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Roundup: Articles From Around the Web
Here are some posts from around the web that I thought you may find interesting. Let me know if there is anything good I missed. Email me anything awesome that you find, or write, at Mark@milestomemories.com.
Articles
American Airlines Pilots Say No to Holiday Bonus – Travel Pulse
Is another American Airlines schedule meltdown in our future now?
$95M AppleCare Warranty iPhone Class Action Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval – Top Class Actions
If you used AppleCare then you will want to check this out. The payout seems to be lower than it should be though.
The Peak / Off-Peak Hyatt Points Calendar: Here Are the Negatives and Sweet Spots in the Most Detailed Analysis You’ve Seen So Far – The Lazy Traveler’s Handbook
Andy noticed some interesting things with Hyatt’s recent devaluation.
Conclusion
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I’m interested in the impact of Hyatt’s peak/off-peak award pricing changes, so thanks for the link to Lazy Traveler’s. Being able to find 3500-point off-peak stays at Category 1 hotels with breakfast included (whether for all guests or for Globalists) is a sweet deal worth hunting for.
I’m not super “up” on all of AA’s labor issues, but believe the pilots are grieved/upset that (among other things) AA received $5.8+ billion in federal aid for payroll support and then furloughed AA pilots anyway. You know management-labor relations have be really bad at AA for its pilots union to say FU at the offer of 100% bonus pay over the holidays.
I like Lazy Traveler’s insight, as always.
The AA pilot move seems really strange to me. The union claims to want long term solutions but they won’t say to what or offer actual specifics on what they’d like. We’re talking about six weeks here, which is an unrealistically short timeframe to achieve a labor agreement. Given that, why bother posturing when you aren’t going to get what you claim to want? Am I looking at this wrong?
I haven’t dug into the situation a ton so I can’t really comment on the specifics of AA. It seems like there is a new airline worker labor dispute every few months though and they all go poorly lol