News and notes from around the interweb:
- Booking an entire British Airways first class cabin on points
- All Nippon Airways is collaborating with the director of Final Fantasy XV on a travel role playing game
- JSX can continue to operate scheduled service from Orange County as a hop-on hop-off service
- Thai hotel groups urge scrapping of quarantine rules for vaccinated tourists (FT)
- Japanese mask-resister arrested four months after inflight incident
- TSA is crowdsourcing ideas on how to collect and use more data because they aren’t intrusive enough as it is.
- A Hilton Home2 Suites finds a loophole to build an extra story above what zoning would permit. Affordable housing allows bonus density in this case additional height. So creating one below-market apartment, the hotel gets a full extra floor.
Using an existing zoning regulation properly to incentivize new below market rate housing as written in the code, is not a loophole.
Yeah, that’s just poorly written code. I expect they’ll revise it to what they want so this can’t happen again, but it’s probably too late to stop this development.
RE: Entire cabin on points – That’s insane. Person is blowing thousands of quid, in cash, on F tickets, and just using points as an arbitrage opportunity to keep costs down. Fine for what it is, but def not what most people, even those deep in miles and points, would think of as being realistic.
@DD
It is a loophole when a hotel abuses it…
A hotel is not a common provider of housing for ling term anyway and the law was not intended to provide for one apartment in the entire building
That is a definition of loophole, something legal but questionable…
@ Gary — Remind me never to stay at a Home2Suites.
I’d say that TSA actually is intrusive enough.