Sunday, August 17, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute – August 18 2025

 

Loyalty currencies morph into financing tools, airlines wage war on gatekeeping, and behind it all lie giants losing their edge — with a slice of legal herbal irony to close things out.

  1. AirBnB hooks you—with installments

    AirBnB introduces “Reserve Now, Pay Later,” nudging users toward bookings via a financing model. The line between loyalty and leverage just blurred faster.

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  2. Booking.com keeps the free coffee flowing

    Booking.com debuts its own credit card – a direct push to lock in reward spend, not just reward travel. Disintermediation via plastic.

    Read more.

  3. The sad soul of Boeing

    A hard look through The Atlantic lens: how failures of culture and manufacturing left Boeing unrecognizable from its glory days. A cautionary aerospace tale.

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  4. Porter pilots unionize—shouldn’t fix strategy

    Porter Airlines pilots vote to join ALPA. Yes, it’s not shocking—but unionization alone won’t solve Porter’s bigger fleet and network challenges.

    Read more.

  5. Safety slack? Not so fast, says ICAO

    Latest safety stats from ICAO show improvement—but also a persistent reminder: aviation can’t coast. Renewed vigilance needed now.

    Read more.

  6. Quirky: The law says ‘no kava in NYC’ — but why not on a plane?

    A NYC ban now prohibits the selling of kava drinks in cafes, citing health risks. Admittedly bizarre—but I wonder if the skies remain open…?

    Read more.

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