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Jan 8, 2010, 6:55 am
#61
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Charlotte, NC USA
Programs: Hilton Gold
Posts: 118
Read the book
If you liked the movie, read the book. Or better yet, listen to an audiobook version. The book, while it has the same character and same basic story line, is completely different in most ways. I won't give things away. The book uses a fictional airline as the one the main character flies to gain miles but they mention other real airlines in passing. Hiltons are not as prominent in the book, although the main character does mention Hampton Inn a few times. I'm sure American Airlines and Hilton paid for product placement in the movie.
I think anyone who flies a lot and covets miles and points will get a lot of laughs from the book.
I think anyone who flies a lot and covets miles and points will get a lot of laughs from the book.
Jan 8, 2010, 12:02 pm
#62
Join Date: May 2008
Location: God's Country
Programs: UA, AA, HH, MR
Posts: 415
If you liked the movie, read the book. Or better yet, listen to an audiobook version. The book, while it has the same character and same basic story line, is completely different in most ways. I won't give things away. The book uses a fictional airline as the one the main character flies to gain miles but they mention other real airlines in passing. Hiltons are not as prominent in the book, although the main character does mention Hampton Inn a few times. I'm sure American Airlines and Hilton paid for product placement in the movie.
I think anyone who flies a lot and covets miles and points will get a lot of laughs from the book.
I think anyone who flies a lot and covets miles and points will get a lot of laughs from the book.
Jan 8, 2010, 2:10 pm
#63
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Programs: UA PM, DL PM, Bonvoy Titanium, HH Gold
Posts: 1,293
Just as an FYI, Hilton and American didn't pay a penny to be featured in the movie:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/bu...ia/21adco.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/bu...ia/21adco.html
If you liked the movie, read the book. Or better yet, listen to an audiobook version. The book, while it has the same character and same basic story line, is completely different in most ways. I won't give things away. The book uses a fictional airline as the one the main character flies to gain miles but they mention other real airlines in passing. Hiltons are not as prominent in the book, although the main character does mention Hampton Inn a few times. I'm sure American Airlines and Hilton paid for product placement in the movie.
I think anyone who flies a lot and covets miles and points will get a lot of laughs from the book.
I think anyone who flies a lot and covets miles and points will get a lot of laughs from the book.
Jan 8, 2010, 2:26 pm
#64
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: AVL
Programs: Hhonors Diamond, Bonvoy LT Plat, TSA vilifier extraordinaire, Once upon a time... US Silver, AA Gold
Posts: 1,313
From the article:
The company also is promoting the film on more than a million key cards internationally, a first for the chain, whose cards have never featured anything besides its own logos and amenities.
This isn't true. I have a 2008 NCAA tournament keycard tacked to my bulletin board that I got at a Hilton in Raleigh.
The company also is promoting the film on more than a million key cards internationally, a first for the chain, whose cards have never featured anything besides its own logos and amenities.
This isn't true. I have a 2008 NCAA tournament keycard tacked to my bulletin board that I got at a Hilton in Raleigh.
Jan 8, 2010, 9:47 pm
#65
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Midwest
Programs: DL Silver, MR Gold, HH Gold, National Exec Elite, PC Gold
Posts: 37
Saw the movie and thought it was great, but did notice it was unreasonably good for AA and unreasonably bad for Hilton. Why? Because on all of his flights he is in very nice FC cabins, including short flights that would most certainly be RJs with no FC. But in the hotels he is always in a standard room when he would most likely be getting UGs to suites.
I just thought that was interesting and wondered why Hilton didn't push to show off their nicer accommodations. I suppose that since they didn't pay into the movie they really didn't have any say in the matter, but still.
I just thought that was interesting and wondered why Hilton didn't push to show off their nicer accommodations. I suppose that since they didn't pay into the movie they really didn't have any say in the matter, but still.
Jan 8, 2010, 10:20 pm
#66
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: DFW
Programs: AS, BA, AA
Posts: 3,670
I mentioned in the Community Buzz thread that I even spotted a bottle of half-empty HH/Crabtree & Evelyn mouthwash on the bathroom counter in Bingham's apartment.
