Qantas Passengers Left Mortified As Racy Movie Plays On Every Screen During Flight [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

Passengers on Qantas flight to Tokyo endure ‘super uncomfortable’ experience as racy movie is played on every single screen. After an hour they realized what they’d done and switched it.

[T]he cabin crew asked passengers what movie they would like to be screened, and somehow, they landed on the 2023 title Daddio, which stars Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn.

Maryland’s aviation administration, which operates BWI, had authority to select a concessions operator pulled by the state after appearing to rig the bidding in favor of a politically connected partnership benefiting HMSHost. Handed to the state’s department of transportation, they are nearing a recommendation though that, too, is engendering controversy.

These are lucrative contracts because you, the traveler, are the airport’s product and not the customer. And what they deliver to passengers is almost always terrible. You’ve got politicians selecting vendors for government-run airports, frequently benefiting a well-connected monopoly company.

So even if they weren’t trying to serve lowest common denominator customers quickly, with little storage space, supplies only going through security at off hours, and knives chained to the wall (and for the most part only electric cook tops) you’d still get a bad outcome.

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TIL.

The specialized sports equipment section of the @SouthwestAir website is delightful #avgeek pic.twitter.com/LD8Ne1pKeV

— Ryan Warner (@cprwarner) October 5, 2024

There’s nothing more fraught than picking someone up at the airport.

THIS. pic.twitter.com/oG0Mtau3sG

— The Notorious J.O.V. (@whotfisjovana) October 4, 2024

If you’re of a certain age like I am, you may have done this too – I’d fly as an unaccompanied minor in the early 80’s and had to get dressed up for the occasion.

Our parents made sure we dressed up before getting on an airplane (back then anyway). pic.twitter.com/eHBdyXyx1L

— Joe (@jpr747) October 6, 2024

The question is, in their desperate search for revenue is Southwest Airlines going to start charging passengers of size for their extra seat?

damn i didn’t know airlines did this pic.twitter.com/9stpsSGiap

— non aesthetic things (@PicturesFoIder) October 6, 2024