News and notes from around the interweb:
- The San Francisco Centurion lounge has apparently been doing this on Thursdays (starting at 3 p.m.):
- Hilton’s Graduate Hotel on Roosevelt Island Cornell Tech Campus is shutting down Monday. One reader had 20 families members booked there over Thanksgiving, but the hotel will not be operating.
- Homeowner rewards Made Card raised an $8 million seed round. It is “the first product to reward homeowners for making on-time mortgage payments and ties those rewards directly to their mortgage lender.”
However this is less exciting, “points can be redeemed toward lowering the costs of your mortgage on future purchases or refinances.” So rewards that you can use to discount future mortgages, which may or may not be price-competitive than what you can get shopping around?
- Boom Supersonic founder on what’s wrong with airport terminal design, aircraft interiors, TSA security and hotel check-in. Also, how cockpit design and pilot training will be different for a new supersonic jet.
- United Airlines expands from 5 to 14 special meal options although we don’t know if the food for each one will actually be different (e.g. whether they’re using a vegetarian option for the Muslim meal, etc.).
- 40% bonus on transfers from American Express to Virgin Atlantic through end of the year.
- 1.4 million SkyMiles members have linked their Uber accounts interesting that Uber has the big name, low value partners (Delta, Marriott) while Lyft has the smaller name, big value partners (Alaska, Bilt). Of course Uber also has Amex and Lyft has Chase. One imagines that (1) Uber hsa the bigger brand, (2) Chase saw the Uber-Amex deal and needed to be in that space – there’s really only one other player at scale.
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