WRT the upgrades, I thought HHonors doesn't provide upgrades to suites. Especially if he doesn't stay repeatedly at the same hotel, he probably wouldn't expect upgrades to suites, right?
Jan 8, 2010, 10:46 pm
#67
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Oregon
Programs: AA EXP, AS 75K, UA 1MM Gold, HH Diamond, Hyatt Explorist, IHG Plat, National EE, Hertz PC
Posts: 4,001
Amen. I have been a Diamond for years, but because my business brings me to a different place each trip, I don't get anything more special than a bucket of warm spit. His upgrade experience pretty much mimics mine.
Jan 8, 2010, 10:55 pm
#68
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Midwest
Programs: DL Silver, MR Gold, HH Gold, National Exec Elite, PC Gold
Posts: 37
I guess I'm mixing my Marriott and Hilton experiences in my head. I just started staying at Hiltons more this year and got diamond status for the first time. On my most recent trip to Ft. Lauderdale I stayed in a Doubletree on Sunrise Blvd. and was blocked into a suite, which I don't think would have been available at my corporate rate. Definitely never stayed there before. Maybe it was an all-suites property? I don't know if there are Doubletrees like that.
Jan 9, 2010, 1:26 pm
#69
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Monterey, California
Programs: Affiliated with all, participate in some
Posts: 2,188
The film reminded me of how I found myself locked in the Hilton Miami Airport stairwell back in 1989 on my honeymoon. I didn't plan to stay at Hilton MIA for my honeymoon, but our late flight arrival resulted in a missed connection for the once a day Pan Am connection to the Virgin Islands on our first frequent flyer award tickets. Incidentally we earned the free award tickets from our paid Pan Am tickets to London (the real honeymoon trip) in March 1989. The Pan Am promotion was to promote travel to London after the Lockerbie disaster.
It was August and the Hilton MIA stairwell was incredibly hot and humid. I went up and down a lot of floors in the stairwell trying to avoid setting off the emergency alarm. Finally found my way out without setting off the alarm, although dripping sweat through the restaurant kitchen and restaurant tables of diners.
The firing scenes also brought back memories. At least the people in the film were allowed to return to their desks to collect their things. In a 2005 mass layoff at CTB/McGraw Hill in Monterey I was called to a small closet-size room, fired, and had to wait 15 minutes while someone stuffed my desk personal items in a box and then I was escorted out of the building by security. No opportunity to say goodbye to colleagues and a couple of years of personal editor material I had compiled were discarded by the company.
It was August and the Hilton MIA stairwell was incredibly hot and humid. I went up and down a lot of floors in the stairwell trying to avoid setting off the emergency alarm. Finally found my way out without setting off the alarm, although dripping sweat through the restaurant kitchen and restaurant tables of diners.
The firing scenes also brought back memories. At least the people in the film were allowed to return to their desks to collect their things. In a 2005 mass layoff at CTB/McGraw Hill in Monterey I was called to a small closet-size room, fired, and had to wait 15 minutes while someone stuffed my desk personal items in a box and then I was escorted out of the building by security. No opportunity to say goodbye to colleagues and a couple of years of personal editor material I had compiled were discarded by the company.
Jun 20, 2010, 4:01 am
#70
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: TOA
Programs: HH Diamond, Marriott LTPP/Platinum Premier, Hyatt Lame-ist, UA !K
Posts: 20,061
Anyone ever find out who won the 1,000,000 Points?
Did a search on Google and found nothing. Anyone here get selected for anything?
Jun 20, 2010, 5:00 am
#71
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Germany
Programs: Hilton Lifetime Diamond, Marriott Gold, LH Senator, …
Posts: 259
Saw the movie and thought it was great, but did notice it was unreasonably good for AA and unreasonably bad for Hilton. Why? Because on all of his flights he is in very nice FC cabins, including short flights that would most certainly be RJs with no FC. But in the hotels he is always in a standard room when he would most likely be getting UGs to suites.
I just thought that was interesting and wondered why Hilton didn't push to show off their nicer accommodations. I suppose that since they didn't pay into the movie they really didn't have any say in the matter, but still.
I just thought that was interesting and wondered why Hilton didn't push to show off their nicer accommodations. I suppose that since they didn't pay into the movie they really didn't have any say in the matter, but still.
