The dark side of airport pickup: Organized crime targets unsuspecting travelers [Roundup]

News and notes from around the Internet:

• It's probably better if your name isn't on your driver's sign when you pick them up, but I'm skeptical that happens as often as people think. (HT: @crucker)
  

  Organized crime organizations are experts in bribing airline employees and obtaining flight manifests (passenger lists) from them.

  They then Google each name, make a list of seemingly high-profile targets, and arrive early to check the limo drivers' signs for the correct names. They pay or threaten the actual…

  — Tim Ferriss (@tferriss) 16 August 2024

• Truth
  

  In Washington, DC, we don't say “I love you,” we say “I'll pick you up from Dulles,” and I think that's beautiful.

  — Ellie Hall (@ellievhall) 16 August 2024

• Ogden, Utah – NIMBYs forced the closure of an airport runway. Since then, six planes have crashed. Commercial flight operations have resumed (Breeze, of course). And now people are questioning the decision, although it's not clear if the problems are related.

• I understand that, but you also need to check a clothes dryer.
  

• Hyatt Regency Orlando expands its offering with an adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel with 2,500 rooms
• The Financial Times celebrates the end of same-day business trips. As exhausting as they are, it seems that companies used to force such trips on their employees (obviously unwilling to pay for hotel rooms?), although companies often respected their employees' time and did not force them to stay away longer. Employees with families in particular usually want to get home as soon as possible.

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