News and notes from around the interweb:
- Yesterday morning I wrote Please help: I need 100,000 miles and 50 nights to requalify for elite status. Mommy Points disagrees, she says get off the elite treadmill, you don’t need those 50 nights and 100,000 miles this year.
- Eight Ways to Save on Travel in 2017 (New York Times so best to open in an incognito window so it doesn’t count against your free articles for the month.) They link to one of my posts on Delta’s devaluations and offer good advice like the low award fees in Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer.
- New Qatar pajamas for premium cabin passengers
- How hotel companies launch a new brand “Tub or shower only? What goes in the minibar?” (Wall Street Journal, HT: Bryan)
Why the bumper crop of new brands? In many cities, the big hotel companies, like Hilton and Marriott International Inc., already have so many properties under their existing brands that they need to launch new ones to keep growing…
- Man who kind of looks like the late Fidel Castro removed from Aeroflot flight after screaming he could see devils and everyone was going to die. So yeah, wait until you get home to do that.
- This is a year old, but I just discovered it — G-d tells a televangelist his faith requires him to fly private.
I was so disappointed to read in your blog “New York Times so best to open in an incognito window so it doesn’t count against your free articles for the month”. Why not actually pay for good journalism? Seems the least we can do.
If one has the money (or points) to pay for domestic first-class/international business-class then it doesn’t really matter if you have elite status. I would just buy the cheapest premium class of service on a reliable airline. As for hotels, if you’re traveling on an expense account or have deep pockets then who really needs the executive/conceirge lounge with cheap finger food at night and a continental breakfast in the morning?
@David Lerner – I don’t mind paying for good content. I don’t love the NYT options for this though. A basic digital subscription is $200/yr. I don’t like recurring charges/subscriptions. I would love to double the number of articles I could read vs free each month. Wish there was a non-renewing less expensive subscription, or a micropayments option.
G-d says the same thing to me… Clear as a bell… Oy, I must be a Tele Evangelist!
At any point in time the local psych ward has 5 or 6 gods in custody. after 72 hours they are released. I had no idea they flew private and spoke to these yahoo’s
I really wish you’d didn’t suggest ways people can circumvent the restrictions publishers put on their content to encourage people to actually pay for the services that are utilized.
Newspapers are important, the day they go away we are in serious trouble.
Who the heck is giving money to the con man televangelist so that he can buy a plane? The man is literally saying he talks to God and God talks back to him.
i dont understand this place, why is saying using incognito mode to read free article a bad thing? you are fed all the time with all kind of data, you dont take all of them in. why cant you post that $ saving tip on the blog & reader can choose to do it or not. unless this is the generation that cannot think for themselves and rely on being spoon fed everything.
Tele-evangelists do more than lay people.
@gary leff you might want to check the NYT plans again, I just subscribed via Google Play store for $9.99/month. Works on all devices. Much cheaper than it used to be. Also gives you access to http://app.nytimes.com/ which is a recreation of the daily paper and you can read offline. I love it for the plane or commute in the morning
@Joey, the New York Times has not yet gone away. Do you think we are not now in serious trouble?