Airbnb Tells Hosts To Stop Making Guests Wash Dishes And Strip Beds—Some Threaten To Quit [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb: Airbnb’s New Policy for Hosts: Don’t Ask Guests to Wash Dishes or Strip Beds (Skift) Some hosts are outraged. Airbnb is limiting what hosts can ask of guests at checkout. In a Tuesday email titled “Important Changes to House Rules,” the company told hosts that starting November 20, they can choose from seven standard house rules and are “generally not allowed” to ask guests to wash dishes, strip beds, or take out the garbage. “In our own place. Washing and putting away the dishes, stripping the beds, and taking the trash to the dumpsters don’t seem unreasonable to me. We are not hotels, but individuals or sometimes professionals with rentals. This is unacceptable to us. Either the policy changes, or we leave.” Lonna, a San Diego host, said she and other hosts are angry about the changes. “Overwhelming, there is outrage, disappointment, and concern for real safety and liability,” Lonna wrote. “A few hosts have pointed out that Airbnb will make more money if we have to increase cleaning fees. Some hosts are leaving the platform, and others are suggesting we do a mass black-out to gain attention. Others have written letters to Airbnb and alerted their local government.” How planes fly without air traffic control, maybe we actually need more of that. UK Liberal Democrats want to end first class on overcrowded trains even Air Koryo has business class.. British Airways increases elite status requirements starting April 1, 2027. Silver goes from 7,500 to 8,000 tier points and Gold from 20,000 to 21,000. Updates to the American Airlines Admirals Club Mexico City 30% transfer bonus from Capital One to Virgin Atlantic through November 20 American Airlines flight attendant Carol Fair retiring after 63 1/2 years on the job It’s been a long run for Fair, who will end her career as No. 1 on American’s seniority list out of about 30,000 flight attendants. (She is effectively the most senior, she said: Two women with higher seniority have not officially retired, but they no longer fly.) Pro-Iranian United Airlines pilot banned from flying to Israel. He’s been on leave from the carrier since 2024, and qualified on 737s so current make it to Tel Aviv anyway (at least for United). He reportedly also supports the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah. United recently had to pull another pilot off the line again over pro-Hamas social posts as well. Topics on this page