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If you’re in line for the Delta Sky Club to watch Steve Kornacki analyze election returns on a wall of 9 TVs with a glass of $4 wine, STAY IN LINE
He should’ve got the Mercedes Benz suv. They usually have 2-4 there. It 1000% was a great rental over the Jeep for me.
Hertz President’s Circle elite status is included with several top travel cards – and this staffer put it to the test 🚗 bit.ly/4BA1K9n
Once heard an older guy tell a young disrespectful young man “It’s 542pm but you can make the 6pm if you keep on with me”.
I still think about that devious comeback.
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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IONNA has seen a number of CCS charging station handles, localized particularly in the Midwest, with a bent ground pin.
This could cause subsequent damage to vehicles that would plug in after the affected car / adapter damaged the CCS connector.
What they are doing to stop this spreading is really interesting:
Daily health checks from an IONNA Employee in IN, IL, OH, MO
Complete network / country wide connector physical health check at every site nearly complete just after a few days 😮
They have ordered every adapter available on the market to test and retest to make sure it’s not a problem that could be linked to a new part
What you should do:
- Inspect every connector / inlet before plugging into CCS. This could spread to all networks / stations if not caught in time
- If you find a bent pin please tell me, @tommolog or @ionnaofficial and we will disable that connector and it’ll be replaced ASAP
Right now this is impacting an incredibly small number of users but to squash the problem we’ve got to get ahead of the spread. Thanks!
ionna.com/blog/an-update/
I’m wondering what made @McDonalds remove the customization of no ice in the app order flow?
Half and half sweet tea lemonade now list no options to have no ice. @McFranchisee it’s the only drink I get besides coffee or water nowadays.
Forget emails. This stuff is exactly why you have the city attorney send it certified mail to the company and their attorney.
The cities can’t be this new to the ball game. They’re 100% stalling it when then can mysteriously fix in hours or days but takes months to remove a cam.
Dayton, Minnesota voted 5 to 0 to cancel its Flock contract.
August 25.
Three weeks later Flock generated a maintenance work order.
The city replied the next day. Program is on hold. No work orders.
Flock reinstalled two cameras anyway.
And put them in service.
The city found out because residents noticed cameras back on the poles.
Flock took five days to even acknowledge the cancellation.
Then said removing the equipment would take 60 days.
Installing them took a work order.
Removing them takes two months.
Plymouth had the same problem.
Flock ignored the cancellation notice for almost two weeks.
So the police chief walked over and unplugged the cameras himself.
Crystal's police chief removed the cameras and the poles personally.
They're sitting in a police garage now.
Waiting for Flock to pick them up.
Like a vendor who dropped off a couch and never came back for it.
Flock's statement says they respect the cities' decisions.
And they're working to have the cameras removed.
Reports can't say if Flock ignored the order or if the message just never reached the install team.
Which is somehow the better version.
Either the company defied the city.
Or the company doesn't know which of its own customers cancelled.
Their CEO says the backlash isn't real.
Five Minnesota cities just voted it into existence.
And the cameras kept coming back like a bad subscription.
No miles, takes a seat from the upgrade list but still pays United and beats buy up options. Wow.
The comments begging grok to side with them is hilarious
Downtown Minneapolis just took a MASSIVE hit...
The Royal Sonesta, an upscale 360 room hotel, just sold for just $5M - a BRUTAL 93% 'discount' from its $75M purchase price in 2018
That's just ~$14K per room, down from ~$208K just 8 years ago...
Here's the interesting part:
The location is genuinely prime by downtown Minneapolis standards
It's an upscale, 4-star property in the HEART of DT Minneapolis, steps from Nicollet Mall and connected to the city's skyway system
It's genuinely WILD seeing hotels like this being sold at 90%+ discounts, even knowing what's driving these sales...
What does the future hold for Minneapolis?
Stay tuned and follow for more commercial real estate deals trading at massive discounts
The regional fleet had an EoL service. They had no choice but to find something.
United Airlines CEO in new interview on @Starlink:
"We were only going to do 65% of our fleet, but once we put it on our first aircraft, I got these anecdotes saying, 'I'm switching to flying regional 'cause it's got Starlink.' Then I was like, 'Holy cow, we gotta go all-in.'"
Who dispatches and how wild will this B044 be 🫣
Alaska is going to fly a 737 from Anchorage to Tokyo. It's one of the most surprising route moves I've seen in years.
The route just showed up on Alaska's website: Anchorage to Tokyo Narita, daily in summer, on a 737 MAX 8. Anchorage is offering about $500,000 in fee breaks to get it.
Anchorage used to be the stop on the way to Tokyo. During the Cold War, flights between Europe and Japan refueled there because they couldn't cross the Soviet Union. Northwest flew Anchorage-Tokyo in the 1990s too. Once Russia opened its airspace and planes could fly farther, nobody needed the stop.
So why now? In Tokyo you can connect to Japan Airlines, Alaska's partner, for the rest of Japan and Asia. And Anchorage doesn't have to fill the plane by itself. Alaska flew nonstop to Anchorage from 16 cities this summer, from Boston to Honolulu. I'd expect more of those, timed to connect to Tokyo.
On paper it's 3,425 miles. Alaska's longest MAX 8 flight today is Seattle to Reykjavik at 3,611. But the shortest path runs right past Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, and U.S. airlines can't fly over Russia. Swing around that and you're past 3,750 miles. The diversion airports on the way are places like Cold Bay and Adak.
I also wanted to see what else a MAX 8 could reach from Anchorage. Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, and Nagoya are all closer than Seattle-Reykjavik. Osaka, Seoul, and Beijing only fit inside Boeing's 4,028-mile maximum, which is a best case. Shanghai and Taipei are out.
If Tokyo works, Sapporo is the next one. It's 420 miles closer.
ALT Map of Alaska Airlines' nonstops into Anchorage from 16 U.S. cities, the new Anchorage-Tokyo Narita 737 MAX 8 route, and dotted lines from Anchorage to other Asian airports, with two range lines: 3,611 miles (Alaska's longest MAX 8 flight, Seattle-Reykjavik) and 4,028 miles (Boeing's maximum). Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, and Nagoya fall inside the shorter line; Osaka, Seoul, Fukuoka, and Beijing only inside Boeing's maximum; Shanghai and Taipei are out of reach.
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Everyone else in Amex Lounges is a low class reject.
Not you, though. The $895 you paid made you more special.
I’m done with @AmericanExpress platinum card. It was worth $900 a year when you could get into lounges with it. There was some exclusivity.
Now every low class reject gets in. An hour waitlist and then when you finally get in, it’s people on speakerphone, screaming, acting like it’s a Carnival cruise.
Amex has been enshittified. I’ll save my 895 bucks a year.
