Here is some of the best travel news and notes from around the Internet:
- Hyatt is offering double points on stays this quarter
- California residents are really scoring lately. First it was the nearly free Southwest Companion Pass – now CA residents can get 5000 Alaska miles after joining Mileage Plan and taking 1 flight
- Earn IHG points from dining out with Open Table and Grubhub
- This is a long read (it’s a newsletter from the Nomad Mania folks and it’s the 3rd story down) but details a long-running situation where a gentleman with the pseudonym William Baekeland has been allegedly mis-representing himself, organizing trips to remote places around the globe, collecting upfront fees in the total amount of (approximately and/or at least) $750,000 and is now missing in action / not responsive to contact
- Air France flight attendants were detained in Argentina allegedly for not upgrading a politician’s daughter
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Up for more travel news? Here’s the previous installment: United miles as low as 1.18 cents plus more on Southwest and Hawaii
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I am a victim of this piece of shit !
All that is true.
William Baekeland is a crook
Hi Dominique,
I met you, William, Harris and others on Ortelius. I have also paid 3/4 of the money for two sections of the expedition at end 2019. I am a victim too and have listened to your interview. What can we do now? I am in London and shall I report the case to the police before leaving London on April 5?
Sarah
Paul Holland, Ireland
I only discovered today that I was a victim of William Baekeland when an email failed to deliver. I had booked on a feb 2019 trip. I don’t think I’ll see my money again but if you provide an email I will submit full details with a view to possibly helping to bring him to justice