Spend $50, Save $200: The Smart Way to Avoid Resort Fees in Las Vegas [Roundup] – View from the Wing

News and notes from around the interweb:

• Tip the front desk at check-in in Las Vegas and ask them to remove resort fees finally a use for the rapidly spreading idea of front desk check-in tipping and a new twist on the $20 trick. This guest spent $50 to save $200, not bad!

  

• GHA Discovery gives D$5 bonus for each stay booked via app that’s down from $15, but still more generous than other chains!
• Rhapsody In Blue has entered the public domain.

  United Airlines is fundamentally intertwined with George Gershwin’s 1924 Rhapsody in Blue. It’s hard to imagine that when Continental Airlines management took over they considered dropping the song which the airline has used since the 1980s. United was the first commercial brand ever to license it, for an annual fee of $300,000 at the time.

  The Gershwin piece wasn’t just used on board and in commercials but also a version was recorded for the ‘trippy tunnel’ connecting United concourses at Chicago O’Hare.

• Is she just mad that only 13% of Delta first class seats are going to upgrades?
  

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• Should hopes and dreams for the New Year be aspirational (and seemingly unrealistic) or grounded and more modest? Which one is this?
  

  One of my wishes for 2025 is that ⁦@AmericanAir⁩ flight attendants provide proper service to First Class passengers instead of drinking tea and watching YouTube videos pic.twitter.com/r3klAyWiD8

  — Saianel (@saianel) January 1, 2025

• Yaaasss! Even down-market IndiGo knows.
  

  IndiGo has signs everyone would love on Delta planes
  byu/Gohanto indelta