Woman gets $30,000 for refusing to wear pants. Gotta love those EEOC consent decrees. Brinks security hired her back, accomodated her preferences, and still has to pay damages.
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for January 2003.
Hilton website hacks. Hilton doesn’t
Hilton website hacks. Hilton doesn’t currently offer award redemption online, or does it? (Thanks to djohannw from Flyertalk.) Go to any Hilton hotel you want to book an award stay at and select “Book a room.” When the main reservation page comes up where you select dates and preferences, add the following text to the URL in your browser’s adress line: &spec_plan_desc=HHonors+Redemption&spec_plan=HH Press return to reload that page. You now will see the same page as before with a checked field “HHonors Redemption”. Now enter your requested dates and click on “Next.” On the rates page, you will now see the HHonors certificate rate if the hotel has award rooms available. The rate description for that looks as follows: HHONORS REDEMPTION (HH) BOOKABLE BY HHONORS MEMBERS WITH A VALD CERT Plan Description: HHONORS REDEMPTION BOOKABLE…
New USAirways members
New USAirways members earn 2,500 or 5,000 miles with their first flight. I’ve posted this before — but I just realized it expires December 31, 2003 and I thought it expired at the end of 2002.
Great passenger quote. Over on
Great passenger quote. Over on Flyertalk.com, Matthew Clement writes that Flight attendants may be there primarily for my safety, but in a premium cabin they have significant customer-service responsibilities as well, regardless of what their training material may say. A business class ticket is ten times the cost of an economy ticket, and if I’m not receiving ten times the safety, I’d better receive ten times the service.