News and notes from around the interweb:
- The bot that tracks Elon Musk’s jet is still active (despite a cash offer to take it down) while its creator no longer tracks Mark Cuban’s plane because Cuban offered friendship, business advice and to meet at a Dallas Mavericks game next season.
- The new British Airways first class food still looks like a good business class product to me.
- Win concert tickets, flights, hotels and limo for you and 3 friends with Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle you’re darned right I entered this sweepstakes (but would probably pass on the Frontier flights, no wifi, natch).
- Marriott’s big pivot from food service to hotels. (HT: @JackHake) Meanwhile here’s the history of Hertz.
- Germany to extend air travel mask mandate to April 2023
- Marriott Bonvoy rule changes.
Interesting to see @Marriott recognize the "Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic" – both Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine – if even to say that residents can't be members of @MarriottBonvoy.
Still allowed in the Bonvoy program: Russians pic.twitter.com/O9vtvQ5DOd
— JT Genter (@JTGenter) August 3, 2022
- Don’t bring pot through TSA in Texas
- Those new United Airlines domestic interiors can’t come soon enough.
@united this is what you get paying extra for first class? The plane is falling apart. pic.twitter.com/StoFmvfEMh
— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) August 3, 2022
The Marriott family started out on the east coast selling ice cream. Then they moved west and then they diversified into other food lines.
Marriott never met a dictatorship they didn’t like.
BA First is solidly middle of the pack for Transatlantic onboard food/beverage – below AF/LX, at or above LH if you value things beyond caviar.
I think they do a better job in terms of quality of food and wine in First than Lufthansa, even with the less ambitious catering of the last year on BA. Yes there’s the caviar on LH, but outside that the mains and apps are good biz class grade.
Clearly lounge/ground handling wise it’s beat by a mile by LH/LX and AF.
F*ck Ukraine. The Donbass left you!