News and notes from around the interweb:

• New AI hotel accounted for Las Vegas

  “This is the first truly AI-powered hotel,” said Ziade. “The whole floor is interconnected.” …The entire focus at the hotel is capturing and leveraging data.

  “We create a virtual copy of the guest,” said Ziade. “There is an onboarding before coming to the hotel. We capture information and use AI to scrape the internet and then we track behavior while on property.”

  Each guest would have a virtual assistant, which would track and retain that guest’s preferences, which could then be used for subsequent hotel stays.

• Great news, the on-airport Novotel Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport becomes a Hyatt Regency February 1

• Delta flight attendants now permitted to wear earbud while walking through airport

  “To complement our existing policy of earbuds being permitted for use while commuting to/from work, a single wireless earbud may be used while in the airport.”

  Flight attendants have, however, been warned not to use their earbuds to “walk and talk.”

  “The earbud should promptly be removed and disengaged when approached by a customer or colleague,” the memo continued. “It is important to be mindful of your surroundings, remain available while in uniform, and always be welcoming to our customers and other employees.”

• New Hawaiian Airlines premium lounge opening in Honolulu in 2027

  

• Way to go FAA “whistleblowers’ identities sometimes are leaked to the people they’re complaining about” is just what you want to read about a safety agency.

• Wife of credit card recommendation engine site banned from Lyft for reporting driver with bumper sticker showing Palestine ‘from the river to the sea,’ eliminating Israel. I don’t understand how Americans ignore that Hamas continues to hold other Americans hostage.

  “In the car ride, the hostages came up in conversation, and I grew more and more uncomfortable. Our driver had a bumper sticker rooting for people to kill us (we’re all Jewish and my wife’s Israeli), and literally had our lives in his hand, so clearly we didn’t feel so safe,” Book said in the post.

  Book said he had his wife report what happened to Lyft over the phone. He also shared a screenshot of a separate email from Lyft’s customer service that said his wife’s account was “deactivated due to alleged safety violations on the Lyft platform.”

• Hotel wants you to be your own housekeeper?

  Dirty Jobs?
  byu/Katatonicai inHilton

• Serving a subpoena in the Atlanta airport