News and notes from around the interweb:
- United’s “My Fingers Were Crossed” Defense Succeeds in Court: The lawsuit by United’s million milers over program changes has been dismissed. There was not really a dispute that United devalued the benefits offered to its million mile customers, even almost immediately after they promised not to do so. But United hadn’t promised not to break its promises, so its customers can’t sustain their suit.
- Here’s a Preview of Monday’s Fire Sale: IHG Rewards has posted a preview of the hotels they’ll be offering for just 5000 points a night (for stays through March 31) starting on Monday. The most desirable properties usually see strong demand and fall off the list quickly.
- That’s the Truth, Truth! The CEO of Choice Hotels really hated being on undercover boss. And running a disco was better than running a midscale hotel chain, too!
- LAX hates its passengers: They’re issuing fines like crazy to the drivers that passengers summon to pick them up
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I need to book round trip on united, the return date will be in 2015, but on untited website it only list 2014 flights, how can you do it?
@joan – not bookable yet
I ran into this with UberX a couple days ago at LAX. The driver called and told me he needed to pick me up in the parking deck, since drivers were getting fined left and right. It was pretty funny at the time…he talked about it for a while, and said the exact same stuff that article mentioned.
I saw that show with that fat slob CEO running Choice. The show didn’t make him look bad at all – he was simply incompetent and hadn’t known a hard days work in his life. But when you are the bosses son who owns a lousy motel, er hotel chain, you can get away with it.