I've written in the past about the fascinating but complex world of hotel award reimbursement rates. For the most part hotels are owned by investment companies, and have management contracts with the major hotel chains. Basically the global hotel chains get a cut of revenue in exchange for running the hotel and slapping their name on it.
That being said, it gets a bit tricky with award nights. The major hotel chains don't have blackout dates on award nights, so as long as a standard room is available you can redeem points for it. But how do you balance the interests of the individual hotels with the interests of the overall hotel chain and loyalty program? Here's how I explained it in the past:
During the recession most hotel loyalty programs introduced “no blackout dates” as a selling point of their programs, and that worked great at the time since hotel occupancy was extremely low, and the marginal cost of filling an extra room was very low.
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Reader Megan asked, What’s the best way to travel first class to Asia? Buy a ticket and upgrade, or go with miles? Great question, because it gets at understanding several key issues about international airline travel, and about miles and points. First of all — although once upon a time American Airlines used to allow […]
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As much as I'm a fan of Uber, there's no denying that at times the methods they use to enter new markets are questionable at best. To some degree I don't really think they can be blamed. The taxi mafias are corrupt as could be, and clearly there are some shady dealings between them and the relevant regulatory authorities.
So by using questionable methods to enter markets and then being shut down, Uber is at least starting the conversation and forcing themselves to be heard in court.
Regardless of how you feel about Uber, though, I think this guy deserves an award for being the world's biggest douchewaffle, as he has performed citizen's arrests on eight UberX drivers in Sydney:
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