u/MassageToss

Hi! I live in Seattle and fly to Hawaii 1-2x per year with a friend. I fly to Vegas/California maybe 7x per year (both solo and with a friend).

I do usually have at least one checked bag, but will book first if it is only 100-200 more per leg.

I'm trying to increase my comfort, so I don't want to do inconvenient stuff to try to get perks (red eye flights, weird days, etc). Also, Alaska lounges would be at best a fallback for me.

I'm not sure I understand and can pencil out the perks. For example, the flight I am looking at one way from Hawaii would be 96k points. So, the 25k "companion" points don't seem that valuable since I wouldn't even have the extra needed to actually buy the companion ticket? Thoughts? Thank you!

The past couple of days Airbnb hasn't sent any texts or push notifications when a guest messages me. For one of the guests, with an existing booking, there isn't even an email. Nothing at all.

All my phone settings and settings in the Airbnb app are correct, and this just started happening sort of randomly. It's possible it coincided with a phone update, but I don't see how that would prevent Airbnb from texting / emailing.

Has anyone else experienced this? Any fix? Thank you.