Sean John Combs a.k.a Puff Daddy a.k.a P. Diddy, et al may have fled the country on his private jet. The Grammy Award-winning rap artist, who was estimated to have a net worth of $1 billion in 2022, has been sued multiple times for sexual assault. Now the government is after him for sex trafficking. The details of the government investigation haven’t been announced yet. However, Puff’s jet has gone poof out of the U.S.
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Supreme Court Challenges Government Overreach: A Landmark Case for Air Travel Rights
No Fly Lists include people added by mistake (FBI agent checking the wrong box on a form or having a name similar to someone else) and even added maliciously (such as retaliation for refusing to cooperate in an investigation).
Ghost Donors Are Paying For Politicians To Spend Big On Airfare, Hotels And Meals
A “ghost donor” is an identity that makes hundreds or thousands of small contributions to a campaign, and indeed to several campaigns, where the actual person attached to that identity doesn’t know anything about it.
New Uber Tipping Scam: How Drivers Are Manipulating Riders For More Money
Here’s an Uber tipping scam you need to watch out for. Tipping is still voluntary in the app, and there is no automatic tip for rides. But some drivers, apparently, are warning riders about an automatic “30% tip” if they don’t choose their own tip. That motivates riders to enter a tip.
Full Service Airlines And Hotels Have Forgotten They’re In The Hospitality Business
Here’s an interesting take I came across from the former owner of Eleven Madison Park restaurant in New York. He was able to create a ‘moment’ for diners one time by going outside to a hot dog cart and plating it for the guests. And that was the memory for them of the night.
TripAdvisor Wants To Move To Nevada, And That May Stop Tesla From Moving To Texas
TripAdvisor was acquired and became part of the same company as Expedia. It was later spun off as a public company. It earns most of its revenue from Expedia and Booking.com, selling eyeballs of customers searching hotels to those platforms. Even reviews got de-prioritized. It stopped being primarily a tool to help customers figure out where to stay.
Now there’s corporate intrigue over where TripAdvisor itself should find lodging. Can it move from Delaware incorporation to Nevada? And what a judge says there may decide whether Tesla can leave Delaware, too, after a judge struck down Elon Musk’s $55 billion compensation package.
4 Key Trends Taking Off With Frequent Flyer Programs (2 Of Them Get It Wrong)
The Global Loyalty Organization hosted loyalty leader predictions for 2024. A lot of it was milquetoast, and not really actionable, as so much corporate speak is wont to be. But there were a few real insights here. Four things especially stood out.
Jet Set Jams: The 13 Best Songs About Travel
Following my stab at a list of the 13 best movies about travel, I thought I’d work to come up with the very best songs about travel.
That’s a very different exercise than the best travel songs, this isn’t a ‘play list for the road’ it’s about borrowing someone else’s poetry to describe the travel experience. There’s no question that George Gershwin didn’t write Rhapsody in Blue to be about travel, but it’s equally clear that the 1924 composition has become inextricably linked with United Airlines.
What songs most evoke travel for you and are missing from my list? Which ones here are new to you?
5 Travel Questions You’ve Probably Never Thought Of
Uber’s Downward Spiral: How Driver Pay Has Worsened As The Company Stopped Innovating
Uber drivers are protesting their declining pay and it strikes me that there was an uproar over how Uber treated its drivers and that was part of pushing out their founder CEO, but things have actually gotten worse for drivers since then.