- How To Stay At A Hilton Hotel For Free Until April 30th by Frequent Miler. Keep in mind this will take a bit of work and applies to category one properties, so not exactly actionable for most people.
- YouTube Screws Over Smaller Content Creators With Stricter Minimum Requirements for Monetization by The Gate. 4,000 watch hours is quite the change from 10,000 views. 1,000 subs doesn’t sound that much but for new channels I imagine that’s extremely difficult to meet. I can understand why YouTube are making the changes, just makes things all the more difficult for smaller content creators.
- Southwest Airlines Agrees To $15m Ticket Price-fixing Settlement by Top Class Actions via Travel With Grant. Will do a dedicated post on this when the settlement claim website goes live.
- Avianca LifeMiles Will Expire in 12 Months, Only Accrual (Not Redemption) Will Extend by View From The Wing. This is annoying, personally think any activity should be enough. Don’t think squeezing loyalty members like this is a smart long term play.
Does anyone know a downside of participating with a Class A settlement such as the one cited with SWA? I travel with them on a regular basis with personally purchased tickets (not work related or covered). I sometimes paid a “high” fare because I could not book in advance.
Typically those settlements come with some kind of “by accepting this you agree not to file further claims” language. Personally, I disagree with class action lawsuits on principle and haven’t really seen a settlement big enough to make me challenge those principles. But this probably isn’t the forum to get into that. We’ll just have to see what language the settlement includes in it.
I wonder if you can get any kind of compensation from the Southwest settlement if you only traveled with points. The cost of a flight in points is tied directly to the cash fare, so why not?