The state of Nevada and United Airlines are newcomers to a 2019 watchdog list of the top 12 contributors to sexual exploitation in the U.S.
 

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The state of Nevada, Sports Illustrated magazine and United Airlines are 2019 newcomers to the Dirty Dozen list of the top purveyors of sexual exploitation.

Nevada enslaves women through legalized prostitution and United Airlines has not addressed passenger reports of inflight sexual assault and harassment, the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) said in releasing its 2019 Dirty Dozen List Feb. 11.
 
The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue (SI), Netflix and Massage Envy spa also made for the first time the Dirty Dozen list of companies that promote and enable sexual exploitation.
 
“No corporation or mainstream entity should profit from or facilitate sexual exploitation,” Haley Halverson, NCOSE vice president of advocacy and outreach, said in releasing the list. “Unfortunately, many well established brands and organizations in America do just that.”
 
Nevada’s legalization of prostitution, active in 10 counties, has enabled the state to become the largest illegal sex trader in the country, with 63 percent more activity there than in New York state, the nearest aggressor, NCOSE said.
 
“Under this legal framework, women are consumables,” said Lisa Thompson, NCOSE vice president of policy and research. “Like all systems of prostitution, Nevada’s sexploitation industry has a predatory dependence on women facing dire economic circumstances, and oftentimes with childhood histories of neglect and sexual abuse.” Women are sometimes recruited from jails, their bonds paid by brothel owners, NCOSE said.
 
United Airlines has exhibited systemic inappropriate reactions to sexual harassment in flight, NCOSE said.
 
While complaints have occurred on “virtually every airline,” Halverson said, “United aircrews have apparently received especially ineffective training.” The airline “appears to be chronically ill-prepared to address the growing problem of viewing pornography on airplanes, which creates a culture of sexual harassment.” In the enclosed environment of air travel, she said, children likely would be exposed to pornography.
 
Among other top abusers, SI peddles women’s bodies for public consumption, Massage Envy mishandles complaints of sexual assault committed during massages, and Netflix promotes child prostitution, NCOSE said, notably in its original series “Baby.”
 
Returning from 2018 on the seventh annual list are Amazon, Google, HBO, Roku, EBSCO Information Services, STEAM online video game distributors and Twitter.
 
The Dirty Dozen list “is an activism tool that gives the power back to individuals to speak out against corporatized sexual exploitation,” Halverson said. CVS Pharmacy’s removal of the SI swimsuit issue from checkout counters is one of NCOSE’s latest victories, Halverson said.
 
Among other NCOSE’s successes, Halverson said, Google no longer links pornographic videos to advertisements; Hilton Worldwide and other hotel chains no longer offer pornographic movies on demand; Walmart has removed Cosmopolitan Magazine from its checkout aisles; and the U.S. Department of Defense no longer offers pornographic magazines on military bases.
 
NCOSE markets itself as “the leading national organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation such as child sexual abuse, prostitution, sex trafficking and the public health crisis of pornography.”
 
NCOSE’s Dirty Dozen list and accompanying narratives are available at endsexualexploitation.org/dirtydozen-2019/.

Jeremiah “Michael” McCarthy Jr. of Hyde Park died Friday. He was 70.

He was an avid golfer and enjoyed his time and friends at George Wright Golf Course.

He worked for United Airlines until retirement.

He is survived by a daughter, Lisa Russell; a son, Jeremiah III; four sisters, Jacquelyn, Patricia, M. Alannah McCarthy Fennell, and Kathleen Cody; three granddaughters; three grandsons; two nieces and a nephew.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. John Chrysostom Church, West Roxbury.

Interment will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, West Roxbury.

Arrangements by Robert J. Lawler Crosby Funeral Home, West Roxbury.

“Big Bang Theory” actress Mayim Bialik went on a Twitter rant after she wasn’t allowed to board her connecting United Airlines flight from Houston to Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 11. However, her meltdown “isn’t surprising” to people who know the star, according to a new report.

