News and notes from around the interweb:
- Rolls Royce stolen from the valet at Hyatt’s Thompson Atlanta Buckhead if they were Globalists staying on points, at least they wouldn’t have had the pay the valet charges.
A man stole a $400,000 Rolls-Royce in a matter of seconds at a popular Buckhead hotel. A Valet was seen giving keys to unknown man pic.twitter.com/zfdIiQRm5m
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- Massive airline lobbying campaign got 57 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives to ask the TSA to stop competitor JSX from providing a better product to passengers. (HT: @crucker)
- Weird. Alaska Airlines reschedules Baltimore to Seattle passenger to depart from Los Angeles. (HT: Paul H)
@neonsophia They are trying their best, though I find this funny #greenscreen #alaskaairlines ♬ original sound – Sophia - Lufthansa Flight Attendants Annoyed, Want Special Meals To Cost Extra
- Southwest is dropping LA – Maui and reducing other Maui frequencies Maui’s troubles continue.
Lufthansa must not handle special meals very well. I just returned from Singapore and Singapore Airlines promotes special meals through their “book the cook” feature which I took advantage of.
A flight attendant confirmed my choices shortly after take off then when the meals were delivered I noticed everything had a sticker with my seat number so these were already assembled which obviously made it easier on the FAs. Totally seamless and didn’t seem to impact overall service. BTW this was in Premium Economy not even business.
Of course Singapore Airline has a great ratio of FAs to passengers and everyone of them I interacted with was proactive and very service oriented. God I’m going to miss that attitude now back in the US (about to get on AA JFK-CLT for example which will serve as a dramatic comparison in overall service)
Incongruous pairing : Rolls Royce and Valet . Similar to vintage wine and a hamburger .
The valet story is interesting and sloppy. Reading the report it first identifies the couple’s vehicle as a Roll-Royce, but then later says it is a Bentley. These two marques have not been commonly owned for years
I always leave an AirTag in my Rolls for just such situations.
Pay $400K for a ‘truck’, then give the keys to some guy at a hotel? You can’t fix stupid.
@jsn – Where exactly would you park such a car? On the street? A municipal garage?
Good thing I don’t have a Rolls Royce
About 15 years ago I used to frequent a night club in north Scottsdale and got to know one of the GMs. He said one evening he was outside and some guy in a luxury sports car (Porsche? Ferrari? can’t remember) pulled up and assumed he was the valet and tossed him the keys and went into the club.
The GM said he decided to take it for a ride to his house and showed his wife the car before coming back home. Not sure if that was true but you need to be careful who you give your car keys to and who knows what stuff valets may do with your car.
Old story. Someone goes to an oft frequenter restaurant. A young man helps the driver out of the vehicle. Driver leves keys in the car, walks in, says to the manager “impressive valet service you have now.” Manager replies: “ we don’t have valet service.”
It is a wonder that cars that expensive don’t have a disabler if the vehicle is out of touch with the owner or too far away. This vehicle was supposedly recovered in Houston months later.