Richardquest

Today my twin and I are 64. Gosh. It even sounds old open.spotify.com/track/1zdBFL2U…

It all depends on how long this war lasts.

U.S. sheds jobs last month. Now the feds dual mandate becomes really hard: do you focus on weaking jobs and cut rates? Or focus on rising inflation because of rising oil prices and hold the line (or think of tightening). Either way the situation is getting worse

At least 5 Gulf heavies at SYD that won’t be flying back today! EK/EY/QR stranded here for the time being while gulf airspace closed.

As I say - no logic to this other than a rule that must be followed.

No logic to @emirates luggage policy. I am 7k over J class allowance. If I leave it in my suitcase I pay $250. If I put it in my handluggage no extra charge (the plane still uses the extra fuel to carry the 7k).

This was indeed a different judgement. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Worth reading the judge’s opinion in the case of the father and 5 yr old son. “Blistering” is how NYT calls it. A real constitutional lesson storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

@afneil @British_Airways Yup Andrew. Same here. It just became too difficult to keep Gold with the new tier levels. My travels haven’t gone down, they moved the goal posts. BUT Not sure BA are bothered at least they don’t seem to be.

A case study in how @British_Airways, by setting impossibly high tier point hurdles, is going to lose a lot of money/big paying customers. Planning my next trip to NYC in Spring. Normally I’d do business Nice-London on BA, return first class London-NYC-London and business London-Nice, fitting in a few working days in London there and back. All up the fares would come to around £5,000 for flights in second half of April. A lot of money — especially since it comes out of my pocket. Nobody picks up my expenses. But at my age I like to travel in comfort. And I like the BA crews. However now that the tier point hurdle is too high for renewing guest list status for all but perpetual travellers, why bother planning a schedule round BA flights? I’ve booked Nice-NYC-Nice first class return on Delta for just over €3,000. No brainer, really. Direct flight, almost half the price. And @British_Airways will lose £5,000. Plus much more if this now becomes my regular NYC schedule. I can’t tell you the number of people I know now doing similar flight schedule planning which simply removes BA from the planning, when it used to be at the centre. And, yes, I know it’s most definitely a first-world problem! But BA makes most of its money from passengers flying first/business. With fewer of us the fares of premium/economy passengers will rise. Well done @British_Airways. How to stuff loyal, high-paying customers of longstanding for no good reason whatsoever. Hi @Delta. Thanks for reserving me seat 1A both ways! Can’t wait.

@hahellyer Interesting. Looked embarrassed and immediately finished the call and apologized. I don’t think people even realise they are doing it

@richardquest No, you're absolutely right - what was the reply?

When did it become completely socially acceptable to sit and watch videos or have video calls with the speaker on instead of headphones. Everyone seems to be doing it now. At least 4 people guilty here in the business lounge at BCN

How quickly these cases go back to very core, basic principles. This judge writes with brutal frankness

Well I don’t really know what to say …. ranker.com/list/hot-male-… I mean if some of you were to express an opinion lol !!!