The renewed “Big Bang Theory” fame has turned Bialik—who plays Amy Farrah Fowler on the CBS sitcom—into a “mini monster,” an insider source told RadarOnline.com. The source went on to explain, “especially when she travels. She’s super intelligent, but she’s also an entitled diva.”

On the other hand, Bialik insisted she wasn’t a “prima donna.”

“To the @UnitedAirlines flight attendant who shut the boarding gate in my face. I made my connecting flight in Houston,” she tweeted about the incident at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. “it was a tight squeeze but You said there were plenty of open seats. when you saw my carry on suitcase you said there was no room and shut the door in my face.”

To the @UnitedAirlines flight attendant who shut the boarding gate in my face. I made my connecting flight in Houston. it was a tight squeeze but You said there were plenty of open seats. when you saw my carry on suitcase you said there was no room and shut the door in my face.

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) February 11, 2019

Bialik was left in shock and feeling furious, questioning why she couldn’t somehow fit her suitcase in one of the alleged empty seats on board.

“And also why couldn’t my little suitcase somehow fit?” she wrote on Twitter. “Maybe the first class seat I was supposed to sit in could have held it and I would have gladly sat in all of the open seats anywhere on that plane.”

And also why couldn’t my little suitcase somehow fit? Maybe the first class seat I was supposed to sit in could have held it and I would have gladly sat in all of the open seats anywhere on that plane. 🙁

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) February 11, 2019

Bialik explained how she “aggressively” ran through the airport and barely made it to the gate for her connecting flight before being turned away. When the agent told her that her carry-on wouldn’t fit on board, Bialik tried explaining that she had a first-class ticket and that her bag could be stashed there.

“Random people think I’m a prima donna because as she shut the door I said ‘I have a first class seat!’ I didn’t mean I deserve it more, I meant can my suitcase sit in my first class seat and I’ll sit anywhere else?” Bialik wrote.

“And there were five other people from my flight standing there with me who she let on the plane,” Bialik continued. “They all had carry-on luggage too.”

And there were five other people from my flight standing there with me who she let on the plane. Maybe she just doesn’t like The Big Bang Theory. They all had carry-on luggage too.

— Mayim Bialik (@missmayim) February 11, 2019

Bialik also took to Instagram to vent her frustrations, elaborating on the alleged incident. She again put forth her theories as to why she was turned away from the gate.

“Maybe she hates the Big Bang Theory. Maybe she was having a bad day. Maybe she hates women who look like they’re going to cry,” Bialik wrote on Instagram.

Ok @united airlines. i know I barely made my connecting flight. But I made it despite your delays making me late. And you turned me away as you let 5 other people on from my connecting flight because I had a carry on suitcase. They had carry ons too. I understand everything was shut but that lady stewardess didn’t have to shut the boarding door like she did in my face without even saying she was sorry. Or with 7 min left she could have made a small effort to try harder since she said there were “plenty of seats open.” Maybe she hates the Big Bang theory. Maybe she was having a bad day. Maybe she hates women who look like they’re going to cry. Now my suitcase is broken from running so hard and aggressively, my asthma is super angry and random people think I’m a prima donna because as she shut the door I said “I have a first class seat!” I didn’t mean I deserve it more, I meant can my suitcase sit in my first class seat and I’ll sit anywhere else? Not a good day for me and @united .

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“Now my suitcase is broken from running so hard and aggressively, my asthma is super angry,” she added. “Not a good day for me and @united.”

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Air travelers in the United States will soon have new gender options when booking their flights. The five major airlines in the U.S.—Alaska, American, Delta, Southwest, and United—all confirmed to USA Today that they plan to offer the non-binary option to accommodate individuals who do not fit neatly into the male or female category. Other airlines may follow suit.

The shift toward more inclusive gender options comes after two major trade organizations, Airlines for America (A4A) and the International Air Transport Association (IATA), adopted more inclusive international standards for all fliers. In addition to “female” and “male” gender options available when booking air travel, from June 1, A4A and IATA will allow member airlines to offer two additional options: “unidentified” or “unspecified.”

