News and notes from around the interweb:
- Professional bull rider has his bag stolen from the Corpus Christi Holiday Inn
- Not travel: don’t forget that even if you take the standard deduction you can still take up to a $300 charitable deduction this year so consider a year-end gift to charity. (And those who do itemize can deduct up to 100% of their adjusted gross income in the current year, rather than facing the usual limits.)
- Two Travel Giants Raised $4 Billion to Ride Out the Pandemic. Only One Needed It. Booking.com mostly takes reservations and earns commission, while Expedia’s business model is focused more on prepaid hotels. They take your money and needed to raise debt to support refunds. In other words they’re selling hotels and normally hold cash for around 50 days. In the meantime they’re spending the money and selling more hotel bookings. Some might even call Expedia a ponzi scheme?
Expedia Dancers Take Money From New Reservations To Pay Hotels For Earlier Bookings? Flickr: Juggernautco - Singapore Airlines new short haul economy meals
- Etihad pilots have to move into company-provided housing instead of having their rent covered elsewhere with all of Etihad’s layoffs, they have excess housing they’re already paying for.
- Just watch.
A helicopter photo flight over Mohave Air and Space Port. #boneyard #boeing #aviation #aviationlover #aviationphotography #avgeek #boeing747 #aerialphotography pic.twitter.com/Tm0ePYRwCW
— Ryan Patterson (@diecastryan) November 21, 2020
Gary,
Expedia sucks nowadays in getting refunds.
Hard to contact them via phone and they do not give a timeframe for the refund to happen.
I already disputed their charges with the credit card companies only to be rebuffed.
I wrote to the consumer protection agency and was not sucessful as well.
Any other measures you can suggest?
Michael
I’ve had to cancel hotel bookings with Hotels.com (owned by Expedia). The hotels themselves consented but since I booked through Expedia, I never got the refund.
That food looks first class compared to that which I was served in BA F a couple of weeks ago.
hotels.com was my go to place for cheap and quick bookings, but at the beginning of the pandemic i had to cancel one reservation ok’d by the hotel itself and have been given the run around for a refund/credit since, despite them looking into it (this has been eight months now, and it’s not like they are busy)…and the thing is that it is only for 60 dollars…
i had to go for work last week and used booking.com instead. easy breezy, thanks! hotels.com, you lost a loyal customer over chump change!
I got my refunds from expedia every time, sure it takes some time but never failed…this guy sucks may be got paid from rival company
Also expedia is local to usa and booking is british…keeping money local will help americans