Infamous ‘Burger King’ Racist Passenger Banned By JetBlue & American Airlines Soars With New Airline [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• He’s ba-ack…? Racist burger king was my favorite misbehaving passenger of the pandemic. This version has the crown, and the hair, but the face is a little different – a cousin perhaps? Looks like a Colorado Buffaloes logo on the seat back.
  

  This fine gentleman just boarded our 12 hours flight. Wish us a pleasant flyte
  byu/No-Sell-3064 inShittyaskflying

• Global Airlines offers to status match. Okey dokey. You have to book a flight with them this year for the match, but they don’t have an air operator’s certificate, let alone slots and gates.
  

  View this post on Instagram

  A post shared by Global Airlines ® (@globalairlines)

• Reasonable pick, but surely Circus Circus is worse and technically part of the Strip?
  

  The Champ 2024 Las Vegas Awards

  Worst Strip Property: Luxor Las Vegas

  With a casino that feels like it’s buried deeper underground than a fallout nuclear shelter, less wins in its casino this year than the Las Vegas Raiders (who’s seen one?) And not a single restaurant… pic.twitter.com/YpPr0yG3LY

  — ChampChaz (@ChampChaz02) January 2, 2025

• TGI Friday’s sells Dallas Airport Outlets for $34.5 Million. TGI’s and Radisson Hotels used to share a loyalty program! Your points transfer ratio to airline miles depended on whether you signed up through the hotel or the restaurant, and you could redeem small numbers of points for appetizers!
• He says he was kicked off his Southwest Airlines flight for the Trump hat, not the a*hole shirt
  

  I flew 2 southwest flight getting there with no problems
  I did add a new hat which she said offends some people
  Trump voters should not fly on Southwest I quest

  — John Robb (@lbjrobb) January 2, 2025

• The hotel voucher an airline will give you during an overnight delay that their fault just is not worth it…
  

  @united UA1949 12:28/24 here’s the line at Holiday Inn at 2 am when 90% of the line was people with vouchers. They were told they didn’t have any more “voucher” rooms. Why did you give some people vouchers but won’t refund me?? Nightmare service. Shame on you. pic.twitter.com/I23fnHMWqb

  — Nancy Rials Lasuzzo (@nrdg08) January 2, 2025