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.
Aventura, FL – Jewish guests at the AC Hotel by Marriott Aventura report that a hotel employee violated their belongings on Yom Kippur, leaving behind a “Free Palestine” post-it note.
The guests have filed a complaint with Marriott corporate and are demanding that all CCTV… pic.twitter.com/HoKhmUVh7L
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 4, 2025
- 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.)
@United I love & swear by your airline
but #preboarding is getting out of control.
it’s a issue if a suitcase is a couple lbs over 50 but today on UA370 out of MCO – two over 250lbs people can board before veterans, United crew members, and first class because they have a child? pic.twitter.com/gnthBxfGHD— michael (@mikeymangin) October 4, 2025
Now if only American cleaned their planes…
@AmericanAir hey American, why are somebody’s dirty socks greeting me on the plane this evening? I think @Delta’s status match challenge is looking pretty darn good right now… pic.twitter.com/o1g3QUGQDt
— Deborah Hurwitz (@MaestraHurwitz) October 4, 2025
- 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
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.
@Solucia – as I wrote, United 1Ks have good boarding experiences – everyone else does not.
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.