News and notes from around the interweb:
- It isn’t just the Berkeley student who commuted on Southwest and Alaska. This isn’t common, but flying to class to save on rent isn’t a one-off either!
A student from Canada gets to his studies by airplane to avoid rent pic.twitter.com/HsnuqGmnyx
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) February 21, 2024
- Interview with Bilt’s head of loyalty, Dave Canty on his journey from Sheraton to Starwood Preferred Guest to AutoZone to JetBlue and then IHG.
- ‘I noticed you didn’t leave a tip’: Customer gets shamed by worker for not tipping on pizza pickup order No! You do not tip when picking up an order to go.
- While Durbin-Marshall (“Credit Card Competition Act”) focuses on just Visa and Mastercard, and how to diminish their market share, new payment networks are working to simply route around them.
- Aman’s CEO on growth plans (Skift)
- Hyatt’s Destination Residences redemptions are no longer part of the award chart, instead are part of their new ‘Homes & Hideaways’ platform at fixed value of 1.2 cents a point which is a sad devalation.
- What Americans need to understand about Brazil:
Extremely Accurate Map of Brazil (for gringos) pic.twitter.com/YyOFAmU7qp
— Epic Maps ️ (@Locati0ns) February 20, 2024
Canada is a huge nation with almost no affordable city to live in thanks to disastrous policies.
I would worry about the staff messing with the pizza after that. Maybe a good question to ask would be what discounts can you give me today? This would add a service to the order, so a 20% discount could be good for at least a 15% tip. Why pay the same price plus tip for a pizza when you spent your money for gas and your car and your time to go get it?
I was wondering when Hyatt would start to devalue ahh enhance their loyalty program.
@JohnnieD:
I won’t say this is the first time that I’ve noticed said brand (though I mostly ignored it), but on some level I was actually wondering why they bothered with it. I don’t park my business at Hyatt because I want to deal with a random self-catering home.
At least for me, this is no great loss and I wouldn’t notice if Hyatt just dumped it.
Knew a young lady living in Tokyo who commuted to Alaska to take flying lessons. Total cost was less than flying in Japan.
“GRINGOS”?!?! That’s racist!