News and notes from around the interweb:
- This Southwest flight attendant will always LUV you.
@SouthwestAir making the most of tarmac delays. Amazing talent you have working here. pic.twitter.com/2ehYNAvUCL
— Matt Grissom (@GrissomTweets) April 28, 2022
- Southwest agent breaks union rules, allows non-union member to work behind counter.
Just want to shoutout @SouthwestAir at Boston Logan for going above and beyond for Palmer. She was having a complete meltdown and they took charge and made her feel so special and let her help behind the counter. So simple yet so helpful/kind to a traveling mom! Thank you!! pic.twitter.com/3PoHQQjZCm
— Amanda Diekman (@Amanda_Diekman) April 28, 2022
- American family tries to board with a souvenir bomb at the Tel Aviv airport TSA would never have found it, but Israeli security doesn’t mess around.
תיעוד: בהלה בנתב"ג בעקבות חשש מחפץ חשוד. לאחר בדיקות הוכרז על חזרה לשגרה@sharonidan pic.twitter.com/pOMLp3oaeC
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) April 28, 2022
- Avianca acquires VivaColombia
- And Hertz paid money for this.
Oh look it's Google auto-embedding a banner ad for Hertz in an article about Hertz having customers wrongly arrested. @garyleff is going to get a kick out of this pic.twitter.com/v934RUkW5i
— Alberto Riva (@Albertoriva) April 29, 2022
- Sacre bleu!
The decline in French alcohol consumption is just astonishing. The average French person drinks less than a quarter as much wine today as they did in the 1960s. And look at that cidre decline. pic.twitter.com/QKgYPm6Ow1
— Tom Forth (@thomasforth) April 25, 2022
With the outrageous prices being charged by car rental companies, I have taken a good hard look at the use of my rental cars. I have realized it is cheaper and easier on me to use Uber/Lyft, local mass transportation ( bus or tram/train ), and walking. With gas and rental fee prices added to parking, it just doesn’t make sense. On multiple city trips I am usually forced back to cars but multiple night stays in cities they have lost me. Add, I don’t want to be jailed by Hertz and their stupidity.
Hertz didn’t necessarily pay for the ad. Not all advertisers pay for just an impression. It’s the deep funnel conversion (layman’s terms: actually renting a car) that counts as successful and if Hertz is smart it would pay the ad network for that. Not for a cheap banner impression.
I read the article about Hertz arresting readers and then saw the post about the Hertz banner ad that someone else saw while reading a similar story . . . As I was reading, on my monitor a large vertical ad appeared on the right side AND a banner ad appeared across the bottom of the page! It took me a moment to realize this was not related to the story, that these were Hertz paid-for ads. I was gobsmacked and sat staring with disbelief. As I started to do a screen grab, the ads changed. Hertz needs to have a sit-down with their ad agency. Whoever is setting the parameters for their online ad placement either has a wicked sense of humor or is sabotaging the Hertz account, which is rather amusing given the way the company has been sabotaging the lives of so many innocent customers.
More reason not to rent from Hertz since they Do Not take this seriously