News and Notes from Around the Interweb:
- Forbes looks at the best airlines for business travel in 2014. My take:
A good business airline gets you where you want to go with multiple fight options a day, and lets you be productive while getting there,” Gary Leff, head of the popular View from The Wing blog tells me. “That means the major network (legacy) airlines are the better business airlines. The two best are American Airlines and Delta Airlines for letting you stay connected with inflight wireless internet while offering frequent schedules across their broad networks.
Of course I choose American between those two due to their far superior mileage program.
- Photos of Lufthansa’s new lounge at Newark
- Colorado’s marijuana legalization allows entities controlling property to ban pot on their property. Denver’s airport is utilizing that carve-out to continue to keep marijuana banned there.
- The Washington Post‘s Dylan Matthews, who has written for Salon and The American Prospect: “I flew on a plane without going through security. It was amazing and no one died.”
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Dylan Mattthews has been shown to repeadly have trouble with causation and correlation as shown by his commentary on teachers union. I would take any conclusions he makes with a grain of salt. But anything to further your government diatribe huh?
I agree with Haldami. If you can’t say something very far left-wing, it’s best not to say anything at all. 😉
As for teacher’s unions, just look at California. It practically runs the State Government. So they have one of the highest levels of per pupil spending in the country, and some of the lowest test scores. Teachers pay and benefits are sky high. And unless someone actually has a video of you having sex with a pre-teen student and posts it on YouTube, nothing you do is going to get you fired in less than 5 years arbitration, with full pay while you wait. I’d say that’s one heck of a union. 🙂
You just won’t let DL have the cake on anything, will you? There is no operational comparison between AA and DL, yet you remain stuck on the mileage program. There is a reason that DL keeps winning the business travel awards several years in a row.
“Of course I choose American between those two due to their far superior mileage program.” It’s not really that much better. At least DL operates on time.
Of course they won’t allow pot at the airport. If everyone got high and saw that demon horse with the red eyes it might be mass hysteria.
Just a matter of time until they start building smoking rooms aka dance clubs right outside Denver Airport………maybe bring new meaning to layover………
Are you saying post-merger American here? If not, then I would think US Airways should have been up there with Delta. Wifi on most of the domestic fleet, frequent flights, and on time performance that puts AA to shame.
“A good business airline gets you where you want to go with multiple fight options a day…”
Business travel always provides so many opportunities to get into fights that I often find it hard to differentiate among the multiple fight options the airlines provide. Perhaps a future post could evaluate the various fight options to help us choose which ones will make the travel experience most enjoyable.
Oh wait, maybe that was a typo…8^)
@Cranky Flier – I wasn’t really viewing US Airways as a separate airline, even though it will remain a separate entity in 2014.
@Gene – good thing they’re banning pot at the Denver airport if you think the American mileage program isn’t that much better than Delta’s! 🙂 I included Delta in my comments to Forbes about best business airline for a reason though. Did that surprise you? 😉
Matthews is certainly strongly left of center. I take any argument that dismisses someone because you don’t like what they say on another topic — rather than engaging what they actually say — with a grain of salt. 😉
Just arrived at Virgin Loft LAX and shocked to find no food offerings but crackers and yogurt. They stopped offering food Dec 1 with no heads up on the website. Virgin America is now on the bottom of lounges.i have to go downstairs for Burger King for food, after paying $40 for lounge pass. Business travelers will vote with their carrier choices.
Just saw Robert Hanson comment re:teachers in CA. Not really true. Our daughter is a public school secondary science teacher. She has two masters and makes less than $38,000 a year gross. We basically subsidize her and her classroom. Our contribution to our countries future. Tenured teachers are on the way out with new teachers not receiving lifetime tenure anymore. A move to the middle would be nice.
Although I have a full time job I choose to substitute teach about 10 days a year as part of my contribution to our future leaders………the pay is normally $100 per day and has been at that level for all of the 10 years I have been a substitute here in California……..My high school district raises about $2 million a year for 3 schools to supplement items that Proposition 13 took away when it limited property tax increases………I am one who believes that it does take a village to raise a child and will “never” complain if government money for old people is shifted to government money for young people……