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It can both be true that (1) most of the revenue and operations focus is on the core airline and (2) most of the profit and valuation is driven by the loyalty program. This is true for American Airlines: https://viewfromthewing.com/new-report-says-aadvantage-is-worth-4x-mor…

Elliot Management took a position in the company to squeeze them. https://www.elliottmgmt.com/ https://old.reddit.com/r/SouthwestAirlines/comments/1ji79zt/elliott_ma… https://viewfromthewing.com/activist-investor-elliott-management-expec…

Ghana has a particularly sensitive outlook on these things. They threatened to ban BA from flying there for having the temerity to place Accra flights out of Gatwick rather than Heathrow. (https://viewfromthewing.com/ghana-threatens-to-effectively-ban-british… It is worth noting that the airframe in question has flown perfectly fine subsequent to the ban.

> So who do you think managed to stuff $22 billion Well congress ultimately, but as far as actual influence? Maybe start with: Labor unions, manufacturers throughout the supply chain, maintenance vendors - you know entities with actual money and financial interests. Also, local constituents and representatives where the train service happens to go, like it or not the train service is hugely important to the chamber of commerce in general of a place like Syracuse for instance where an air carrier just pulled out and one of those destinations is Chicago - it matters not much from optics that the journey takes longer than 100 years ago. The idea that the “train geeks” have anything measurable to do with it doesn’t pass any smell test. Moreover, the companies and organizations that are involved and do exist don’t magically disappear in any imagined privatization future. I also have a hard time believing that a motley bunch of train geeks somehow has any pull over the ReDUcE GoVERNmENT SpENDInG crowd. > We could privatize Amtrak next year and they could follow that same business plan The NEC corridor still needs billions of dollars of upgrades and maintenance. Again that is something that the public sector has almost invariably footed the bill on. As for your initial thesis in this comment, it’s straight up garbage that has been discussed to death, and you have to assume I’m an uninformed moron to believe it uncritically. I’m not going to repeat this:…

Just a couple of months ago, someone was still suing[1] to block Alaska Air/Hawaiian. This is a merger that already entirely went through. I would predict equal likelihood of some state lawsuit derailing a merger like this. [1] https://viewfromthewing.com/passengers-demand-court-undo-alaskas-hawai…

RWSL were red in the video. https://viewfromthewing.com/__trashed-13/ So maybe we'll be looking at training and fatigue for the firefighters too

> Closed shops are already illegal in the US I do wonder what country American Airlines operates in then… https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-fired-two-flight-attenda…

There are some other pictures circulating showing the exterior of the aircraft. It definitely appears something hit the aircraft. There is a skid mark on the frame around the window.[1] Will be interesting to read if an investigative report is made public. [1]https://viewfromthewing.com/new-cockpit-photos-may-show-what-struck-th…

https://viewfromthewing.com/did-space-debris-hit-a-united-flight-over-… More unconfirmed images here: https://img.pr0gramm.com/2025/10/18/90eed05d6c29e0ce.png

More info here https://viewfromthewing.com/united-captain-says-his-plane-was-hit-by-s…

A unique identifier would've helped: https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-flew-passengers-on-the-w… Almost comical that it happened 1 day after this was posted.

More context - https://viewfromthewing.com/diversity-in-the-skies-faas-controversial-…

She (Deltalina, née Katherine Hinton [0]) makes a little cameo in the current iteration, celebrating 100 years of that airline’s service: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnOLUnExHvw&t=1m42s [0] https://viewfromthewing.com/delta-rarely-interacts-with-customers-onli…

> This might not be new or exclusive to Canada - it's just the first I've noticed it. Not Canada-only: > So sorry for the disappointment with the carryon requirements. Please know that your fanny pack is considered a personal item and must be stowed properly during taxi, takeoff, and landing. Still, we understand the frustration and have documented your concern. * https://twitter.com/SouthwestAir/status/1796641027924889819 * https://viewfromthewing.com/stupid-airline-carry-on-rules-if-its-on-yo… It may be a case of people abusing things and instead of a 'small' pack, they have a 'regular' purse and are trying to call it fanny pack. Then actually have a purse / personal item and a carry-on.

