News and notes from around the interweb:
- Stay classy, Delta.
Unlike NYC lounge every thing in LAX club is ordered from a small menu and brought by staff. Before we left, the server gave us a laminated card with his personal Venmo Account so we could give him a tip. It had the Delta One logo on the bottom.
Venmo Tip Card at Delta One Lounge LAX
byu/Excellent_Walk_1058 indelta - Ultra-low cost carrier Avelo Airlines has contracted to run 3 Boeing 737s from Mesa, Arizona for deportation flights.
- San Francisco Centurion lounge temporarily moving into old Admirals Club space in terminal 2
- The British have discovered proper barbecue
- Fake short-term rental listings reportedly a big problem on Booking.com (Skift)
- Stripping Business Class Bare: The Rise and Risks of No-Frills Premium Travel (Skift) Delta says they, too, plan to ‘unbundle’ business class and load it up with fees in order to charge more for what they offer today. The problem is that bundling is actually the proft-maximizing strategy for business class and stripping out perks and annoying premium customers dilutes the brand and makes their business product less attractive than those of competitors.
So many complete and total losers on that reddit thread virtue signaling about their putative tipping generosity
I have had “American” BBQ in a few spots in Europe and I would put it on par with some chain bbq like Dickey’s but neither are close to what I can make in my back yard pit. Not terrible, but far from amazing.
I am just here for the premium Delta tip card joke.
Remember when, tipping was for good serve, a thank you. Now, it’s so companies can pay less, and guilt you into paying a decent wage.
I actually got to enjoy a meal in Business Class on Delta for the first time in two years last week.
The food was good, the service wonderful.
Unbundling that meal would have meant I would not be making this comment, because I would have carried on a protein bar, and called it good.
@ Gary — No card + superior service = maybe tip; Hand me a card = no tip.
I’d email Delta and if possible also speak to a supervisor on premise to express my outrage that Delta is unwilling to pay anything resembling a fair wage, causing the servers to have to make tasteless gestures to survive.
Tipping is a standard expectation in the f&b service industry.
If you don’t like it, don’t partake in the service.
Period.
Your refusal to tip hurts the individual(s) who served you, not The Man.
This is SF levels of entitlement, where they go into a business, take what they want, and refuse to pay for it bc f- The Man and those big companies got $ and law enforcement can’t/won’t do anything about it.
If you don’t like it, don’t engage in any of it. Simple.
I find when posters feel the need to call others Virtue Signallerz they are defensive and feel the need to loudly obfuscate their own deficient behaviour.
@Gary, it is my understanding that d1 lounge staff are not Delta employees. Is LAX an exception? Thanks~
Not cool, Avelo… not cool.
Exactly @1990, A low cost airline doing deportation flights! Outrageous, Delta should be doing it. (In best Donald) “Only the best most premium deportation flight for the illegals”.
Pay your employees. No tipping
@Reagan – No
@Pilot93434 — Bah! Good impression.
I believe fellow regular @Matt would suggest something like: ‘For a premium deportation flight experience, please consider Delta.’
Then I would say: ‘Keep Climbing…’ from political persecution in Venezuela or elsewhere… through the deadly jungles of the Darién Gap… and the scorching heat of the Sonoran Desert… in hope of a better life for you and your family… only to wait years and years for your asylum case to never be heard… then to get swept up in an ICE raid… and sent without due process to a notorious El Salvadorian forever-gulag… but, at least your ‘last flight’ might be on Delta, rather than Avelo.
Ya know, it’s the little things.
Similar in Minneapolis, the bartender had a QR code for Venmo to leave tips.