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Prince William Spotted Carrying His Family’s Luggage in Coach

Aug 24 2019

Though Prince Harry and Megan Markle came under fire recently for flying private they’re also known to fly commercial, and even flew coach for a New Year’s getaway. Sitting in the very back of an aircraft may be the best position where there are security concerns.

Prince Harry is also known to fly British Airways intra-European business class which is like flying coach. His grandfather Prince Philip, however, once remarked that air travel can be quite nice “provided you don’t travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.”

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Here’s How Marriott Hotels Play Games with Award Inventory to Deny You a Room

Aug 23 2019

Starwood Preferred Guest had a policy they called ‘true redemption’. It wasn’t just no blackouts, where a hotel put certain dates off limit for using points. It was no capacity controls. That meant if any standard room was available for sale you could use points to book that room.

Now with Marriott Bonvoy it seems some hotels are able to play games they weren’t able to before.

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