United Demands $13,500 To Keep Your Status – Who Would Pay That? [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• United has been asking for triple your shortfall in ticket spending to earn the status. so if you were $4,500 short, they want you to pay $13,500 to buy up to the status. So you can buy a used car or 1K, the choice is yours?
  

  Is this a good deal? Idk
  byu/moneylefty inunitedairlines

• Aloft Dublin: it costs to much to comply with Marriott elite breakfast, so we decided to stop doing that

  
  Breakfast at an Aloft

• New Zealand’s new tourism slogan invites toilet comparisons (HT: @crucker)

  

  Reminds me of “Australian Tourism Slogan Ruled Obscene” about the Northern Territories…https://t.co/Dbg38BMRcW pic.twitter.com/KIaLrz3WVM

  — gary leff (@garyleff) February 18, 2025

• Cabin crew busted posing for photos on plane wing while waiting for takeoff

  

• A long way to go to get to premium.
  

  My last flight on American. Paid for an upgrade and got a broken seat. ⁦@AmericanAir⁩ pic.twitter.com/Vvd5gZL7Da

  — Bill Scott (@BillMiami) February 18, 2025

  Nah they are making a fat joke

  Food with no utensils

  You will hear from lawyers American Airlines pic.twitter.com/GHbgxcP4m8

  — LegendOfWinning (@LegendOfWinning) February 17, 2025

• Bribery at Amtrak’s 30th Street Station in Philadelphia
  

  Seefeldt along with others provided the employee with gifts and other things totaling $323,686 in exchange for the employee to use his position to influence to benefit the Contractor during the project.

  The employee was gifted paid vacations, jewelry, cash, dinners, entertainment, and transportation from Seefeldt. The employee also used his position to access internal agency information available only to Amtrak employees and share it with Seefeldt.

  According to the release, the employee would also approve additional and more expensive changes to the project along with others that they inflated from the true cost. He also billed $52 million of additional payments from Amtrak to the Contractor. These additional expenses caused Amtrak to be overbilled by $2,000,000.

• Just mean.
  

  fake outlet at the airport
  byu/MaryHighFrequency inmildlyinfuriating