News and notes from around the interweb:
- Sketches of the new United terminal and club at LAX
- An angry badger put the Radisson Blu Stockholm on lockdown (HT: Alan H.)
- Amex has a website showing how much points are worth for a variety of their redemption options. The points are still worth the most transferring to airline miles, of course.
- Richard Branson is calling for a boycott of the Maldives. A cynic might point out that British Airways flies there and Virgin Atlantic doesn’t. No word on whether Virgin Atlantic will stop flying to Lagos, Nigeria. (See: should you travel to countries with awful human rights records? What do you think?
- The most expensive Hawaiian resort of the 1960s (HT: Alan H.)
Instead of impugning Richard Branson’s motivations (I have no idea what they are), the real story here is that: 1) there does seem to be some bad players in the Maldives gov’t, and potential tourists should know a little bit about the country they’re thinking of visiting; and 2) the call for protests could destabilize the country and impact travel.
Lets not forget about the drunk elk in Sweden.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14842999
There are many Radisson Blus in Stockholm, I wonder which one they are referring to.
I went through LAX on UA last week and sketches are nice but they need to turn them into a big upgrade. At present, it’s like 1979 out there with narrow concourses, little seating at gates, weak, repetitive food choices, and a Red Carpet Club that wastes needed seating space on a vacuous entry way.
Gary-
Bradley termimal is almost a year old. Why didn’t UA do it’s work while the terminal was being redone?
Also, the article on this linked above calls LAX a west coast hub for UA. Does UA call this one of its hubs?
There’s a fairly substantial difference between a flight to MLE and one to LOS. The Male one is about tourism, Lagos is about family ties and business. Trying to equate to two to imply some form of improper motivation on Branson’s part is a bit low.
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