News and notes from around the interweb:
- Delta reverses a decision to cut travel benefits for 19,000 baggage handler, ticket counter, and other service employees who work for a subsidiary – Delta Global Services – in which the airline has sold a majority of ownership.
Existing employees will keep current benefits, new employees will receive far less, and because of the change in control everyone will have to pay taxes on what they receive.
- 7 step playbook for B.S. response to your company’s data breach, and where the data goes when it’s stolen (HT: Allan H.)
- Invention promises airport security screening without queues Filed under our creepy technological future is here.
- A new The Club airport lounge is coming to Las Vegas D gates.
@garyleff @OneMileataTime (Delta D gates at LAS) pic.twitter.com/lvZSlxq5cm
— djjohnpayne (@djjohnpayne) December 14, 2018
- Why do hotel companies have so many brands?
- Delta says you’ll be able to pay for all of the airline’s optional services using their (hyperinflated) currency starting in 2021. Personally I’d consider blowing all my SkyMiles now while they’re selling glasses of Dom Perignon for 1750 miles apiece.
- Adam Ruins Everything: Frequent Flyer Miles: Revenue-based earn, devaluation, expiration. In my view not one of his better works, but passed along for general interest.
i’ve asked about the Dom in two Sky Lounges on my last flights. In both cases the bottle had been opened a couple of days earlier and a stopper put in the bottle. I wanted a couple of glasses for that price but i couldn’t imagine that it would be very good.
Why do hotels have so many brands? My guess would be …. It creates an illusion of competition among the uninformed when there really is very little. Imagine if every Starwood was called a Marriott, Renaissance …..
“Adam Ruins Everything” is a complete farce….half-truths and outright FALSITIES are marketed as truth and a heaping serving of radical liberalism is thrown in for good measure. It is an abortion adapted for television! Such a disgrace!
Why Do Hotel Companies Have So Many Brands? I knew I was being fed BS when the writer couldn’t tell the (substantial) difference between the Luxury and Tribute portfolios. Oy vey.
The article was a very wordy attempt to tell us what every road warrior already knows: Marriott wants so many brands because we are in the midst of a hotel construction boom, and it has become impossible to sell a potential franchisee a brand that already exists down the street.
A place like Orlando could probably fill 10 Fairfield Inns, but Marriott could find anyone to pay to build the 10th Fairfield when 9 already exist across town.