This is spot on - would not recommend Air China. China Airlines is fiiine
ANA is great through Taipei if that is an option
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After some more searching and date changes, they were able to get a good flight out and back on JAL. Disaster averted.
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Fly EVA to Taiwan.
Its great.
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It’s funny you said this because this happened to be sent to me earlier. A UK-based journalist was stopped in the Abu Dhabi airport for her shirt.
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The day is coming – or perhaps is already here – where it would be wise to scrub your social media accounts and wear your most boring outfit when flying.
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Thank god for the paywall.
Cunning move on so many levels.
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Why do you think I’m on such good behavior in the LIV thread?
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Even then, it will only work for white people. /s
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All depends on where you’re flying to and through 
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Is anyone still holding out hope for Airports 4.2 and 4.3, or are we simply writing those off?
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We’re basically just waiting for @Tron to have such a disastrous travel experience that he can’t help himself but do airports 4.2 to eviscerate whatever location was the source of his misery
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I flew to Ireland (Detroit to Chicago to Heathrow to Ashley) in 2005 with a shirt with a picture of Faris Odeh on it that said free Palestine. What a time!
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They definitely would have jacked you up in the UAE with a shirt like that 
If I’m headed to a golf destination, I try to wear a golf shirt. Otherwise I’ll wear a t-shirt and a hoodie or qzip and some boring ass sneakers. I don’t want to stand out or look like someone with a personality beyond “semi-annoyed but also silent” traveler.
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The first time I flew first class I wore this shirt:
I nudged the lady in the business suit next to me when the rest of the plane started boarding and said “look at the poor’s”
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Air China is fine but it’s below us airlines. EVA is better.
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Anyone know how to status match Singapore Krisflyer status back to United?
I was able to score Krisflyer Silver status based on having Marriott Bonvoy Platinum and linking those accounts (Singapore is running a promotion via their Marriott partnership). KrisFlyer Silver is a Star Alliance Silver tier status, so if possible I’d love to get United to recognize it before my flight from DC to Houston on Tuesday, but not the end of the world if it doesn’t materialize.
I’m also close to hitting status with Alaska that could potentially transfer over to AA via oneworld, so I’m open to pro tips for that too. Not opposed to making a $200 saver-fare status run on Alaskan if needed in December, if that means I’ll have less scum-of-the-earth treatment from AA for the inevitable 20 regional flights I’ll have with them every year without somehow being able to notch Aadvantage status.
Happened again on a Southwest flight yesterday. With about an hour left in the flight, we had two small bumps, and the pilots turned on the seatbelt sign. The rest of the flight was smooth, but the sign didn’t come off. This led to a bunch of people getting up to use the bathroom, including one person who literally got up for the bathroom as we’re on the downwind leg of the approach (!). No communication from the pilots on the sign, so people are guessing for themselves.
I still think this is a US airline problem rather than specific Southwest problem, but it does seem to happen the most on Southwest. Drives me up the wall.
On a side note, on my flight out, after landing, someone got up on the taxiway and was in the aisle. Haven’t seen that one for a while.
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Good shout, please let me know if you’re able to figure that one out. Since they upped the Marriott/United status match partnership level to titanium I’ve been missing out on that sweet free United status. Would love to get it back
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I have noticed the same thing when I’ve traveled back to the States over the last two years. Pilots on the inter-European flights turn off the seatbelt sign much faster than pilots in the US. Lots of times it will be off as soon as they hit 10k feet. My last few flights in the US they’ve gone the complete other way. I’ve been on two this year where the Pilot announces there will be bad turbulence and says there won’t be FA service and then barely hitting one or two bumps in the air.
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I was on a flight from HNL to DEN recently and they didn’t turn off the seatbelt light for the first 90 minutes. Cabin crew was still seated and everything. I had to get up and verbatim tell one of the crew “can you please unlock this lavatory or I am going to piss myself” to which he called the purser to get permission to unlock it (he did unlock it).
It was a very late red eye flight so maybe that had something to do with it, but it was fairly absurd.
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