News and notes from around the interweb:
- Delta says 75% of travel spending comes from people with incomes over $100,000 which is hardly surprising, two decades ago I wrote that the average airline passenger (mean, not median or mode) had an income over $90,000.
- Etihad considered a two-story design for The Residence and here are other concepts ultimately rejected for premium cabins on their Airbus A380 as well. The Residence is the most luxurious commercial seat in the air offering seating, private bathroom with shower, and bedroom.
The living room and bathroom were located on the main deck, with a staircase leading to a bedroom on the top deck. …that journey included a ‘studio apartment’ approach, with two facing lounges in one half of the suite and the double bed in the other…… or with a long L-shaped settee down one side of the suite, and the bed located behind a frosted pane.
- How is this acceptable?
I was on a full American Airlines flight from CA to NY (6+ hrs) with a man and his large dog next to me in the middle seat. The dog was not in a carrier and was scared to death. The owner didn’t even pretend it was a service dog. @AmericanAir @FoxNews @CBSNews @CNN pic.twitter.com/GsDEX88DYl
— Nelson2142 (@nelson214216614) December 9, 2023
- Hilton is trademarking a lot of brands (Skift) but they’ve had challenges but have had IP challenges with Project H3.
- Adapt Suites by Hilton — Hilton filed in October to respond to potential name confusion with “Adapt Community Network,” an existing trademark.
- Belong Suites by Hilton — Status unclear. The government suspended this application pending another non-travel company’s application for the brand Belong, and then that other application was suspended in September.
- Dwelling Suites by Hilton — Hilton officially abandoned this application this month.
- Delve Suites by Hilton — On track for approval as of November, pending paperwork.
- Livsmart by Hilton — Approved in October.
- Livsmart Residences by Hilton — Filed in August, pending review.
- Livsmart Studios by Hilton — Approved in October.
- Livsmart Suites by Hilton — On track for approval as of November, pending paperwork.
- Suitely by Hilton — On track for approval as of November, pending paperwork.
- Suite Start — approved in October
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- Gleam by Hilton — On track for approval as of September, pending paperwork.
- Pixel by Hilton — On track for approval as of October, pending paperwork.
- Twilo by Hilton — On track for approval as of November, pending paperwork.
You can pick a rather dark bar with history and proximity to something important, like at the Driskill in Austin, a beach bar (hard to go wrong in the Maldives), and a ‘speakeasy’ and call it good. At least choose ones you’ve been to!
Setting off the dog nutters?
Bold move Gary
Income of business travelers is irrelevant because most of the money being spent is other people’s money. I make around $75,000 but benefit from about $40,000 a year in travel on work’s expense. At most, I spend about $3,000 of my own money every year on travel. I do around 225 nights in a hotel. As a result, I have no house or mortgage. I pay utilities for the mother-in-law unit above the garage at my cousin’s house by the airport.
Just now realizing the sheer amount of human trafficking being done by US carriers Gary? Those GSA contracts have the carriers bent over a barrel to say the least. What’s even better is inside security at TUS, there are placards all over regarding human trafficking. The Breitbart article forgot to mention these illegals are all dressed in odd donation bin clothing and many have cell phones, most are younger males, and the “families” are anything but.
Gary, where’d you get the thumbnail art — only white people travel on Delta?
The report says “Households with $100,000 or more in annual income” but the story headline says “people with incomes over $100,000” indicating individual incomes. With both people in a relationship living together and working, a household income of $100,000 is not from a special group these days.
Link to a Breitbart “article?”
@jns – $100,000 salary for an individual isn’t that much today. There are jobs that start people right out of school at more than that.
@AC, and people whine about not having enough to buy a house. They took the wrong subjects in college or did not become a plumber, an electrician or an electric power line worker after going to trade school.
Households of $100k not individuals
There are plenty of OPM flyers who think that “they” spend 50k on airfare, but its all OPM.
A lot of OPM flyers done actually make anywhere close to 100k lol, usually the ones who flaunt their airline status to cover up for the misery of making very little for a lot of time away from home
That Breitbart article was bad, but the comments were even worse. As Gary has pointed out numerous times in the past, it is possible to fly commercially without ID, in this case they just set up a line specifically for people without IDs who were also not a US citizen, so as to not inconvenience the people in other lines with the alternate procedures used for identification people without IDs. While the article complains about people not having any picture ID, I’m sure the US has plenty of pictures of the people processed, and that TSA has access to those pictures.
@john H – i thought nobody as above the law?
@Tax Paying Citizen: Above what law? There’s no law that you need photo ID to fly, that’s just the quickest way through security.
With facial recognition technology what it is today, TSA may even have a better Idea who is going through the no-ID line pulling racial recognition from federal databases that include photos from border crossings / immigration arrests than they do for people presenting pieces of plastic from state governments.
The separate line also allows them to have equipment in the relevant spot to CAPTURE facial images too.
End of the day, everybody is going through the screening anyway.