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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.
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KNIGHT NATION!!!!!!!
A massive shout out to YOU for respecting our equipment. The goalposts are safe, all of our equipment is accounted for, and we’re in a good spot to get ready for Space Game prep.
WHAT A KNIGHT! ⚔️⚔️⚔️
So weird the need to mention Trump always.
Prior notices went out without a peep about the sitting president in it. transportation.gov/briefing-…
🔴 Air France et KLM sanctionnées aux États-Unis pour des vols dans des espaces aériens interdits.
Le Département américain des Transports inflige 425 000 $ d’amendes cumulées aux deux compagnies :
▫️ Air France : 105 000 $
▫️ KLM : 320 000 $
En cause : plus de 30 vols pour Air France et plus de 100 pour KLM opérés sous code Delta dans des zones interdites par la FAA, au-dessus de la région de Bagdad.
Washington ordonne aux deux compagnies de cesser ces pratiques.
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I got this joke when I was 8.
The internet revealed to me that there are now 20 years old who don’t get it.
The bot farms are back doing the linkd in thing
Director: We have a client emergency. I am revoking your PTO for next week.
Analyst: The PTO you approved in Workday four months ago?
Director: Yes. Business needs changed. Everybody is working through the weekend.
Analyst: Understood. Send me your department cost-center code.
Director: For what?
Analyst: For the $3,840 cancellation wire.
Director: The company does not pay for your personal vacation.
Analyst: Then you are going to have a problem with Finance.
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I had one of these through Progressive, they called in Snapshot. My insurance premium was cut 30% and it was amazing. Or at least it was until I tried applying at the Post Office years later. At the time, my car was registered in Florida where I lived, but I parked my car while I was over the road at my parents house in South Carolina. Progressive calls me up about a month or 2 after I have the Snapshot plugged in, asking why my car was always parked in SC. I explained that I was a truck driver and that’s where I parked it while at work. They told me that since my car was in SC for the majority of the year, it needed to be insured in SC. Sweet, my premium dropped even lower. Then a month later I get home to Florida and I see there’s a letter from the DMV in Florida demanding I reinsure my Florida-registered vehicle back to Florida, or they were cancelling my license. The deadline for that was 3 days before I got home. Oops. A few phone calls and a $100 or so fine later, everything was fixed. But for the next 5 years, that cancellation, not suspension, of my license would come up every time I applied at USPS because that’s how far back they checked your driving record. What a pain in the ass.
A few years ago, my car insurance offered a deal: put a tracker in your car for six months and MAYBE your insurance rate would go down. The tracker had a built-in accelerometer and any time you messed up, it beeped at you, letting you know you were a bad driver.
I took the deal. What I noticed was that the most common reason for getting beeped at was slamming the brakes too hard. Coming to a sudden stop was, in the car insurance company's opinion, evidence of bad driving.
Long story short, I ran a LOT of red lights over those six months. I wouldn't want to dangerously slam the brakes, after all.
And after the six months were up, my insurance rate went way down!
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I miss Twitter when the bot buildings were burning down. My feed is utter bot bullshit.
How come no one (besides @iTripReport) pointed out the new United lounge lacks showers.
Regardless of expected traffic it just seems like an amenity I’d expect from the largest domestic airline lounge here in the US. Seems weird none of the blogs I’ve come across said a peep.
Sometimes you’re out and about and cross paths with someone. Someone who’s already where you want to be, not even knowing that person is there. Just a random conversation that encourages you to do it too
Execellent timing.
Been about 3/4 months since FR and last PoT and regular credit increases.
Submitted the gauntlet of request
Aspire? No joy
Schwab Platinum? No joy
Vanilla Platinum? +10
BBP? No joy
BBP 2? +15
Irony is I’m closing Plat2 and bbp2 🙃
