crucker)
- Refresh of British Airways First Wing starts Monday with work to be done overnights. Somehow it doesn’t seem like 8 years since the space opened.
- Here’s a good reason to actually clean planes – passengers on one flight leaving propoganda for those boarding the next one. Please actually pick up trash from seat pockets between trips!
after @AmericanAir delayed me for more than 12 hours and stonewalling me about compensation for the delay, I finally flew out of dc on flight 5656 to Milwaukee only to see find this in the seat pocket in front of me pic.twitter.com/YFTryHGcb3
— jpiss_esq (@dr_Jpissman) August 16, 2025
- Hotel management company Aimbridge is getting into all-inclusive resorts. Whatever property contracts they win are, in my view, hotels you’ll want to avoid.
Trash is right, Gary.
I’m not at all disagreed about how inappropriate the mesage left in the seat pocket was, but why was American interested in engaging in a DM about this but didn’t even care about the 12 HOUR DELAY !!! This is literally part of their culture now, and it’s sickening.
Your logic is flawed. A fanny pack is not a belt, a belt holds your pants up, a fanny pack does not. It’s a device with a primary purpose of holding other items, i.e. a bag, so it counts as your personal item, just like a purse (it is a man purse, or murse, after all, and I’d never be caught dead wearing one, but whatever)