News and notes from around the interweb:
- Emirates opens Moët & Chandon business class champagne lounge in Dubai
- American Airlines cancelling its codeshare agreement with airberlin
- The British Airways social media team told customers to fly Virgin Atlantic by mistake
- HNA Group, parent of Hainan Airlines among others and that’s buying Carlson hotels, has taken a 25% stake in Hilton. They’ll be the largest, though non-majority, shareholder as this reduces Blackstone’s holdings to 21%.
- How tourists in Thailand should behave during the mourning period for the loss of the Thai King.
- Park Hyatt will be returning to Los Angeles (WSJ) I remember when the Intercontinental Los Angeles was a Park Hyatt, and for that matter when the Le Meridien San Francisco was a Park Hyatt.
Hyatt Hotels Corp. has cut a deal to place a luxury Park Hyatt hotel in the $1 billion mixed-use project being developed in downtown Los Angeles by Chinese conglomerate Oceanwide Holdings, the companies said.
The deal marks the latest step in Beijing-based Oceanwide’s first U.S. project, which is scheduled to open in early 2019 and includes 504 condominium units, a 166,000-square-foot galleria and a 700-foot-tall LED display.
- Man reclaiming the armrest. (HT: Paul H.)
Way for the armrest reclaimer to do something even more rude than the armrest hog.
If the guy next to him was in a bad mood and had time on his hands there’s a case for assault.
It is not fair to publish this video to the public without the consent of the “armrest hog”. If someone shoved me hard like that I’d give him the same look. While it might be technically legal, I’d expect what happens at my seat to not become a public spectacle **captured by a ‘hidden camera’**. Two wrongs don’t make a right. Gary should take this video down and not further encourage this type filming and aggressive behavior.
Great news on the Park Hyatt Los Angeles
Let’s just hope that the management and business culture isn’t the poison found at Park Hyatt New York the only Park Hyatt that has poisoned the otherwise high end luxury brand treating customers like crap even top elites
We will never go back
Even the former Hyatt Regency Century Plaza was a jewel despite its aging condition
Rumours has it the rebuilt hotel will be a Fairmont when it reopens