Ex-Hooters OYO Las Vegas Lists $1 Rooms Across Multiple Room Types — Resort Fee Adds $50.96

by Gary Leff

Dec 17 2025

OYO Las Vegas (the former Hooters) is advertising $1 rooms Monday through Wednesday with promo code ONEDOLLAR — across everything from basic kings to strip-view and pool-view rooms. But the fine print says you still owe a $50.96 resort fee (with tax) at check-in, and it isn’t included in the headline price quote.

It’s a cheap play for a worn, uneven hotel, but it also looks like exactly the kind of resort-fee advertising the FTC has been targeting—especially as Vegas demand softens and the bottom end of the market gets squeezed.

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Passenger Films Flight Attendant Leaving The Lavatory — Then A Pilot Walks Out Looking Caught

by Gary Leff

Dec 16 2025

A widely shared video shows a flight attendant stepping out of an airplane lavatory looking awkward and adjusting her uniform. Moments later, a pilot exits the same lavatory with a similarly “caught” expression — and the passenger filming just happens to have the camera perfectly framed on the door the whole time, which is why this looks more staged to me than an accidental leak.

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Passengers Are Using A Deceptive Trick To Beat Airport Bag Scales — And Avoid Overweight Fees

by Gary Leff

Dec 16 2025

Airlines enforce the 50-pound limit with baggage scales that aren’t always perfectly calibrated—so some passengers have started “helping” the reading by quietly supporting one side of the suitcase with a foot while it’s being weighed. The number drops because part of the bag’s weight transfers off the scale, and influencers even promote it as a tip. It’s also fraud, and agents say they see (and cringe at) it all the time.

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Denver City Council Blocks Airport Lease To Punish ICE Deportation Flights — Now Trump Administration Can Pull Federal Funding

by Gary Leff

Dec 16 2025

Denver’s city council just voted to deny an airport lease because it didn’t like the airline’s ICE deportation work — a move that looks like unjust discrimination under the FAA grant assurances tied to federal airport funding. The vote doesn’t kick the carrier out, but it creates an obvious opening for the Trump administration to intervene through the FAA compliance process and put Denver’s federal money at risk.

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South Korea President Orders Seoul’s Main Airport to Search Every Book for Hidden Cash — CEO Says It Would Paralyze Travel [Roundup]

by Gary Leff

Dec 16 2025

News and notes from around the interweb: The President of South Korea is demanding that all bags get manually searched at Seoul Incheon airport because people might hide money in books, and apparently the small amounts of cash that could be involved are a government priority or something? This would melt down air travel, and be really bad prioritization – you do risk-based searches not blanket ones because focusing on small bills in books distracts from real security and customs interdiction. Such a strange demand. President Lee ordered to “look through all the books” in response to President Lee’s reply, “You can check if 100 bills are overlapped, but it is a little difficult to find them with the current technology if they are inserted like bookmarks one by one.” In addition, he said, “People…

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Two Kids Dressed As Dinosaurs To Surprise Grandma At The Airport — But She Arrived In A T-Rex Costume Too

by Gary Leff

Dec 15 2025

Two boys plotted an airport dinosaur surprise for their grandma, practicing their roars and waiting in costume for her to walk out of arrivals. But when the sliding doors finally opened, grandma emerged in a T-Rex outfit herself — wearing the exact same costume she once used to scare them, and completely stealing their moment.

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