News and Notes from Around the Interweb:
- All-around great guy and BoardingArea blogger Darren Booth has passed away.
- The primary airline lobbying group and largest pilots union are exerting political pressure to try to stop the expansion of international low cost airline Norwegian Air Shuttle
- Le Club Accorhotels is running a 40% – 50% off sale.
- Encounter restaurant at LAX has closed.
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Oh how I loathe rent seeking lobbying groups.
Amazing how anti-competitive the US can become. I bet the same people who are complaining about Norwegian paying its Thai staff salaries commensurate with general salaries in Thailand happily buy cheap clothing made in the Far East by people earning far less. Sadly, such arguments will go unheard when the clarion call of protectionism is sounded.