New and notes from around the interweb:
- Alaska Airlines status match now only gives you 90 days of status, with a challenge to keep it. (HT: Nick Ewen)
- As I’ve said before, you can’t ask permission to use the lavatory when the seat belt sign is on you will be told no like this Irish woman was, to quite ill effect. The flight attendant doesn’t want liability, and the airline doesn’t either if something happens. However they usually don’t actually mind. That Air Canada crew apparently did mind and the woman is receiving travel vouchers because of it.
- Lufthansa Technik has mocked up an executive transport interior for an Airbus A220
- Housekeeping doesn’t always clean. Here’s what it looks like.
- What was the Marriott data breach, how did it happen, and what was the impact?
- No more complimentary buy on board items for Virgin Australia business class effective October 9
- The economy seats on the British Airways A350 that don’t recline They do get an extra inch of legroom though.
It does not matter how many times call it the Marriott data breach, that does not make it true. It was a Starwood, and only a Starwood, data breach. Those of us staying in Marriott hotels are unaffected.
First of all: It wasn’t a Marriott data breach. It was a Starwood data breach that Marriott inherited.
@George – Marriott was managing the databases for some time when it was breached.
Letter to IHG is WAY TOOOO LONG. They will lose interest and pitch it in the bin after the first paragraph where the writer is waxing on about the lovely trip to KCMO.
Love the subhead, which is all that matters: “Many of the details remain undisclosed, but this cyberattack is a cautionary tale about IT security, mergers and acquisitions, and Chinese espionage.”