News and notes from around the interweb:

• Travel booking websites demand tips now, too though I’m not sure if that’s worse than being asked to tip the Hong Kong-based investment group that owns your hotel?
  

  Tipping hotel booking site ‍♂️
  byu/California12399 inEndTipping

• Your regular reminder that you don’t actually want the hotel room that the airline will provide for free during overnight delays caused by weather or crew availability.
  

  @AmericanAir
  Flight OGQVZH delayed (airspace), then canceled—no 2nd pilot. Sent to a roach-infested Comfort Inn (photos attached). Outbound flight only had 6 packs of crackers for the whole plane. @AmericanAir, this was unacceptable. I expect compensation. This is the motel. pic.twitter.com/eCSNM2IPyt

  — deesyk19 (@deesyk19) July 19, 2025

• I think this sign means Seattle has designated its own De Wallen or Red Light District in Amsterdam. They’re making it sound more like the place you’re supposed to go to do The Prostitution, not a place where they crack down on it bigly. It’s “on the main road, less than one mile from terminal, in the ‘Hotel Ghetto’” (HT: Joe)

  

• Does anyone know why Alaska Airlines flight segments never seem to post properly to American AAdvantage? Someone told me once that Alaska rewrites the PNR every time you change anything (upgrade, seat move, same day change) and on the last writeback it often clears any “foreign” frequent flyer number. I do not know if this is accurate but sure figured they’d have fixed this by now.
• American Airlines has invested more in its Admirals Club food. This coincided with an increase in annual fee for its premium credit card that comes with lounge membership. On the one hand, the food still lags United Clubs and Delta Sky Clubs. On the other hand, there’s far more food than there used to be – and if the food were as good as Delta’s, we might see long lines to get in!

  I’m disappointed, though, by their latest offering. They serve a parmesan pasta and these Caramelized Onion Chicken Meatballs. I saw them this week in the Austin and DFW A and B clubs. They have that very specific texture and flavor of cheap meat, that reminds me of the frozen meatballs at Ikea. I hope these do not last. Other recent items have been far better.

  

  

• If you pre-order the American Airlines sliders in domestic first class, the flight attendant serving the meal will likely deliver it without any condiments. Some forget, others don’t know they have some. So consider this your reminder to (1) ask and (2) if they say they don’t have any, ask if they wouldn’t mind checking the utensil drawer.

  

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