News and notes from around the interweb:
- It’s pronounced marry-it not marry-ought.
- American has been saying they plan to fix the awful first class seats on Oasis retrofit aircraft – lack of back support, no underseat storage because of placement of the bars which attach to the aircraft. At least they’ve been saying they would pause retrofits to come up with an improvement to the seats (I have no heard promises of replacing the awful seats already in service).
Oddly American chose not to opt for the Rockwell Collins MiQ seat version with extra personal item storage space):
- Just another day at La Quinta
- Seven Emirates cabin crew accused of plotting Dubai bomb attack
- Hotel occupancy rates up year-over-year so don’t expect great hotel promos. This weekend I paid an $18 ‘facilities fee’ at a Chicago-area hotel that wasn’t even downtown. Of course none of this hotels for Vegas where occupancy rates are down so resort fees are a killer.
- Flying United? Consider prayer. (HT: @tmount)
Just like a prayer you know we'll take you there… 😉 ^AD
— United Airlines (@united) April 20, 2019
- I wonder what possible value Avis can hope to get paying to brand the packaging on American Airlines headphones?
Just like Avis, those earbuds are a stripped-down version of what you use at home, acceptable only because at that specific place and time you have no other viable options. It’s brilliant.
Marry-ought? Was that how you were pronouncing it?
No one outside the USA would have pronounced it with an -ought, ever. It’s a relatively common English surname and has always been pronounced -it ( although the -it is truncated and not fully expressed)
( eg, Steve Marriott, The Small Faces).
I’ve known how to pronounce it for quite some time, but choose the Marry-ought pronunciation because people look at me weird when I say Marry-it. The problem is that their own employees say Marry-ought quite often. Anyone else notice this?
I just call it Bonvoy! now. Way easier, plus they have those catchy commercials! That’s BONvoy! by the way, not bonVOY!, also you will need to add an “!” to the end of the word from now on. /s
Ugh, Gary you linked an article by Chris Matyszczyk, the king of click bait. He’s the single reason why I don’t visit Inc anymore.
“Marryit?” You mean “Marriott.”
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It’s actually Marry-uht
And those Avis ear-buds are branded as well, it’s not just the packaging. Avis should realize that coupling themselves with a dumpster fire like AA is not a good idea.