Jack Sweeney, who gained notoriety for his @ElonJet account on X and maintained many of the suspended accounts, said on Threads that the development is “reminiscent of all my accounts getting suspended on Twitter.” The shuttered accounts, which used publicly available data to show the flight paths of private jets, initially displayed a message on Monday that read, “The link you followed may be broken, or the page may have been removed.”
Meta provided no direct warning or explanation for the suspensions, according to Sweeney, who says the accounts appear “blacked out with no options to interact or receive information.” In a statement to TechCrunch, however, an unnamed Meta spokesperson said “Given the risk of physical harm to individuals, and in keeping with the independent Oversight Board’s recommendation, we’ve disabled these accounts for violating our privacy policy.”
I just took an 80min flight recently. For shits I looked at the first class upgrade option. It cost three times as much as my coach ticket. I hate flying, and I think airplanes are cramped and very uncomfortable, but I can’t imagine choosing to have a tiny bit bigger seat for an 80min flight over buying two other people tickets or supporting a charity or just buying extra drugs that week. The amount of disposable income or pathological obsession with status to flagrantly make the choice to buy a first class ticket astounds me.
I’d have to guess a lot of the time is companies eating the cost for their people to fly first class rather then it being common for a rando looking to take a flight booking first class
Yup. Companies have many times the money a single person does, so they’ll shell out for it. Usually it’s managers and execs who get upgrades, and the regular workers who get economy.
Free food and drinks (and I mean real beer and mid tier liquor, and actual food not snacks) in a much much nicer lounge is worth its weight in gold if you fly a lot of have a long layover. If you’re flying 15000 miles a year those upgrades become much cheaper (like more than 50% off) on many flights.