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[emck @e_mcki]

@ShannonNutt @_Zeets Ruin the plot points of the Odyssey?

[emck @e_mcki]

@LeighGiangreco Lonesome rose has a cute rooftop

[Edward Russell @ByERussell]

EXCLUSIVE: Washington's Dulles airport could be entirely remade in just 8 years under a $22 billion plan by the Trump administration.

Out are the mobile lounges and temporary Concourse C-D, in is a new above ground connector and an Atlanta-like layout.

https://t.co/cUoM3npCJf

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Check-in is the moment three different systems decide whether you actually get on the plane.

The first is revenue. Every US flight is deliberately oversold to hedge against no-shows. In 2024, US airlines involuntarily bumped passengers at a rate of 0.28% per DOT data. Tight enough that almost everyone who checks in keeps their seat. The check-in cutoff (typically 30-60 min before departure) is when the airline finalizes who showed up. Skip it, your seat releases to standby. They keep your fare and resell the spot.

The second is federal. Your check-in submits your full name and date of birth to TSA Secure Flight, which runs you against the No Fly List in real time. If the system flags you, no boarding pass prints. This entire process started in 2009. Before that, identity verification happened at the gate.

The third is physics. The captain needs the final passenger count for weight, balance, and fuel load calculations. Every passenger and bag has to be accounted for to set takeoff speeds and trim. The manifest has to be locked before pushback.

DOT also explains why airlines track who checked in first. On oversold flights without enough volunteers, check-in time is one of the criteria they use for involuntary bumping. Late check-in moves you to the front of the bump queue.

One button. Revenue management, federal security, aviation safety. All three resolved at once.

[emck @e_mcki]

I have literally been talking so much about the Irish hello

[rachel @rachcorrine]

Discussion we had this evening. In NYC we are bringing back the IRISH HELLO. AKA THE 90s. Here’s how it works. You and your friends all share location. Sporadically throughout the day (lunch break, coffee walk, after work, before work) you check to see where they are. If you’re close to someone, you just show up at their location. Aka bring them a coffee to work, stop by their apt unannounced, kick shoes off and spill the tea. Spontaneously grab a drink or dinner because you’re in the same vicinity. And even if you’re not, meet in the middle. It’s easy to get around here. We’re nostalgic for a time that does not exist and yet we have the means to create it and still we refuse. Everyone is too cool or too nonchalant or too scared to appear desperate. Who gives a fuck. I think we should all be a little more desperate. You’re alive. You need people and people need you. Be the one who calls. Be the one who makes the plan, who sets the tone. I guarantee you’ll be surprised at who shows up. It’s better to be the person who tries than the person who doesn’t.

HELLO I AM HERE.

[Kyle Potter @kpottermn]

The Biden admin blocking JetBlue’s acquisition did not kill Spirit. Nor did $4+ jet fuel alone - though that clearly hastened its demise.

Spirit was circling the drain for years. It’s gone now because:

- richer pilot contracts raised its costs significantly. You can’t have an ultra-low-cost carrier with high costs
- it tripled down on the cheap “revenge travel” boom post-pandemic, betting it would continue
- but travel demand rapidly shifted to “premium” travel and heading abroad - two segments Spirit can’t serve
- massive engine issues forced Spirit to ground a large (& expensive) chunk of its fleet
- the big one: Buoyed by massive hubs and even bigger frequent flyer programs, major airlines like AA, Delta & United finally figured out how to weaponize stingy basic economy fares and fill larger planes with passengers who previously booked Spirit

[Shawn G. Chittle @ShawnChittle]

The airlines have pricing algorithms that make Polymarket look like VFW bingo.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

Who did this now?

[emck @e_mcki]

@DanielKayHertz Official govt webpage lmao

[Carolina Hurricanes @Canes]

Read it (if you can) and weep

[emck @e_mcki]

@BizNasty2point0 singing the lion king on the postgame DEADDDD

[emck @e_mcki]

@Philly_ASA Gritty is I feel like the mascot that best personifies the city that they represent.

[emck @e_mcki]

I don’t know how to explain to you writing college frat fics that the presidents job is NOT to worry about social status; it’s to make sure the idiot frat bros you live with don’t do the type of stupid shit that gets you kicked off campus and to run interference with campus admin

[emck @e_mcki]

@CaptainFlowers Give Flowers his Flowers 💐

[emck @e_mcki]

@dazi180turtle @samquue :) when I posted this there were a ton of comments, looks like OP was able to moderate and remove them

[•ash• @crosbyterian]

this reminds me of when the bruins dj decided to play feliz navidad when a brawl broke out. everybody eating knuckle sandwiches with cheery music in the background will never not be funny

[emck @e_mcki]

@AJamesMcCarthy It’s incredibly complex and interconnected operationally - until that operational paradigm shifts or pax are willing to pay substantially more for better experience it will still be a 5% industry

[Max Gao @MaxJGao]

In this teaser, you guys get to see part of the opening montage that I tried to describe in my #OffCampus story for @TeenVogue. 🤣 https://t.co/yTybLMgYag

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

Few are alive to remember 2018 but in the Illinois Democratic primary there was a progressive darling endorsed by all the activists named Daniel Biss and everyone got really mad when Obama endorsed the billionaire heir to the Hyatt fortune.