News and notes from around the interweb:

• Luxury Travel Diary’s concierge will give $50 off hotel bookings of $1200 or more or any premium flight booking using code GARYJAN19. Strategically useful. For luxury hotels you generally get a worse deal booking direct.

• Westjet flight attendants are supposed to rat out pilots who refuse to volunteer to help pick up trash (HT: jaysona)

• Papa John’s overhauls loyalty program. Here’s an American Airlines pilot bringing 40 Papa John’s pizzas to diverted passengers. No word on whether he collected points.

• Marriott faces class action lawsuit over data breach, actual news would be if there wasn’t going to be a lawsuit. It turns out that your data isn’t worth very much when you try to go sell it.

  

• The age of the missing airliner is coming to and end, because satellites (HT: Tommy L)

• Gulf Air is hiring inflight chefs. Many customers know about Etihad’s inflight chefs in first class, flight attendants with culinary experience. Former Etihad CEO James Hogan had been CEO of Gulf Air, and before that put inflight chefs in business class on british midland.

  Gulf Air is also currently looking for so-called ‘Sky Chefs’ for its Business Class service. Candidates will need a formal qualification in culinary arts along with at least three-years kitchen experience. Gulf Air is accepting applications from both male and female candidates who must be aged between 25-40 years old.