News and notes from around the interweb:
- IHG Rewards Club is changing the details for many folks on the new Accelerate promotion. Definitely the IT Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight out in Atlanta.
- JetBlue is offering a fast track to elite status. Register by September 7 then earn 3,750 base flight points in 90 days to receive Mosaic status through 2016.
- Passenger live tweets awkward mid-air breakup (HT: Point Me to the Plane)
- The 3 dirtiest places on an aircraft are try tables, blankets, and seat pockets. I want to believe that the blankets I get wrapped in plastic are clean, and coach doesn’t get blankets anyway… (HT: Alan H.)
- Scott Mayerowitz offers a 3D virtual reality tour of three suites — one in the air, one on land and one at the sea: Singapore Airlines’ A380 suites, the Ty Warner Penthouse at the Four Seasons New York, and the Duplex Stateroom on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2.
- TSA “let the Washington Post show a photo..of the master baggage keys” it allows making it possible for the world to see how to open your luggage. (HT: Alan H.) Did I mention the federal government wants backdoors to your encryption?
Gary – not sure where to ask you a question, so here it is. Do you know anyway to convert IHG free night certs (from credit card annual benefit) to points or something? I have 2 that will expire in Oct, when my other 2 will begin, but there’s no time to use them before then!
IHG corrected the details. That is substantially different than changing the details. The correction had no real effect on the terms originally posted for member tasks.
Last year, during Into the Nights promotion, IHG actually changed some member’s tasks for earning bonus points about one month after the promotion started.
Yeah what is the point of encryption when the government can just break it at will? The argument that if have nothing to hide we shouldn’t mind is beside the point.
@Chris D – While there are plenty of reports of Hyatt doing that sort of conversion I don’t think I’ve seen any from IHG. What I’d probably do is gift the reward night by making it in your own name and adding someone else as a second name on the reservation so they can check in…
OK…good call…that could work. I’d hate to see them go to waste!
@Gary – with all due respect, people don’t know what encryption is. You have to say something more meaningful to them, such as:
“The government also wants these master keys installed in Facebook, WhatsApp, Google, your phone, and the rest of your digital life.”
Sorry, people probably don’t realize those are privacy-implicating. I meant:
Snapchat
Skype
Instagram
Twitter
Tinder
Etsy
Pintrest
et cetera