News and notes from around the interweb:
- Hyatt announced that their peak/off-peak award pricing devaluation would happen in “mid-October for stays in March 2022 onward.” It’s now… mid-October. And Hyatt tells me,
[T]his is still scheduled for October to see off-peak and peak pricing for stays in March 2022 and beyond.
More to come very soon!
- Port Authority of New York New Jersey ‘hits the brakes’ on the LaGuardia AirTrain to nowhere. This was Andrew Cuomo’s white elephant, and they chose a circuitous route rather than single train service to the city because it was the politically feasible, fastest path to approval, not because it was a good idea. Now they’re re-thinking it. The challenge will be avoiding just concluding it’s all they can do and moving forward anyway.
- United bonusing all active employees $1000
- The Air New Zealand Boeing 787 vaccine clinic
- A federal judge halted United’s plan to put unvaccinated workers with an exemption (religious, medical) on unpaid leave.
Obviously you know very little about Queens. The path picked was the easiest to construct utilizing the LIRR station at Willets Point to help connect Long Island. Ideally it would go through Astoria, but it would be much more challenging and costly to build and the local neighborhood rejected that idea.
As an outer borough resident, for once a decision was made that didn’t revolve around Manhattan, and I’m sad to see this development stalled.
Subtext: If you were thinking of applying for the new Hyatt card because of the bonus, its less of a good deal than it seems. See also Citi AA Cards. The deals can only “improve” as the mileage currencies are debased – wait.
@Pete
The problem is that if you’re going to spend $2 billion on a few miles of rail (up from the original lie of $500 million) it should at least aim to help the most people. Sending the AirTrain away from Manhattan, making a very difficult connection with poor headways to the already-overcrowded 7 train, is a big waste of money, and much inferior to expanding currently existing express bus service, or working towards an N/W train extension.
There’s a huge opportunity cost to proceeding on Cuomo’s pet plan- there are much better ways to spend $2 billion on improving transit.