Here’s what you get for spending $23,000 a year at Marriott hotels, in addition to benefits like occasional room upgrades and continental breakfast. The hotel chain has sent out end of year holiday gifts, and a reader shares that they received a lego puzzle set of a Marriott Design Hotels property in Iceland.
This new Taittinger partnership hasn’t been officially announced yet, but it seems to be rolling out, and it’s even being highlighted by the airline in its social. That’s about a $45 retail bottle, which is more than respectable for U.S. airline business class.
Capital One is offering up to 56,000 miles for signing up with Yieldstreet via Capital One Offers. The real value here is you need to open an account, but it doesn’t look like you need to fund the account or invest.
A passenger on a delayed Delta flight got himself stuck in the plane’s lavatory shortly after takeoff. He managed to get “locked in there somehow” and couldn’t figure out how to get out. The lock was sticking, several flight attendants couldn’t free him, and finally “one of the pilots..got the job done with a butter knife.”
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Despite making the booking directly with Marriott, submitting credit card information to guarantee the reservation, and receiving a confirmation email, the hotel reached out to demand separate payment. And it sure looks like phishing or a scam, like someone had gotten hold of new bookings and was trying to steal money.
At the beginning of the year, Trump-aligned American First Legal complained to the Department of Labor that American Airlines, Southwest Airlines, and United Airlines were using employment quotes that are illegal as government contractors.
As a result of these complaints, Southwest Airlines now says that they will not discriminate in hiring and promotion.
American Airlines plans to ask the FAA to certify their new Boeing 787-9P with one fewer flight attendant, but has told their union this is just so they could operate the plane that way if they had to – it’s not how they’re going to schedule the aircraft (although I wonder if they would on any domestic or short-haul international segments the plane operates).
A year ago Hyatt started testing online redemption of suite upgrades. That feature is now live, and it works for both suite upgrades and club access awards, through both the Hyatt.com website and through the Hyatt mobile app as part of the booking process.
A year and a half ago President Biden announced new rules coming to require airlines to pay cash compensation for flight delays and cancellations. Think of it as the U.S.’s answer to Europe’s ‘EU261’ compensation.
They didn’t actually do anything with this while they still could. Their new proposal isn’t yet fully baked, and likely won’t advance farther.
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