Inside Uber’s Underground Blackmarket: Illegal Accounts Are Booming [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• This is bigger for Uber Eats, where picking up multiple deliveries compensates for the reduced pay Uber offers.
  

  Blackmarket for illegal Uber accounts is real
  byu/ExposureBuck inuberdrivers

• The insane way TSA says they’re going to start enforcing REAL ID

  

• What’s grosser than gross
• Interesting discussion of Qantas and why aircraft heavy maintenance takes so long
• Passenger asks American Airlines the difference between aircraft types, and their answer? Less legroom for everyone!
  

  Hello there! Our A321 has less pitch in the seating from First Class cabin to Main Cabin, has six fewer seats total and holds 96 fewer bags in the overhead bins. The neo aircraft has AC/USB power ports at all seats which the regular A321 doesn’t offer.

  — americanair (@AmericanAir) January 15, 2025

• United Airlines flight returns to O’Hare after hitting coyote during takeoff (HT: Cheryl)