News and notes from around the interweb:
- A $50 ‘tourism license’ that passed Hawaii’s state senate failed to reach agreement on details in the lower house
- American Airlines Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja is heading the search for a new leader for the oneworld alliance. The current alliance head leaves at the end of June. oneworld has moved into American’s Dallas headquarters.
- Truth is it’s the quality as much as if not more than the price. How airports are run dictates a near-universal truth that dining establishments will be bad but I presume it’s the concessionaire that’s primarily at fault here for the lazy coffee making process (and ultimately the Port Authority selecting and overseeing the concessionaire).
Ah, @JFKairport T7. Where the two crappy coffee places charge 11 (!!!) for a BEC/SEC and the “cold brew” coffee is hot coffee poured over ice.@PANYNJ find me a comparable coffee shop anywhere in NYC that charges even half for this garbage. Do your job and regulate this!!! pic.twitter.com/jmFJjSPAst
— Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) May 4, 2023
- She was probably mad at discovering how much the beers cost with the vendor violating airport authority street pricing rules? (HT: C Boarding Group)
Arrested at Newark Airport for threatening to kill bartender and throwing a glass
by u/masssshole in PublicFreakout - Matt Yglesias offers positive coverage of my Discouse magazine piece on how to make air travel better.
- Choice Hotels loses its Nordic properties May 22 when Nordic Choice becomes Strawberry. Those were certainly nice hotels relative to their brand-cousins in the States.
- Wyndham Platinum status after one night
$5.99 for a warm, frothy, large non-organic, and non-ecofriendly crappuccino in New York City is not a fantastic JFK airport value.
@Gary – Interesting article, although you’ve certainly covered the subjects thoroughly in your blog. I’m curious as to why you think that privatizing airports is a good idea. I think it’s a lousy idea because the yearning for profit will overcome customer-friendly items such as moving walkways as I believe you’ve noted as well. Do you really think that LHR, as a privately owned concern, is so well run and is so cost-friendly to passengers that we should emulate that elsewhere?
Does Choice Hotels lose its affiliation with Nordic Choice’s hotels with the latter’s transition to Strawberry? I haven’t seen a big clearing out of the Clarion, Comfort and Quality names at Scandinavian Choice hotels and it’s only about 15 days until the Nordic Choice Hotels becomes Strawberry.