Adam Platt

@kpottermn @mspairport Let's see if Delta maintains frequency and capacity to DUB now. ... Those load factors made it a fruitful place to find award space as well.

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BREAKING: Ireland's Aer Lingus will cut routes from Minneapolis as well as Denver and Las Vegas this fall. The airline cites cost-cutting for the reductions but there's another reason MSP is getting the axe just two years after commencing: Delta bullied them off the route.

@Patrick_Reusse Yeah, what are the odds those March games at Chavez Ravine get played?

Yankees are at Target Field in late June and Blue Jays in July next season. That would be great news for gate receipts, if there wasn’t going to be a work stoppage/lockout.

@CallaghanPeter I think we might do that with St. Paul.

This is what it has come to Seattle Times? Tacoma is now just a "Seattle-area city?"

@phildetlefsen @DanBarreiroKFAN 204 guy

@DanBarreiroKFAN Checking in to listen a bit from Churchill Manitoba at a comfortable 50°

Someone needs to explain to me why every time 15 workers at a Starbucks vote to unionize it's a bylined story in local media.

@PickledFresno There's a constituency for everything, to be sure.

@plattMSP Superficial opinions mean a lot to me.

The Hennepin County Board was once the most respected and competent elected body in the metro area, just for historical context. No one says that anymore.

@charlierybak Yet @TCBmag remains free for all. An island of collectivism in a sea of avarice.

Indicative of how a lot of companies have handled the inflation price spikes of the past few years. When costs go up, prices go up, and when costs go down, prices stay up.

@ViewFromTheQ @Reece_kirk1 If you're willing to enter after 5p, what's the average time in the queue would you guess?

@Reece_kirk1 Loads after 5pm

Currently under 1500

@WillRagatz Got a towel available.

I’m sure I’ll talk myself into this trade over time, but right now I’m mostly shocked and sad about losing Naz Reid. That was our guy. I also don’t know how I feel about LaMelo as a championship-level No. 2. How are you feeling, Wolves fans?

I wrote a piece about townball for @mspmag. It's slightly out of date, because I visited ballpark #81 on Father's Day in Gibbon. It was excellent.

@NickNelsonMN This is totally the case. Nobody has the Twins on and many bar/resto owners say they don't have it or don't know how to get it.

Another thing I think they should do, per my tweet the other night: Make Twins TV subscriptions free for local sports bars. They need their games to be on screens at places like this. They need to reclaim mindshare from Twin Cities sports fans. x.com/NickNelsonMN/s…

This was tongue in cheek, but I actually think it's a pretty good idea. Twins have acknowledged they need to win back fans – even their more loyal fans. Proactive steps like this promo can help.

@gwld That's an odd looking vehicle.

new USPS mail delivery trucks are so goofy i love it

@jzulgad Who is doing the TV play by play?

Atrocious challenge management by the Twins.

Glad we all have enough time on our hands to sit and debate Jessica and Jerry Seinfeld's choices from decades ago. AI really is making life better.

@FeedbackRobust @Patrick_Reusse Honestly, they've caught up on cheeseburgers.

@Patrick_Reusse We'd have far inferior cheeseburgers, however.

Considering the exploits of England’s Folarin Balogun in U.S. victory over Paraguay, we just realized in baseball press box that this massive body of land would be way better in soccer if Paul Revere wasn’t such a busy body and we had remained a colony for 250 yrs.