The problem with ATC is that they changed from a skills based assessment to a biographical one. This is no joke. They had an explicit goal of increasing ATC diversity so they passed over hundreds of people who took the previously traditional route and graduated from FAA Air Traffic University Programs. Those candidates still had to pass the training but they have had a much higher attrition rate. So despite increased hiring ATC continues to be understaffed. https://viewfromthewing.com/diversity-in-the-skies-faas-controversial-…

They aren’t referring to the client side of this question. Airline websites generally have the quality of any generic corporate IT project… I assume what the parent was referring to is the backend systems like Sabre that coordinates travel and ticketing between airlines, travel agents, etc. It is a truly ancient system by today’s standards, with origins in the 1960s and mainframes. Systems like this actually have started to limit what airlines can do and how many flights they can manage. See: https://viewfromthewing.com/airlines-are-running-out-of-flight-numbers…

Answered in this comment by “hagbard celine” under the article: https://viewfromthewing.com/airlines-are-running-out-of-flight-numbers…

There are eyewitness accounts all over the net. Here's a (viral) photo of 20 wheelchairs at FLL, 17 of them ran off the plane: https://x.com/trendready/status/1672734536545841153 There was someone on Reddit that counted 45. Other accounts from last December, noting the trend and including SWA's reply that they don't challenge the validity of people in wheelchairs: https://viewfromthewing.com/priority-boarding-scandal-is-southwest-air…

Possibly this? https://viewfromthewing.com/the-astonishing-reasons-your-global-entry-…

According to this, that pay structure has been generally supported by flight attendant unions, as it benefits more senior members, though at the expense of more junior ones: https://viewfromthewing.com/why-flight-attendants-havent-gotten-paid-f…

The case you are referring to on the missing safety features is probably this one, renting recalled vehicles: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/consumer-products/reca… > Don't do business with Hertz, they will call the cops on you. Even that is not enough: "Hertz Is Even Sending People To Jail That Never Rented Cars From Them" - https://viewfromthewing.com/hertz-is-even-sending-people-to-jail-that-…

is there really a point to showing ID to fly, something that was spurred on not by 9/11 but by the loss of TWA 800 in the 90s iirc? edit: > the rule was a ‘do something’ reaction during the Clinton administration in response to TWA flight 800, before anyone had any idea what had happened to the aircraft. https://viewfromthewing.com/42388/

Does this "we can't find the documentation" match what the whistleblower was saying in Jan? https://viewfromthewing.com/boeing-whistleblower-production-line-has-e… It doesn't really seem like it?

Oh yes, a while ago the Chinese airline Air China wanted to fly from New York to Beijing over Russian airspace (the shortest path does involve Russian airspace) but the U.S. government prohibited them from doing that as a matter of fairness. The end result is that the Chinese airline had to operate a domestic flight from New York to Los Angeles in order to fly to Beijing. https://viewfromthewing.com/air-china-has-filed-to-fly-new-york-to-los…

Also this article just hit the front page today: https://viewfromthewing.com/boeing-whistleblower-production-line-has-e… The worry is that Airbus is ALSO going to be affected by this shitty quality, not that Boeing isn't totally fucked by its outsourcing to Spirit Aerosystems.

A little known fact is that for hotels constructed in New York City "before July 1, 1969 which cost less than $88 per week or $350 per month on May 31, 1968" are subject to a law that states that guests are entitled to become a permanent tenant by requesting a lease of six months or more, and hotels are generally barred from preventing such people from doing such that. There's someone who has been trying to claim ownership through this mechanism of the New Yorker hotel across from Penn Station, with surprising amounts of success: https://viewfromthewing.com/new-york-city-transfers-hotel-deed-to-gues…

Couldn't agree more. https://viewfromthewing.com/american-airlines-passenger-dragged-off-fl… Here's United Express for comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_removal Lufthansa busted for "losing" checked bags when the checked bags had airtags - the customer told Lufthansa exactly where to look. Lufthansa banned airtags and then reversed course: https://www.macworld.com/article/1347964/lufthansa-airtags-ban-luggage…

When the person taking my credit card at the drive thru hands me the little machine and tells me which button to push for 15, 18 or 20% tip...and watching me until I hand it back...yeah its expected. In case you didn't see this story... https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/tipping-culture-etiquette-ice… ...there is an attitude spreading that tipping is necessary. https://viewfromthewing.com/austin-airport-shop-demands-tip-when-buyin… Oh...and the Burgerville union demanding that tips be pushed in the drive thru... https://www.coworker.org/petitions/we-demand-tips-in-the-drive-thru Another article about it... https://thinkingoregon.org/2022/04/23/heres-a-tip-to-businesses-stop-d…

There was an interesting article on United’s new family seating policy, allows families traveling with children under 12 to sit together automatically with no added fees by default. Sounded like a decent way of identifying when sitting together actually would be optional for most people. https://viewfromthewing.com/uniteds-new-family-seating-policy-helps-cu…

This. https://viewfromthewing.com/hertz-has-the-most-insane-reason-for-not-d…