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Hyatt’s new Wink Hotels partnership quietly doubled its footprint in Vietnam—and the most interesting part isn’t the branding, it’s the 24-hour stay model. At Wink Da Nang City Centre you check out 24 hours after you arrive (Globalists effectively get four extra hours on top of that). $60 bought strong public spaces, a real cowork setup, and a breakfast that overdelivers.
United is clearly the global carrier among U.S. airlines, and among airlines with the widest reaches in the world, willing to take big swings even to destinations where they lack partners or connecting traffic and that haven’t demonstrated passenger demand yet.
On Wednesday police raided a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City and arrested the ringleader of a flight attendant sex ring. Officers there “found three active flight attendants in bed with different men.”
Vietnam, like Taiwan, is so far one of the great COVID-19 success stories. Despite sharing a border with China they have fewer than 300 confirmed cases and not a single reported coronavirus-related death. And they’re going to some extreme lengths to keep it that way.
A Vietnam Airlines pilot from the U.K. is the most critically ill patient with the virus in the country right now.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
Co-founder of frequent flyer community InsideFlyer.com, emcee of the Freddie Awards, and named one of the "World's Top Travel Experts" by Conde' Nast Traveler (2010-Present) Gary has been a guest on most major news media, profiled in several top print publications, and published broadly on the topic of consumer loyalty. More About Gary »
