Airlines around the world are cancelling flights in and out of Tel Aviv. Hamas has declared Ben Gurion airport a target for their attacks.
Normally about 37,000 passengers fly into the airport per day according to data from Cirium’s Diio Mi. The U.S. sends the most passengers.
A guest booked Marriott’s Hotel La Semilla and wound up getting solicited by the hotel to prepay their reservation via Paypal for a discount. Only the hotel later claimed to have no record of the payment. Did an employee of the hotel scam them? And is this something new to watch out for when you travel?
The Army-Navy game will be held December 9 at Gillette Stadium – the first time in its 133 year history that it will be held in the Northeast. And people that have booked rooms for it are seeing their reservations cancelled.
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Hamas has announced Tel Aviv airport as an attack target. This continues the effort to directly target civilian non-combatants. After attacking a music concert for peace, and raiding homes and killing some while abducting others for use as human shields, they continue to literally target peace for attack.
Legendary Silicon Valley investor Bill Gurley (GrubHub, Nextdoor, Open Table, Stitch Fix, Zillow, Nordstrom.com, The Knot and Uber, and played by Kyle Chandler in Showtime’s Super Pumped) gave a talk recently about regulatory capture – that government regulation almost always benefits incumbent businesses. It’s a great talk in its own right, but also perfectly encapsulates what’s happening to upstarts like JSX.
American Airlines advertises meals as one of the benefits of first class travel. Specifically, “Meal service on flights over 900 miles during meal times.” They say they are “elevating your dining experience” and that meals in premium cabins “are healthy, delicious” – so it’s not just food, it’s good food that’s good for you, too. Of course airlines advertise one thing to convince you to buy a ticket, and to spend more. And they deliver something else. One of the most common occurrences is advertising their most comfortable seats to get you to spend more to upgrade from coach to first class, and then delivering something entirely different. For instance this was a pitch to upgrade to first class on a standard domestic Airbus A321. They show you that you’re getting their lie flat seat…
California’s Governor signed SB 478 on Saturday. It bans hidden fees, though airlines and car rentals are excluded from the ban. That leaves hotels as the major offender in the travel space which will feel the brunt of the impact – and online travel agencies which sell hotel rooms, too.
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Hamas gone to war, sending thousands of rockets into Israel. They’ve kidnapped Israelis and brought them into Gaza for use as human shields – including some as young as 10 and other reports of younger still. The photos they’ve promoted show the children having been beaten.
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