News and notes from around the interweb:
- Well that took about as long as I’d expect: Southwest Airlines lawyers have strong-armed Southwest Monkey into shutting down. They go after anyone whose service interacts with their website.
- Luxury Travel Diary offers amazing value auctions largely because there don’t seem to be enough bidders to drive up prices. And they’ve reached out to sweeten their already amazing deals: £50 off any wins over £200 for auctions ending in 2017 with code VFTW1. Just respond with the code when you receive your invoice for the win and they’ll reduce the price.
- Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General details the chaos as it tried to implement the administration’s travel ban in January
- IHG Rewards Club now offers top tier elites 10 a.m. check-in but it’s only subject to availability, not guaranteed (like 8 a.m. check-in for Royal Ambassadors at Intercontinental properties) and doesn’t compare to confirmed early check-in with a 24 hour clock for Starwood 100 night elites, at best it’s similar to Hyatt which offers early check-in to top tier members.
- The most luxurious hotel closets in the world
- Toronto passengers survived a delay by having a dance party at their gate (HT: Paul H.)
The video is fun to watch. I am sure it violated some sort of airport artificial noise ordinance, so I wouldn’t expect it to become routine.
But isn’t that why iPods and earphones were invented?