dayone

A very low standard.

dayone

Two of the more popular bloggers (and apparently the favorite bloggers of some here) are known scrapers of FT posts and threads.

Kacee

Which means they are fully aware of all the merger issues being discussed here.

There's clearly been some sort of concerted effort on Marriott's part to suppress not just criticism but even mention of these issues.

cruisr

UA-NYC

Good call-out of Lucky! I like him a lot but agreed he has fallen short on this one.

Gary did just have another article where he semi-calls out Marriott

EVA777

They are probably all hacking away at the keyboard figuring out how to pump the new Luxury AMEX dog.

C17PSGR

Most of what they publish seems to come from FT. But ... if they were trying to drive views, and potentials for clicks, an interview with someone from Marriott asking a few questions on how things are going, etc. would drive a lot of views.

Of course, in terms of silence, I'm very surprised I haven't been getting at least an update or two through a broadcast email. Seems pretty odd that they haven't done that.

CCIE_Flyer

Instead they've elected to go the status.marriott.com route. But of course that just says that all systems are now a go - and, oh, yes, your LT status may be reflected incorrectly.

andersonCooper

We did an internal HANA implementation recently and took our internal teams 3+ months to fix all the bugs, with more than one year of planning. I believe this comes down to the size of the enterprise, historic ERM systems etc. No comments on Marriott PR but I share the frustration here with confused status/lifetime status etc.

Back to the road next week and hopefully it will be smooth again.

Kacee

lol Lucky already has two articles on it.

frenchft

Antarius

this is my experience as well. And often with a controlled audience. here you have people who try to combine, have an issue and proceed to do it 40 times more while complaining that they spent 40 times doing it.

I understand its frustrating, but unless you NEED to act on it, wait. This isnt any different than people who complain that the wait times are horrible for airlines when theres a giant snow storm wrecking the east coast - sorry your miles didnt post, but is now really the time you HAVE to fix it?

I guess I just see this as a lot of teeth gnashing over a short term first world problem.

marriott should be better at communicating though. Status.marriott.com is useless as it doesnt seem to live report common bugs or issues.

MSPeconomist

EuropeanPete

It is a bit of a shame that travel blogging at the successful end has moved from being a hobbyist service to being a commercial enterprise. Perhaps the lack of coverage can remind us that we are not the customers or audience of the travel bloggers, we are the product being sold.

reigndrop