Jewish Guests Say Marriott Employee Left ‘Free Palestine’ Note In Their Room On Yom Kippur [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb:

  • There’s never an excuse for violating a guest’s room with a political message of any kind. There should be a key log and surveillance video showing who did this. And Marriott can’t just shrug and point out that they don’t actually own or operate most hotels.

  • I absolutely hate United’s boarding. If you’re not a 1K or above, you need to queue up at the gate super early, or else you risk not getting overhead bin space (or at least bin space anywhere near your seat). That goes for first class Premier Platinums. American’s boarding process is much more civilized. (I don’t like American’s earlier start to boarding but they’re just matching others here, giving up a customer service advantage they had.)

    Now if only American cleaned their planes…

  • Uber has more points than I do. That’s a lot of points!

    Uber has 51 million ABC Liquor points this year
    byu/TonedBioelectricity inmildlyinteresting

  • Denver airport now lists an Arrivals Lounge as part of its new Great Hall (“M3L5W1 Arrivals Lounge – Concession RFP”). That decodes as Module 3 · Level 5 · West side · bay 1. This is almost certainly landside in the Level 5 West footprint, adjacent to the landside arrivals program (meeters/greeters, baggage claim level). Expect this to be timed for ~ 2028. It’s likely not an airline (United) project because it’s programmed as a concession rather than an airline lease.

  • How hawker signboards tell the story of Singapore (HT: Marginal Revolution)

  • Spending a day at SFO without flying

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Comments

  1. I will disagree re United’s boarding practice. As a 1K and Lifetime EXP I get to pre-board on United but not on AA. I generally find the United pre-board queue orderly and compliant.

  2. Leftists sure are strangely in love with a group of people that murdered 1300 civilians unprovoked, including women and infants, took hostage hundreds more(still), and have a culture that isn’t exactly woman, gay or trans friendly, not to mention anyone that isn’t Muslim. Strange bedfellows indeed.

    There’s a tiny sliver of land in the middle east that is a democracy, and not Islamic, and you want to destroy it? You’re being used. I challenge any of these “free Palestine” activists to go live a few months in the totalitarian, fundamentalist Islamic society you are advocating for.

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