The change should also streamline security procedures that have long caused distress to non-binary people, including transgender travelers. Federal regulations require that identity documents correspond with the traveler, and stories about extra scrutiny on non-binary travelers abound. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has policies in place for security screening accommodations for transgender fliers, so it makes sense that airlines would work toward updated guidelines that respect all fliers, regardless of gender or gender presentation, while also adhering to domestic and international laws about passenger identification.

Some airlines will implement these changes sooner than others. For example, while (luv) Southwest said it currently has no timetable for the policy updates, United said it would roll out all four options in the coming weeks.

Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport is expanding its arsenal of direct, daily flights this summer.

On June 7, daily flights from GSP to Denver International Airport will take off for the first time starting at 6 a.m. With the time change, Greenville passengers will arrive in Denver at 7:31 a.m.

The announcement comes two months after GSP started daily flights to Miami.

The new nonstop flight will bring its first daily load of up to 76 passengers from Denver to Greenville on June 6, arriving here at 10:38 p.m., according to a statement from GSP spokesman Dudley Brown. Flights from Greenville to Denver on the same plane begin the next day.

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United Airlines will operate the flight, its fifth nonstop destination from GSP to other cities.

GSP’s president and CEO, Dave Edwards, said in a statement that he was pleased to see the airport’s relationship with United expand.

“Denver is one of the top 10 cities that GSP passengers visit the most,” he said in the statement. “This new service will make it more convenient for passengers to visit Denver or connect to other West Coast destinations.”

First-class and coach seats will be available.

Steve Jaquith, United’s vice president of the Denver hub, said his airline will be able to connect GSP customers to hundreds of domestic and international destinations in United’s network.

United currently offers daily nonstop service from GSP to Chicago (ORD), Houston (IAH), Newark, N.J. (EWR), and Washington, D.C. (IAD).

The airline is, from my conversations with employees, desperately trying to differentiate itself from American Airlines, which seems to now represent the apogee of lucre-based, customer-neglecting flying.

 

United Airlines will add three new domestic routes at its Denver hub.

Daily flights to Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Syracuse, New York, will begin June 6 and will operate year-round. Flights to Portland, Maine, start June 8, but they’ll operate only on weekends during the summer schedule. (Scroll down for full schedule details)

All three of the new routes will go head-to-head against service offered by Denver-based budget rival Frontier Airlines.

The routes add to other previously announced United routes to Charleston, South Carolina; Eureka, California; and Fairbanks, Alaska. Those flights also begin June 6.

In other details announced Thursday, United will expand its existing weekend-only summer service to Burlington, Vermont; Savannah, Georgia; and Pensacola in Florida. A Sunday round-trip flight is being added to those routes, which currently fly only on Saturdays.

Also getting more flights will be United’s service between Denver and Fort Myers, Florida. The route previously operated only during the winter, but will now be offered Saturdays and Sundays during the summer and fall until daily service resumes as scheduled in October.

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The latest routes were announced the same day that United put its new “rebanked” schedule into effect at Denver. The airline has tweaked schedules on its “banks” of incoming and outgoing flights, trying to better match connecting passengers with flights.

United says the schedule adjustment – which began Thursday (Feb. 14) – will boost the number of morning flights available to business customers traveling from Denver to the East and West coasts while also improving connecting options for customers traveling to or from the airline’s Midwest and Mountain Region destinations. The effort was first announced last fall.

TODAY IN THE SKY: The fleet and hubs of United Airlines, by the numbers

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and provide better options to customers arriving on flights from smaller markets to get to destinations east and west of Denver,” he added.

United has already rebanked its schedules at its hubs at Chicago O’Hare and Houston Bush Intercontinental.

Schedule details for United’s three newest Denver routes are below.

TODAY IN THE SKY: United frequent-flyers splurge on miles to see Boeing 747 ‘disassembly center’ (story continues below)

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First look: United shows off its first Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner

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