Miami Airport Chaos: American Airlines Passenger Smashes Gate Agent’s Computer After Missing Flight, Arrested on the Spot [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• “Miami girl destorys American Airlines✈️ kiosk after missing her flight and gets arrested.” She was headed Miami – Punta Cana from gate D41.
• Ex-American MD-80 Takes Flight Again: The aircraft was the last MD-80 ever produced.
• There’s a hack for everything.
  

  Gansta allegedly has a way around the congestion pricing tolls in NYC.

  “We ain’t paying nuffin” pic.twitter.com/W4XP1l6XL5

  — NYScanner (@nyscanner) January 7, 2025

• $35 Kobe beef ‘onigiri burger’ wows departing tourists at Kansai airport a great time to exploit the dollar-yen exchange rate. (HT: Enilria)

  

• Small gestures, big loyalty gains.
  

  Wow, what a nice surprise. The entire flight crew signed a birthday card and gave me a bottle of wine. What an amazing start to my birthday. Y’all have definitely earned a customer for life @united pic.twitter.com/aOBJR0UAPK

  — jn. (@neicexox0) January 6, 2025

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