I often write that with all of the difficulties I have in navigating airlines — getting tickets issued properly, correcting agent mistakes — it amazes me that the median traveler is able to manage to get from A to B.
Airlines make things far more complicated and confusing than you’d expect, someone less familiar with the ins and outs of travel is at the mercy of big bureaucracy hardly aimed to solving problems let alone doing so quickly.
Plenty of people have access to your room, when you’re there and when you aren’t. Instead of paying your hotel for extra security, you’re paying the hotel and you’re extra vulnerable. Shudder.
Now add in desperation of a force majeure event and a total breakdown in law and order as appears to be happening on St. Maarten in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma and travel becomes scarier still.
There are a lot of strange hotels in the world, and hotels with strange stories, for instance the US Department of Veterans Affairs owns a boutique property in Paris.
Now there’s the new Hotel Kim Sing in Los Angeles between downtown and Chinatown. It’s at least tied for being the smallest hotel in LA rented just as a single room.
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I generally believe there’s a lot more fraud in the economy than comes to light. It hides in plain site until it isn’t hiding anymore.
Most of it is pretty bald faced, but people are lazy and don’t question what they’re told and don’t want to look stupid asking questions of others who are presumed to know what they’re talking about. Less than 2/3rds of CFOs, CEOs, and COOs can correctly finish a test of financial literacy.
A roundup of the most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
Delta 431 landed in San Juan a few hours ahead of Hurricane Irma on Wednesday. Wind gusts had been up over 40 knots. But they had a window.
The plane then prepped for a quick turn taking off as Delta 302. And the flight and its captain became an internet sensation. It was the last commercial departure out of San Juan.
Through September 25 Air France KLM Flying Blue is offering a 100% bonus on purchased miles when you buy between 4000 and 75,000.
With this offer you can buy miles for 1.375 Euro cents apiece or about $0.0166.
The old Sheraton slogan, “belong,” makes a lot of sense here. Phoenix residents do belong here, they paid for it.
In the aftermath of the David Dao dragging incident in April, several airlines revamped their policies around paying denied boarding compensation. Delta authorized gate agents to go up to $2000 in compensation, and allowed supervisors to offer up to $9950.
I’ve never heard of anyone receiving anything close to $10,000. Involuntary denied boardings are exceedingly rare already, especially on Delta. When they do guess wrong on overbooking customers usually volunteer their seats for a few hundred dollars.
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 »
