AYCJ Day 23: The exhaustion is starting to kick in
The effects of the AYCJ experience on the human body can be debilitating. Three weeks in – and I’m actually being somewhat conservative in my...
Month: September 2010
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Rain, a tire change and a trip in vain
The weather on the eastern seaboard today was pretty ridiculous. Heavy rains, winds and general misery meant that many flights were delayed or canceled. I...
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Sneak peak at the first new United plane
With the last potential road block in the United Airlines/Continental merger – the lawsuit filed by a group of customers in San Francisco – successfully...
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AYCJ Day 21: When the terminal is full of friends
Quick trip down to RDU on the books for my AYCJ adventures this week. I showed up at the airport like normal, about an hour...
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Southwest shows AirTran some LUV – $1.4Bn buyout announced
Apparently the airline industry is bored when there isn’t enough merger activity going on. Southwest and AirTran have ramped that pace back up again, with...
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AYCJ Day 20: ACK! I got ‘em all!
Today’s AYCJ trip was perhaps the silliest of all for me – and that’s saying something. I took a flight out to Nantucket (ACK) and...
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AYCJ Day 19: A trip to the Orient
JetBlue might not have quite as extensive of an international route map as some other legacy network carriers, but I still managed to get to...
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AYCJ Day 18: Maho Beach and the KLM Widebody
“Oh, you again.” Probably not the way most folks want to be greeted when boarding a plane. For me this morning, however, it was just...
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Sweet Singapore suites now available with points
Since they introduced their first class suites on the Airbus A380 a few years ago, Singapore Air has been unwilling to offer up those seats...
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The fallout from the Koito seat debacle
Ever since news came out that airline seat manufacturer Koito had been falsifying safety data for their products the industry has been waiting to learn...