I am the Chief Commercial Officer at United Airlines. In April we split business class into three tiers and started charging people to pick a seat in the most expensive cabin on the plane. We call it a fare family, which is, technically, a family, and which is, actually, the same seat with three prices and a velvet rope. We are the first airline in America to do this. On the slide it is "more choice," which is officially a benefit and naturally the word that gets bigger every quarter. The board loved that phrase. I did not make flying more expensive. I made it free, and then I sold it back to you one piece at a time, the way a magician hands you back your own watch and waits for applause. The fare is the bait. It buys the seat and the air, and nothing else, because I price it to win exactly one fight: the top row on Google Flights. Everything that makes the seat survivable is what we file as an option, which is technically an option and operationally a toll. The first bag is $45. It is $50 if you wait until the airport, because waiting is a behavior, and we price behavior the way a casino prices the walk to the exit. We call that a convenience differential, which is, technically, your convenience, and which is, actually, mine. Here is the part I am proudest of. The fare is taxed by the federal government at 7.5 percent. The bag fee is not. The seat fee is not. Every dollar I move from the ticket to the fee is a dollar the government cannot reach, which is technically a tax efficiency and which is actually the same dollar wearing a different coat. I have a slide that calls this Fare Optimization. The seat is my cleanest product. I built the standard seat at 31 inches. I removed nothing from the airplane, of course. It is the same airplane. I just stopped including the seat in the seat, which is on paper a debundling and which is actually the oldest trick in any store: take the thing out of the price, then sell the thing. If you fly Basic Economy you get no seat at all. You can pick one for $15, or I will put you in a middle seat in row 41 and separate you from your eight-year-old by four rows unless you pay. We call that family seating optimization, which is, in the deck, a service, and which is, actually, a hostage negotiation where I own the building. A parent at the gate watching the seat map load is, to me, the most beautiful thing in aviation: a customer who has already decided. Families are my highest-converting segment. A parent will pay anything. I modeled it. I invented a number called the Comfort Index. The standard seat scores a 4. The seat seven rows forward scores a 7. I made both numbers up, naturally. The difference between them is three inches, and I charge $79 for the three inches. That is value-based pricing, and the value is your spine. We are a premium airline. We invented the lie-flat bed. So this year I took the most expensive ticket in the building and found things to remove from it, the way you might keep selling a house by quietly taking out the windows. The cheapest business class now loses the lounge, loses a bag, loses the right to change the flight. That is what premium means now: the floor it costs to stop me from taking more. Nobody believed you could unbundle business class. I did. The bag fee floats now. It reads the route, the date, and how many times you have searched this flight, and if you came back a third time, you are committed and the fee can feel it, the way a fever feels a pulse. Demand-responsive pricing, which is officially responsive to demand and which is actually responsive to your desperation. I board the airplane in nine groups. Not because the airplane needs nine groups, but because nine groups means eight things to escape, and I sell the right to stand up earlier. Group 9 is, on paper, a boarding zone. That is the absence of a product, sold back to you as one. I have lifetime Global Services. I have never paid a bag fee. I have never folded myself into 31 inches. None of the executives have. We have a phrase for it. We build the zoo. We do not live in it. Ancillary revenue hit a record. The word ancillary means a side item, officially, and means the entrée now, actually. So next quarter I am charging for the overhead bin, the seatback screen, and a carbon offset on the carbon I burn flying you there. I am being given Latin America. I will be President by Q4. I have already started unbundling the word "included," which is, in the FAQ, a courtesy, and which is now a SKU. People ask me why the seat is so bad. Have you ever stood in a showroom and not known you were the one being shown? The bad seat is the showroom for the good seat, and I price the good seat at the exact moment you cannot leave the building. I still do not know how to fly the airplane. But I know what the airplane is for. It is not for taking you somewhere. It is for finding out what you will pay to make the next four hours hurt a little less. The ticket was never the price. The misery is the price. And the misery is the only thing I have left to sell.

@maxnesterak Maybe the county attorney hopes to impinge on the unconstrained years of his third life.

Vance Boelter will serve two consecutive life sentences plus 40 years under a plea agreement with the Department of Justice minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/11/rep…

@maxnesterak "The Borealis Corridor."

local angle

Breaking: Hennepin County Sheriff's deputies were fired upon while attempting to serve an arrest warrant in the area of 28th Street and Nicollet Ave. Tuesday. Early reports say they are still negotiating with a suspect, and trying to secure the scene. audacy.com/wccoradio/news…