Crew Rest
In many ways the illusion of the flight attendant job as a a glorious world traveler role has worn off for me. I see the...
News
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Finally some good news on passenger rights
After the reversal of the NY Passenger Bill of Rights and all the airlines shutting down the past couple weeks, things have been looking pretty...
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USAir: Now selling the good seats
One of the very poorly kept secrets to travel as a non-elite is that the “good seats” at the front of the plane, normally reserved...
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The real money is in the belly of the plane
Next time you’re sitting on a plane and wondering just how much money the airline is bringing in based on the flight, remember to consider...
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Delta/Northwest merger announced
After dancing around the situation the past several weeks in hopes that their pilots would actually have an agreement to make a merger run smoothly,...
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Ten scariest runways
Travel + Leisure magazine has an article in this month’s issue (and online) about some of the scariest runways in the world, including pictures and...
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Just how much research goes into that travel guide?
In the case of some Lonely Planet books, the answer might be none. According to one Lonely Planet contributor, he actually wrote one of the...
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Hotel bookings getting more difficult for some
Completely useless post, but entertaining, and I needed a good laugh this afternoon. Some civil servants are having rather hard restrictions placed on hotels they...
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The final Frontier??
Yet another airline struggling with cash-flow issues, Frontier Airlines, based in Denver, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. Unlike the last few,...
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A quarter inch = 2500+ cancellations
The details are trickling out on the AA re-grounding of their MD-80 aircraft, and it looks like a quarter of an inch is the cause...