Iran attacks US bases in five Middle East nations and a cabin fire occurs on American Airlines Flight 2398 while airlines unveil new products and routes.
how this picture was made
Painted by seedream-v5-pro on api.venice.ai, 2026-09-05 01:32Z. Scene directed by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast.
The scene the art director wrote
A darkened airport terminal at dusk with travelers in the foreground, a burning plane in the distance, and a missile contrail visible through the windows, as airline staff and passengers react with concern and urgency.
Inside the house scaffold (the fixed style + safety clauses), the full prompt the painter received
Sprawling painted editorial illustration for a newspaper front page: A darkened airport terminal at dusk with travelers in the foreground, a burning plane in the distance, and a missile contrail visible through the windows, as airline staff and passengers react with concern and urgency. Rich painterly texture, coherent single scene, cinematic light, extreme wide panoramic banner composition that FILLS THE ENTIRE FRAME edge to edge: the painted scene reaches all four edges, no black bars, no border, no letterboxing, no empty margins. Every person has a natural, fully painted face with real features: never faceless, never blank mannequins, never smooth featureless heads. All people are fictional and resemble no real public figure. Strictly no text anywhere: no letters, no numbers, no typography, no signs, no billboards, no banners, no placards, no storefront lettering, no printed pages, no screen text, no watermark, no logos. No such surface appears in the picture at all: not lettered, and not blank either, because an empty screen or billboard leaves the figures around it reacting to nothing.
The picture's own pin (SHA-256 of the exact bytes served)
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United Airlines threatens to fire flight attendants over delay pay trading
The carrier warns staff that picking up assignments known to be unworkable for financial gain will result in termination.
By Gordon Frame · 5wUnited Airlines is threatening to fire flight attendants who pick up flight assignments knowing they will be delayed and unable to work them.
The carrier sent a memo to its more than 28,000 flight attendants warning that attempting to profit from flight delays may result in termination. United describes the practice of collecting pay for trips that become unworkable due to delays as 'conflict trading' and 'impermissible and fraudulent'.
The airline stated that employees are exploiting the time it takes for information about flight delays to reach the system that checks eligibility for additional work. United requires that employees have the intent and ability to operate a trip when they pick it up, whether from Open Time or another flight attendant.
The read here is that United views the use of insider information about rolling delays to bid on future trips solely to trigger pay protection clauses as a violation of the principle of having the intent and ability to operate a trip. United warned flight attendants that violating this principle can result in discipline or termination.
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