Jaime, you have some really solid ideas here.
Some things on your wishlist Airbnb could facilitate without involving the host. For example, I can't leave my full time job (90% of my income) to pick up guests from the airport, but could see Airbnb offering Lyft or Uber credits.
Same thing with some of the discounts and loyalty programs, so long as Airbnb chose to fund them.
But some things make me wonder if you really "get" the idea of homesharing. At least to me, it's meant to be a peer-to-peer exchange. I lived with families when traveling overseas and enjoyed it SO much more than I ever did a hotel.
Suggesting things like flexible checkin/out make me wonder if you understand how this works from the host side. I'm not a hotel that has hundreds of rooms with, inevitably, one open at all times. Do you like the "live like a local" and human contact parts, or just the "vacation for less than a hotel"?
I work an 8-5 job on top of hosting. My cleaners are friends who clean your bathroom and change the sheets while their kids are in school.
If Airbnb makes a SuperGuest program with flexible checkout and you want to leave at 4pm, that means my cleaner doesn't get dinner with her family (if she'd even accept the gig). My next guest can't arrive until 7-8pm or I'd have to leave that night unbooked. Why would I want you as a superguest when I'd lose that extra $250 (or $500 if you also wanted a 10am check-in)? Or suffer a bad review from the non-super-guest who was upset they couldn't arrive until 8pm, or forced to check out at 7am?
To earn my SuperHost status (14 consecutive times in the 4 years I've been hosting) I have:
- greeted 1am arrivals
- dug a car out during a blizzard
- built countless bonfires and offered hundreds of S'mores
- drug myself out of bed to let in the drunks who couldn't open the door at 2am
- cheered guests on in marathons (and left them salt and foot baths for afterward)
- popped champagne corks and offered cocktails
- cleaned vomit, urine, male ejaculate (Airbnb censors the scientific word), and menses off my linens
- celebrated weddings, bachelorette, babymoon and anniversaries
- slept on the couch when guests are having late-night noisy fun above my bedroom
- finished prepping laundry for the next day or cleaned myself until 1 and 2am
What does a guest do to be a SuperGuest? Communicate well and leave the place in decent shape? Sheee-it. I'm doing all this stuff for you all and you want me to bend MORE over backwards? >.<
I guess what I'm trying to say is that this whole thing only works if there's a balance and give and take. Otherwise the only "hosts" left here will be hands-off professionals and hotel listings. No more living like a local.
If you're that valuable Airbnb can send gift baskets to my house in advance of your arrival, or a service over to stock the fridge and do housekeeping service during your stay. But really you should just go to a hotel where they offer those things along with 24-hour conceirge service and same day fully refundable cancellations. Too many SuperGuests with ideas like yours and home sharing, at least the way Airbnb is doing it, will be dead.