News and notes from around the interweb:
- Earn British Airways Avios for Airbnb stays
- I joined the latest Miles2Go podcast talking about the new Hyatt-American Airlines partnership.
- In March I detailed United’s new system to determine whether to hold a plane for connecting passengers. Now that it’s been tested in Denver, subsequently rolled out in Chicago, and in queue for more hubs Cranky Flier gets a look at how ConnectionSaver works.
- Incentives matter and predictably drive consequences. New York City’s $17 minimum wage for rideshare drivers is designed to hurt rideshare companies and benefit taxis, under the guise of helping drivers. But it wasn’t well thought out. Lyft will no longer let most drivers log onto their app in areas with low rider demand, because they’d have to guarantee an income to drivers who aren’t generating revenue. That pushes more cars to midtown, which the Taxi and Limousine Commission doesn’t like because it increases competition for taxis under the guise of worrying about congestion.
- National Car Rental 1-2-Free returns though with Uber and Lyft it’s harder than ever to get excited about car rentals.
- How Air Traffic Control Works. New Wendover Productions video, their stuff is always worth watching.
- How Air Traffic Control Works. New Wendover Productions video, their stuff is always worth watching.
I jump on a lot of new technology. But for business travel I just can’t get excited about using Uber instead of a rental car. I do have to drive from customer to customer, often in more industrial areas (read: not dense urban corridors) so maybe I’m unique in that way. But rather than being freeing I feel so trapped or worried about wait times that I only tried it once and (for the time being) never again.
I’d like to suggest indicating when links are behind paywalls.
Can’t read the Crains article at all.