News and notes from around the interweb:
- Marriott presentation on hotel rooms booked on points or at cheap corporate rates being resold at a profit one customer they intend to offer a discount to extends that discount to someone else at a profit, from the hotel’s perspective that means selling inventory for less money while some of the profit on their product goes to someone else.
Marriott lays out the ways a hotel can see if it’s happening, especially adding second guest names to rooms. The focus here is China, because that is where the greatest volume of fraud is.
- Expats look to Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City rather than Singapore as cost of living rises Singapore benefits from Hong Kong’s decline.
- DoD suddenly abandons $374 million plan to replace Defense Travel System (HT: @nick_roosevelt)
- Don’t do it bro
- How did I not know about this Sim Center arcade in Tampa? (HT: @crucker)
- I just keep seeing broken Delta seats (and seat back screens) in my social media feed in a way that I never used to.
@Delta real “premium” product that’s broken pic.twitter.com/GbUElgsJp1
— Austin (@atyppo) June 6, 2023
@Delta any compensation for a broken screen on my super old plane to LAX the other day? Flight DL1471 sear 13D on June 1st, 2023. pic.twitter.com/MseVMSSMk1
— Matt Armstrong (@armstrongma88) June 5, 2023
Delta tech ops seems to be not what it once was. I’ve seen more duct tape in cabins as well as had more ASU engine gate starts (and delays associated with them) on recent flights. Is there a fundamental change or is this just small sample size?
The Marriott link appears to be broken
The Marriott link is dead
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/marriott-marriott-bonvoy/2124081-marriott-s-latest-measures-against-unauthorized-hotel-room-resales-china.html