News and notes from around the interweb:
- Reminder to keep checking points prices of Marriott free night awards after you’ve booked. Marriott regularly adjusts prices – including down (if they don’t expect the hotel to be full, their cost for the room is much lower).
Just a reminder to everyone to double check current hotel rates after booking. I booked the new 3 waters resort in Islamorada ~6 weeks ago for a trip in March. It was ~90,000/points per night but I had a 85k cert to burn so I used that and 180k points for a decent room with a balcony in ‘the cove’. Checked occasionally over the last month and saw rates had dropped but the room type I had wasn’t available, only non balconies. Check yesterday and bam, same room for only 55k/point per night avg. Was able to rebook, use my cert for the most expensive night and was refunded 75,000 points! What a deal.
- Not what you want to have passengers hear from a safety professional
Hey @AmericanAir, you might want to check on the door latch on N771SK CRJ700 used for AA6219 yesterday from ABQ to PHX. The cockpit door opened as we were taking off, causing the lead FA Julia, who was sitting in 1A in First Class, to exclaim, “Oh shit.” Something to look into? pic.twitter.com/CJPOsW1b1s
— k free (she/her) (@__KFree) February 24, 2025
- Virgin Pilot Alerted Australia to China Navy Live-Fire Drill (HT: @crucker)
- United opens grab ‘n go club in Houston
Credit: United Airlines - Say what? easyJet offers status match to disaffected BA elites
- United Airlines makes another investment in direct carbon capture. Ultimately it’s technological advancement that’s our only path towards better environmental stewardship. We aren’t going to stop growth, politics won’t support it. We’re going to have to find better ways of solving for environmental problems and this does hold promise – the technology works, investment just needs to bring down cost.
not only marriott
I just cancelled and rebooked a stay at intercontinental in melbourne australia that I booked 6 months ago, looked 2 days ago and price dropped by 5k points per night….
always good to check
If you are worried about carbon dioxide, there is an existing, proven technology that literally eats CO2 as food. It also provides shade and can cool urban hot spots. Better yet, they sh*& oxygen which last I checked is good for humans and other mammals.
But why use that if we can invent a massive, expensive, energy hog to capture, compress, and then inject CO2 into the ground.