Stranded at JFK: American Airlines’ $100 Hotel Limit Leaves Passengers Stuck After Midnight Diversion [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • The American Airlines terminal at New York JFK can seem abandoned even at peak times, but at nearly 1 a.m. it’s a ghost town. There aren’t nearby hotels you’d want to sleep in anyway, other than the TWA Hotel (which broadly disappoints at the usual price) and Hyatt Regency Resorts World (which lacks a shuttle). $100 for a room in New York though, that really is something.

  • I actually think this is a good idea. Missionaries should pay to proselytize you, and I accept payment in discounted upgrades. Also, that’s what noise cancelling earphones are for.

    I took advantage of a $250 upgrade to PE offer on my HND-DFW today. A heck of a deal! The equivalent upgrade on the outbound flight was about $3700.

    And what did I get with my upgrade? Better food, a nice neck pillow … and a woman sitting next to me who just wanted to proselytize me. Making sure I was good with the Lord and all.

  • Delta is, statistically, much better with wheelchairs than some other carriers but the general treatment of passengers with a real need is unfortunate. Wheelchair assistance gets outsourced to lowest-cost providers, and wheelchair handling (these are expensive devices) lacking.

  • Did your mama really raise you that way?

  • For those of you with this Capital One Shopping offer, wow the return…

    Should I drop $675 to see if this really works?!
    byu/dodge_this inVenturex

  • Hertz Presidents Circle members can log into their account and then share Presidents Circle status with two friends.

About Gary Leff

Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel - a topic he has covered since 2002. Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »

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Comments

  1. Yah, I don’t want to burden anyone else with Hertz and a future arrest…so I’ll just keep those upgrades to myself.

  2. @ united foot lady I hope you made it obvious you were taking a picture of her. Should have asked her name for the article you were writing. “I was raised in a barn”

    @jfk $100. Ha ha I booked a room there for a 14 hr layover. $267 and that was back in May. Thank god my flight got. Changed and went thur LHR

  3. *Hertz Presidents Circle members can log into their account and then share Presidents Circle status with two enemies

  4. There needs to be a forced increase in food vouchers and hotel reimbursement in the event the airline can’t secure a room. But our Transportation Secretary would be clueless to this scam.

  6. It makes you want to pack a sleeping bag and two or three denatured* MRE’s in your carryon.

    And just do it yourself or drive next time.

    * Denatured MRE. MRE with heating chemicals and anything dangerous removed

  7. There needs to be a forced increase in food vouchers and hotel reimbursement in the event the airline can’t secure a room.

    Shouldn’t that fall under the purview of travel-insurances services instead? Or just planning trips better?

  8. I should have known better than to click through to X. Right under a post about American Airlines, there was some guy in a MAGA hat spewing pejoratives about Jews.

  9. Storm Darragh, a large winter storm with hurricane force wind gusts, hit the London area so the advancing storm front may have been the reason for the diversion (lack of a good time window to land and possibly lower than desired reserves to make it to a diversion airport close to London). Per the rules in the USA, airlines don’t have to compensate for weather related delays, diversions and cancelations. The next day flight was diverted to Brussels. Scat happens, deal with it. If you think it is the airline lying, quit using them.

  11. The TWA Hotel may indeed “disappoint” for the hard core business traveler but that’s not who they’re actively courting either. It’s the AVGeek. And on that front they don’t disappoint. At all.

  12. Not expecting it anytime soon, but it sure would be nice if our elected officials did their jobs, stopped collecting bribes from the airline lobby, and actually passed meaningful passenger rights legislation, like EU261/APPR, which could include a baseline standard for overnight hotel stays. That way, situations like this simply would not occur.

    Or, and I know there are some of you who troll and/or truly do prefer to bootlick and carry water for the oligarchs, please continue with whatever nonsense this was. Like, how self-loathing do you have to be to not want things to improve. ‘But, but.. it’ll be more expensive if..’ Nope. They’ll raise prices regardless, fools.

  13. It’s called “travel insurance”. Like the old AMEX ad…”Don’t leave home without it”.

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