New and notes from around the interweb:
- 10% off United tickets booked through their mobile app for customers aged 18-22. Put another way, older people pay more.
- Mackinac Island’s Grand Hotel has been sold to private equity. (HT: D.)
- Delta increasing its stake in Korean Air’s parent company to 10%
- Cathay Pacific will end its New York JFK – Vancouver flight in April
- 30% bonus transferring hotel points to Aeroplan miles through September 22. Marriott transfers are especially useful, of course (though Marriott points harder to earn now that the Starwood Amex is no longer and card earning has been cut by 1/3). 60,000 Marriott points transfer to 32,500 Aeroplan miles.
- TSA Pre-Check shouldn’t exist. The argument that we “shouldn’t have to sacrifice privacy for convenience” rings true (the government inconveniences us so much that we’ll give more to the government to avoid it), especially when TSA security theater doesn’t much affect the extent to which we’re safe. However the inequality argument strikes me as incorrect.
There are security haves and have nots (PreCheck vs not), but more frequent travelers wait in security lines longer overall than the once a year traveler (they’re the more inconvenienced in total, even if they have PreCheck) and the theory of PreCheck is right: TSA should take a risk-based approach to security, focusing resources on greatest threats not treating everyone equally and inconveniencing equally because doing so distracts resources from those threats.
Isn’t price discrimination by age illegal?
Senior citizens’ discounts say no…
Discounting for kids also says no
Now that I am eligible for some senior discounts, I look forward to seeing them change to senior surcharges. This is simply how the world works. All good deals end before I can use them. 🙂
This reeks of age discrimination.
This is 100% ILLEGAL, based on the Unruh Act. See e.g. the Tinder lawsuit.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/25/18197575/tinder-plus-age-discrimination-lawsuit-settlement-super-likes
The late, missed AirTran offered young customers a flat distance based standby only travel option: if you were age 18-22 you could fly space available for $49/$69/$99 depending on the sector. Miss you, AirTranU.
Student discounts are alive and well in some markets (STA Travel is mostly a TA tho).
PreCheck is a bribe to anyone with the ability to get things done. In exchange for agreeing not to get things done by lobbying our Congresspeople to change some silly TSA practices, they give us the pre-9/11 experience.
The Unruh Act forbids pricing depending on age. Google “Tinder” “Lawsuit” “29 years”.
That title is really misleading… clickbait. *sigh*
@asianmiler
welcome to the cockroach’s lair. he has plenty more where that came from.
If’n you get an AARP discount, is that illegal?
Maybe if he and others like him had to work for a living he would think different, PLONKER!
“PreCheck is right: TSA should take a risk-based approach to security, focusing resources on greatest threats not treating everyone equally and inconveniencing equally because doing so distracts resources from those threats.”
Problem is people will scream
RACIAL PROFILIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG!
when it turns out a lot of the risk is people traveling to/from middle eastern lands.
@Ed: “The Unruh Act forbids pricing depending on age. Google “Tinder” “Lawsuit” “29 years”.”
I’m pretty sure the ‘Rome Statute’ comes into play as well. Lol.
whats with people that just post how much they hate the site?
Also, I’m very worried about what some equity company will do to the Grand Hotel. Keep the MBAs away!
This makes me think of United’s 12-21 Club, which offered half price standby flights for the young back in the 1960s and 70s. It definitely was age discrimination, but it was blessed by the old Civil Aeronautics Board and it got me my first flight — at age 14 — from BUF to PIT (!) with a friend to visit his aunt. Any other former members here?