Points are the great equalizer in travel, giving the proletariat access to luxury accommodations previously reserved for the bourgeoisie. Yet The Socialist hotel in Copenhagen will not be honoring Marriott Bonvoy points reservations. Guests are being moved to the far less interesting Copenhagen Marriott.
It’s been broadly covered that the FAA is stepping up inspections of United’s operation. United itself shared this with its employees, and made its employee note public. However the FAAs involvement is far greater than has been revealed publicly.
Southwest Airlines doesn’t run any redeye flights but their CEO teased that they were coming back in the fall. There’s now a timeline for when we’ll see redeye flights from Southwest.
Without a vision for higher value work to be insourced from other airlines, there’s just not going to be as much high value work to do and legacy airline mechanics are too expensive for the lower value work. These broad trends almost ensure conflict between American Airlines and its mechanics union once negotiations begin in earnest.
Hyatt is offering double elite nights at two of its brands – Dream Hotels and Thompson Hotels – for stays completed between March 22, 2024, and June 10, 2024. Registration required by May 22.
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It’s possible to open over 3 million hotel doors worldwide with just two taps. One of the people that figured out how to do it is the founder of airline award search tool Seats.aero.
Two years ago a group was invited to hack a brand of hotel door lock in Las Vegas. What one team found was flaws in the RFID-based keycard locks by Dormakaba, a leading Swiss lock manufacturer. This vulnerability affects Saflok systems installed in doors across 131 countries. There’s a fix rolling out, but it’ll take months or even years to be in place worldwide.
Legislators in Tennessee are convinced that contrails are really government weather control experiments, or targeting of civilians with poison – and the state’s senate has passed legislation to ban “chemtrails” within the state’s borders.
Chemtrails is a conspiracy theory that the trails left by aircraft are chemical or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes for nefarious and secret purposes.
Prior to departure of an American Airlines flight from Tampa to Philadelphia, a passenger gets into an altercation and calls a flight attendant a “kike” but I don’t think he knows what that means.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is launching a comprehensive review of the top U.S. airlines’ privacy practices concerning passenger data, focusing on potential unethical monetization and data sharing with third parties, in an effort led by Secretary Buttigieg and influenced by Senator Wyden’s advocacy for stricter privacy protections.
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