News and notes from around the interweb:
- American Airlines Basic Economy:
- Starting June 7, Hyatt will limit each member to receiving 10 transferred rewards into their account each calendar year. This really doesn’t seem like a very tough constraint, honestly.
- “The policy allows that, so we took advantage of that.” Denver airport spent up to $19,000 plane per ticket for employees to travel to a conference in Spain. Airport CEO Phil Washington said this is because they have to get off the plane and go straight to the conference, but they actually went in a day early.
The best part, to me, is the CEO (who was Biden’s failed nominee to lead the FAA) acting as though this is something being done to them by policy when he’s the CEO and… has some say in policy? They sent 9 executives to Europe, one of whom turned the trip into an extended vacation against policy.
The round-trip flights for DIA Chief Operating Officer Dave Laporte came out to $19,194.21, while the flights for William Poole, the airport’s senior vice president of planning and design, totaled $15,764.71. Washington’s flights came in at $12,324.01, and flights for his chief of staff, Maria Meleandez, were $12,324.21.
“We always try to get the cheapest fares we can get,” said Washington.
- Information on all airline tickets being sold by travel agencies is being sold to government agencies including law enforcement and immigration agencies as well as the Departments of Defense, State, Labor and even the SEC.
- If flight attendants are going to maintain they’re safety professionals (and therefore airlines are legally required to have them) then they can’t complain about the drug testing.
- The Sapphire Rumor
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