Truth About Hyatt’s New 15% Discount Rate

May 19 2018

Hotel chains want you to book directly through them because it costs them less to make a reservation themselves than it does to pay a commission to Expedia or other online travel sites (or travel agents).

Hyatt has a new attempt at this you need to know about — a 15% discount — but beware.

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Did American Airlines Hint They Could Be Leaving the New York – London Market?

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May 19 2018

A couple of days ago I wrote about American President Robert Isom’s comments in an off the record employee Q&A about New York JFK. He talked about the challenges of being in a different terminal from their transatlantic joint venture partner British Airways at both New York JFK and London Heathrow.

Together they’re running what they consider to be a New York – London shuttle, but it’s not convenient because it’s a split operation, and he hints that they may have a solution to that.

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Commercial Plane Crash in Cuba

May 18 2018

Cubana flight CU972 was carrying 104 passengers today enroute from Havana to Holguin, Cuba when it crashed not long after takeoff.

The plane reportedly went down “near a motorway and a high school in the Boyeros neighborhood” next to the airport.

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