Plus, pandemonium in a US airline queue and Murdoch puts Fox News in the spotlight after suggesting hosts ‘endorsed’ Trump lies
At the airport in Charleston, South Carolina there is pandemonium at the gate. Airline staff have informed a group of passengers they hold a special, cheap ticket that denies them the right to take a carry-on bag. The agents blame Expedia. A quick online search indicates the airline is totally in on it , but either way, holders of a “basic economy” ticket can now only board with “one small, personal item”. No one in the queue has heard of this.
I do not, it turns out, have the cheapest and most terrible ticket. I have merely the standard, terrible ticket which, for the first time, comes with an experience I have read about but never actually gone through. I’m travelling with my two eight-year-olds and, in spite of logging on to a website on the very second that check-in opened, they have been seated apart from me and each other.
Since the pandemic, air travel in the US has become more expensive, less pleasant, and subject to greater delays, but these new gouging initiatives are something else. I huff through arguments in my head; this is a safeguarding issue; it’s extortion; it’s scalping; surely it’s illegal. Also good luck to the stranger who has to deal with all the tears and panic from my kids if there’s turbulence.
The proposals themselves, meanwhile, eliminate any sense of a border in the Irish Sea, driving the final nail into the coffin of Boris Johnson’s Northern Ireland protocol bill and, with any luck, the last vestiges of his political ambition. In regards to the new proposals, the former prime minister is
to be “continuing to study and reflect”, a novel approach, if true, and one can only wish him the greatest good luck in his exciting new engagement with the business of government.William and Kate at a spin class: ‘Well they’re not staying at ours. They’ll have to go Airbnb!’A busy week for the king, as we zip over from Windsor Castle to Frogmore cottage, erstwhile residence of the Sussexes.
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