News and notes from around the interweb:
- Excellent thread with photos and video of the not-yet-open new Kansas City airport terminal.
- SkyTeam member and Delta partner ITA Airways (the former Alitalia) is offering a status match again, but this time requiring you have an existing booking with the airline. One could, presumably, make a refundable booking then claim the match and refund the ticket. They’re even matching status that expired in 2019.
- Still shorter than the line to get into the Sky Club?
This is the @Delta customer service counter @JFK Airport. They have a single person behind the counter to make arrangements for several cancelled flights. #madness #poorcuatomerService pic.twitter.com/GEW9R0Khqs
— Sergio Mendoza (@SergioM49326744) August 7, 2022
- United Airlines pilots refused to operate flight to Tel Aviv amidst rocket attacks on Israel. The airline blamed an airport curfew, which didn’t exist.
- Don’t touch the coffee pot, drinking glasses, or bed spread in your hotel room. Even where brand standards require better cleaning and replacement than reported here that doesn’t mean the franchise you’re staying in actually does that.
@_sourqueen #hotelstories #housekeepersecrets #hotelhorrorstories #formerhousekeeper #facts ♬ original sound – The Snows❄️ - UFO testimony (HT: Marginal Revolution)
- Hertz devaluation coming August 9th they’re giving you a few days’ notice but won’t even detail the changes. Best guess: you’ll no longer be able to redeem points for bail.
@ Gary — Toi bad for Hertz that we have no points. Used a ton of them at great value during 2020. Still haven’t been arrested, but will not be renting from them again until they stop filing police reports against their customers. Maybe they could add a no-arrest protection as an elite benefit. They could even give it a cute name and register it as a TM, like “The Hertz No Arrest Elite Guarantee.” Of course, OJ Simpson would be the spokesperson.
@Gene wins the internet today.
Go, OJ! Go!
Not a surprise with most hotel ocleaning standards
The green movement of not washing towels and linens between guests if they look clean enough was a horrible idea.far worse sanitary wise then will mounted toiletries
Have a non sexual family member that caught scabies from a new 4 star Hilton Clearly from comforter sheets and or towels
With Monkey pox now it’s far more concerning
@Gene – LOL. Nice one.
1. Gary, thanks for pushing hard on this Hertz problem of getting their customers arrested. I can’t believe this isn’t more mainstream. United breaks one guitar and “United Breaks Guitars” – or one guy (Dao) gets beaten and dragged and the whole industry moves to $10k involuntary denied boardings. Hertz? Best we get is the CEO sheepishly admitting to the situation.
2. Hotels are dirty, we’ve known this long before covid. Housekeepers are given very little time to clean each room. Even when they change the sheets, they’re using dirty hands that have just been wiping the toilet. This is true everywhere except the extreme top end – Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, etc.
Bottom line? Stay with friends when you travel. Friends you trust, obviously, and give them a lavish gift — still cheaper than a hotel room these days. I’d rather sleep on a decently maintained couch than a hotel where (I think an investigation once revealed) the average comforter is stained with the … uhhhh … DNA of at least 30 men.
I get a good corporate rate on Hertz for personal rentals, so continue to use them. Unfortunately, I got my status with them via United, and that expired last year, even if they extended my status one year, it will likely end this year.