Qatar Airways has a new interactive ad, where you can put yourself in a promotional film using AI. You upload your photo, and get inserted into a romantic travel adventure.
Iconic Brown Palace Marriott Plunges Into Chaos: Fentanyl, Homeless, And Disruptive Drunks Overrun Denver Landmark
Management dropped rates below $100 on some nights – but that attracted a different clientele, “a rise in drunken and disruptive guests.” With reduced revenue, the management company HEI pushed out long-time employees who delivered the high quality service the property was known for. Then “[m]ore homeless people entered the hotel and fentanyl contamination showed up in lobby bathrooms.”
The property blames the pandemic for reduced staffing in 2024. Remaining employees have been told they “no longer work for a hospitality company” but “for a real estate company” instead.
A Tampon at the Border: A Tourist’s Harrowing Encounter with Privacy Invasion [Roundup]
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Why American Airlines Is The Worst Choice For 2024: You’re Most Likely To Lose Your Bags Or Get Bumped
If passengers are getting delayed, cancelled, and diverted – and if their bags are lost, or they’re turned away from flying completely despite having a ticket – it’s probably happening on American Airlines, according to Department of Transportation data.
The Viral ‘Airport Tray Aesthetic’ Trend: Gen Z Turns TSA Bins Into Fashion Statements (It’s Driving Travelers Crazy)
The airport security checkpoint is now the stage for a viral social media trend: the “airport tray aesthetic.” Passengers curate and photograph the contents of their TSA bins.
Magic Kingdom or Gilded Cage? Are Disney’s Ballooning Prices Driving Guests Away? [Roundup]
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14 Hours Of Screaming Birds In Business Class—Unbelievable Qatar Airways Nightmare
A passenger wants to know what sort of compensation they should receive after buying a full fare business class ticket to travel Qatar Airways from Miami to Doha, experiencing a lovely flight in most ways, but finding their rest disturbed by “exotic birds being transported in cargo directed below us.”
JetBlue Fires Seat Back Map Vendor For Obliterating Israel
JetBlue’s seat back entertainment map now calls much of Israel “Palestinian Territories. It does so in “significantly larger text” than Israel “to the point where it is overlaid on the entire state of Israel.”
Shocking: FAA Still Using ’80s Paper Strips To Control the Skies—And It Won’t Change Until 2030s
Meanwhile, all of Nav Canada facilities went electronic 15 years ago (and all control towers and TRACONs even earlier). Their solution is used in Australia, Italy, the U.K. and Dubai. We could license the Canadian solution, or other commercial ones, but instead the FAA has been working contracting for their own solution since three years before the Beastie Boys were fighting for your right to party.
Still Requiring Vaccination in 2024—Is This Hotel Really ‘Following the Science’?
This isn’t just an old note, like the stickers you still see in some hotels saying that vaccinated guests don’t have to mask or occupancy limits on elevators, with markings on the ground showing where you should stand distanced from other guests. This is marked as “2024-5.”