Morning Links: T-Shirt Justice, Route 66’s International Appeal and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.06.09 | 8:35 AM ET
- The TSA and JetBlue settled with Raed Jarrar for $240,000, more than two years after he was forced to remove a T-shirt with the words “We Will Not Be Silent” in both Arabic and English before boarding a flight.
- Have centuries-old diaries of a “British explorer who saved the real-life Robinson Crusoe” been found?
- Route 66: It’s huge in Belgium and Sweden and the Czech Republic and Norway and…
- A Moscow to Atlanta flight ended up in Newfoundland because of an unruly passenger.
- Air India dismissed “overweight” flight attendants.
- New York City’s 86th Street subway station: It’s “the noisiest, if not the most unlikely, museum in the city.”
- A happy third birthday to Perceptive Travel.
- Chris Patten on “the joys of an Asia-Pacific book tour.”
- Authorities interrupted a German pair’s destination wedding. That’s apparently what happens when the couple consists of a 5-year-old boy and a 6-year-old girl who try to take off for Africa while their parents are sleeping.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 01.06.09 | 10:24 AM ET
Dismissing overweight flight attendants? That’s a new one. But at least its better than the Go pilots who fell asleep on the wheel.
Sophie 01.06.09 | 2:48 PM ET
How funny—just yesterday I waited for a train in front of the artwork pictured in the NYT article about the 86th St. subway stop. It was the first leg of my journey home to Dallas. I didn’t know all this about the artworks. Fascinating.
Michael Yessis 01.06.09 | 3:29 PM ET
Ling: I guess Air India just did it after hiring them. Unlike some airlines, which screen by body type before hiring.
Sophie: I’ve been to that station, too, and I had no clue. I’ll be looking when I go back.
Jenna Schnuer 01.06.09 | 6:56 PM ET
I get stupid giddy over subway art. It’s amazing what’s down there. A while back I wrote captions for a photography essay about some of the art down below so spent a lot of time looking at pieces in person and online—it was a real treat. One of my favorite pieces is at the 42nd and 5th stop: Under Bryant Park, 2002. You can see it here: http://www.mta.info/mta/aft/permanentart/permart.html?agency=nyct&line=7&station=9&xdev=835. Good stuff.