Willie swings his axe

[Team Player]

Generally speaking, small hotels/motels of the type you have named, Scottie, are unable to provide:
* reliable 24 hour contactability to allow airlines to advise crew of schedule disruptions, crew changes, or for crew to contact the local station manager to advise of crew unavailability;

* security that will ensure the crews' safety (thus ensuring their next assigned flight gets away);

* check-in/check-out around the clock;

* guaranteed minimum noise levels to rooms allocated to crew (nighttime and daytime);

* checkout times that suit the motels' room servicing time guidelines.

Motels and small hotels of the sort mentioned by Scottie usually charge a cancellation fee for no-shows. The larger hotel chains which secure airline contracts don't.

The contracted rate, paid by the airlines for their crew accommodation is usually considerably LESS than that charged by motels and the smaller hotels.

Finally, crew accommodation costs are a tax deductable employee expense for the employer.

Edit
Scotty had a post - now deleted - indicating that "his loco might like to put him up in nicer places"

So are you saying those places you suggested are not nice, Scotty?

Unlike your loco (I suggest), airlines are able to offer a large volume of supply on a daily basis, year in and year out - bread and butter that the hotels which have the crew contracts can count on as REGULAR income.

Is there some petty envy of working conditions of flight crew flavouring your posts, Scotty?