News and notes from around the interweb:
- Enter my giveaway for a Ritz-Carlton stay. It makes for an amazing Doha stopover…
- Atlantic city council member wants better-designed airport restrooms and a pony.
- Radpad will no longer process rent payments
- On Sunday Alaska Airlines removed a passenger who catcalled a flight attendant during the safety demonstration. Because locker room talk or no, it’s not appropriate. In India the passenger could have been prosecuted for outraging the modesty of a woman which doesn’t seem exactly right either. I think Alaska struck the best balance here.
- Etihad will increase to daily service on Dallas – Abu Dhabi next year. This is already a good flight for premium cabin award availability.
- DFW airport now claims to be carbon neutral. Many of its projects are laudable, but the claim itself is somewhat strained since it relies unquestioningly on the value of ‘carbon offsets’ and ‘renewable energy certificates’ — i.e. a belief that they can give money to someone else and that money really helps the environment as much or more.
- Hyatt’s Concourse Hotel LAX has been rebranded a Hyatt Regency. I always had expected it to become part of a Hyatt un-brand.
The Concourse, now HR LAX has been giving Diamond guests a 2500 point “Lounge Closed” bonus in recent times.
I had a FULL Quick Park bus drive strait past me outside T5 – I guess there was nowhere for me to fit. Parking Lot C is a 5 minute walk from the hotel, so the C bus can used instead.
Also, the Quick Park bus is scheduled to more frequently travel strait to the airport bypassing the Hotel, so if you miss a bus from the hotel you can simply walk to the parking lot.
It’s appropriate if its a trump supporter. All women trump supporters have extended an open invitation for pu%sy grabbing. It means you are a true republican and they will like that.
Carbon offsets are a scam more often than not, so I take this claim of carbon neutrality with a grain of salt. DFW could probably install A LOT of solar if they wanted to, given the amount of roof they have to work with. That would be significantly more credible than paying someone to plant trees in California or whatever.
I’m trying to remember, but IIRC the Concourse long, long ago was a Hyatt. I’m talking sometime around 1980 or so. I could be wrong, but perhaps someone with a good memory can confirm/deny.
Oh wow CAN I really fly from Dallas to Abu Dhabi Fo’ FREE?
Will Will Smith be speaking?
Maybe he just had a bad case of “Middle Seat Madness” ?
Not seeing the link for better bathrooms at ATL.
Gary is that the former Radisson opposite T1?
Hyatt is small and insignificant. Granted you can’t be all things to all people but they seem to have tons of properties in places I have little interest going.
Have two full service properties in city limits of second largest MSA. Meanwhile tons of choices in Chicago, Dubai, Shanghai. Blah.
@Josh yes.
The Alaska airlines story seems a bit odd. He said “ooh sexy” when she was doing the life vest demonstration and that was enough to be kicked off the flight? I wasn’t there so maybe it was clearer if you were present or maybe he did more than this, but it sounded like it could mean he was making a joke saying the life vest is sexy not the flight attendant. Still without more I think its a bit of an over reaction to throw a paying passenger off the plane. If he was grabbing at the attendant or kept making comments that would be different, but it seems like one comment which wasn’t excessively crude was all he said. Is he mature? Absolutely not, but let’s not go overboard here, unless someone refuses directions to stop.