News and notes from around the interweb:
- Is awarding only 50% elite nights at Protea Hotels the most Marriott Bonvoy thing ever? And doesn’t carving out a single brand for reduced status-earning overcomplicate a program where no one can remember all the brands, let alone what they stand for, as it is? Surely the juice can’t be worth the squeeze here, can it?
- Dad jokes.
We've been waiting for over a half hour for @SouthwestAir to depart from the runway in Chicago. They claim, it is taking a while to get bags on the airplane. The flight attendants are trying to entertain us with dad jokes. pic.twitter.com/v8hGOCtK3N
— Mike Griffin (@votegriffin) January 31, 2023
- Lufthansa Detroit – Europe awards 55,000 miles roundtrip in business class
- These were for sale, I only wished I had a vision for how they’d fit in my home.
People steal blankets off planes but I took the whole cabin from an @AmericanAir 767 pic.twitter.com/NNGq6up4EP
— Tahsir Ahsan (@TahsirAhsan) February 1, 2023
- Personal finance advice: Fly Spirit. Wear fake jewelry.
.@ochocinco saved 83% of his salary by flying Spirit & wearing fake jewelry pic.twitter.com/RMC7AYPREa
— shannon sharpe (@ShannonSharpe) January 31, 2023
- You have a choice whether or not to fly Southwest Airlines again. You don’t have a choice whether to use the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization. Which one do you think will improve?
- Not really travel, but still.
That’s one way to make a brand stand out. Bonvoy !
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85 + 1
But I do prefer award business on flights over 5 hours. That’s why I’m here.
MR already does half points on a couple brands so no, this doesn’t surprise me. I have avoided a lot of nice RIs for paid stays just on principle.
Was the monster truck ride sponsored by Marriott Bonvoy? The video was too funny to not include. Great work Gary.
Let me fix the content error for you:
You mostly don’t have a choice whether or not to fly Southwest Airlines again (it’s the only choice in many routes!). You have a vote on whether to improve the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization. Which one do you think will improve?