News and notes from the interweb:
- TSA screener arrested for ordering Korean exchange student into men’s restroom and sexually abusing her. “A few bad apples who in no way…” (HT: Milepoint)
- United wants to be as good as Delta, and plans to make changes in four months in hopes of improving.
United plans in January to alter its schedules to resemble the way rivals circulate planes through their networks, Vice President of Network Operations Tracy Lee told Reuters.
…”Delta is running a very good airline, and I want to equal that,” Lee said.
- How you can wind up on the no fly list for nothing more than visiting the wrong country in the wrong year.
- On Wednesday I wrote about a reader’s iPhone lost in Michael Douglas’ first class seat. American found the iPhone and it’s on its way back to the reader. I received a note this morning from American:
Following up on your blog post about the missing iPhone. We found it and we’re sending it back to the customer after contacting him yesterday. During the search, we found two different lost item records for this same phone. So, despite the unfortunate chain of events that left him questioning our process, the search was well underway.
- John Pawson to convert Jaffa convent and hospital into W’s first hotel in Israel (HT: Andreas R)
In a recent post, you claimed (due to your efforts), Hyatt had fixed its award blocking issues. Please advise:
http://viewfromthewing.com/2015/08/27/at-what-point-is-award-night-blocking-no-longer-a-glitch/
@Mark I did not say this was fixed chain-wide and for good, I relayed that they successfully addressed it at the properties identified at the time. I read Lucky’s post, including that he was raising the issue with Hyatt and would report back, so decided it wouldn’t be appropriate for me to step on his toes to ask after it myself. He found that one, he deserves to be able to chase it down and solve it. Just felt wrong to query that one myself. YMMV of course.
You can’t make drastic changes to your schedule (like UA wants to do), oh, next week. You need lead time.
I followed your link about “How you can wind up on the no fly list for nothing more than visiting the wrong country in the wrong year.” The story involved someone who converted to islam and travelled to Yemen to study arabic. That is hardly “nothing more than visiting the wrong country in the wrong year.” If we don’t see that as a sign of trouble, we are just deliberately blind to the obvious.
W TLV has been going up for years. Was supposed to have been finished by now, but it keeps getting pushed back.
LOL @AA’s “unfortunate chain of events”. Code speak “unfortunate chain of service failures”.