Thursday, September 04, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute – September 5 2025

 


Fines, trademarks, fleets, fading unions, Spirit’s cuts—and a flashback to 2022.

  1. Google fined for data hoarding

    Law360: regulators slap Google for over-collecting personal data. Tech’s addiction to surveillance isn’t cheap anymore.

    Read more.

  2. Premier Inn wins trademark fight

    TravelMole: EasyGroup loses its case—turns out “Easy” doesn’t stretch to hotels. Not so Easy after all.

    Read more.

  3. American Airlines reaches 1,000 aircraft

    SimpleFlying: AA hits the milestone. But is bigger really better—or just harder to manage?

    Read more.

  4. Labor unions in decline

    USAFacts: membership keeps shrinking. For aviation and travel workers, that means less bargaining power in turbulent times.

    Read more.

  5. Spirit begins cutbacks amid bankruptcy

    The Points Guy: Spirit slashes routes and capacity. Bankruptcy pain is here, with passengers and employees set to feel it first.

    Read more.

  6. Quirky: A 2022 flashback

    PhocusWire: rewind to tech headlines from three years ago. Remember when NFTs were hot? Proof the hype cycle never sleeps.

    Read more.


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#Tags:

#Travel #Aviation #Airlines #Tourism #Google #PremierInn #EasyGroup #AmericanAirlines #Unions #SpiritAirlines #Bankruptcy #TechHistory #QuirkyTravel #Picasso #Innovation


Picasso Style Note: Corporate fines, legal battles, shrinking unions, and bankruptcies all signal fragmentation and fracture. The right fit is Analytical Cubism—broken planes and figures, muted browns and greys, reflecting a week of stress cracks.

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