I guess this is good news.  Hawaiian Airlines merged with Alaska Air.  More specifically,  Alaska purchased Hawaiian for $1.9 billion .  We recently have been traveling a lot on both.  United Air seems to have backtracked in many ways the past few years.  Even though my loyalty program is with them, the company has so decimated the utility of using miles that it doesn't matter anymore.  In any case, when you travel in business or first class, you can always use the executive lounge of that airline. One more bit of news.   Have you noticed that Israel is killing and maiming Hezbollah operatives across Lebanon with pagers?    Yes, this is that small device you use to page people.   Apparently, what happened is that mobile phones can be tracked, so they were discarded by the Hezbollah and replaced by pagers.  You cannot talk on them.  These devices can only text a message.   The Hezbollah ordered 5,000 pagers from a Taiwanese firm, Gold Apollo.   But Israel operatives learned about th