News and notes from around the interweb:
- This is just too weird, people taking your finger prints off digital photos posted on the internet.
- Emirates is rolling out a new electronic Meal Ordering Device for Business Class passengers but teething problems are causing a headache for Cabin Crew
- 15% off hotel bookings
- Say Hello To The Two Black Female Pilots That Made History For Delta Airlines
- My frequent refrain, “I am not my fare” is accompanied by the reminder that “business travelers are leisure travelers,” the same people buying premium tickets for work during the week may book the cheapest tickets with their families over the weekend.
How a travel provider treats the people they love, and whether they help make their customer a hero to those people, may determine whether or not they get that premium business. This is important:
“You can’t have a [frequent] business-class traveler [who is] traveling in economy with his family being treated like an economy traveler,” says Holi. The next time the frequent business traveler books a flight, which might be the week after he or she traveled with an entire family of young children in coach, that traveler may well remember any poor treatment by the airline in the economy cabin and book business class seats on another airline from then on.
- Can it be safe to visit Iraq? At least in the North?
- The New York Times has a surprisingly accurate take on transferrable points currencies down to leveraging Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer and Hyatt transfers for use at the Park Hyatt Hadahaa in the Maldives.
- Hotel gives out free upgrades to customers who arrived by plane in a middle seat
I used to try to keep my fingerprints to myself whenever possible… then the government of India decided to (sometimes) require a thumb scan when entering the country.
I wish there were an option to decline. I’m quite confident that my thumb print is in a database outside of India’s government now and I cannot easily replace my thumb.
I spent five days in Iraqi Kurdistan in December (unfortunately didn’t get to travel outside Erbil). It’s absolutely safe, and going is a great idea if you get a guide, as Caroline Lupini did. I wouldn’t at all recommend trying to do much on your own, as there’s no tourism infrastructure and few people speak English.
Hi Gary,
I was trying to transfer pts from ink preferred and chase sapphire to united for award ticket but I told by chase that these 2 cards are not eligible for transfer. Any thought will be highly appreciated. Thanks.
@Shafiq call back or do it online Chase Sapphire Preferred and Ink Business Preferred are eligible for transfers
NYT not citing the community
Damn NYT. Now when someone blames you for spoiling a deal, just refer them to NYT . Oh, but wait, they got the ideas from your site. NVM.
Now everyone can experience the fantastic a/c at the Park Hyatt Hadahaa… That is, if they happen to get a job working in the reception area.