Delta completes the bonus elite mile party – with a catch
Not willing to be outdone by the other major carriers, Delta announce today that they too will offer bonus elite miles for their customers. They...
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Continental joins the Spring 2009 double EQM party
Continental Airlines has joined American Airlines and United Airlines in offering double elite miles for travel this spring. Continental’s promotion is actually a bit more...
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Double your pleasure, double your fun, double your EQMs
Business travel is down this year. There is no one arguing that fact. The carriers are all looking for ways to boost their numbers –...
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Giddy for GIDS at Continental
Gate Information Display Systems, also known as GIDS, are the airlines’ fancy name for the screens that they have near the gates telling you what...
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So, why exactly am I on my way to Tokyo?
By the time you read this I’ll be somewhere in Tokyo, having arrived after an almost 14 hour long flight from Houston. But right now...
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Where everybody knows my name
Actually I do have a couple bars where I’m known like that, but it has been a long, long time since I’ve had that experience...
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Looking down at panhandle country
Sometimes the views are just amazing from the air. These are from somewhere over the panhandle of Texas or Oklahoma, I believe, based on our...
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Stymied by the bar selections in flight
Flight number five of this week’s ridiculous journey was the first time that I felt coherent enough to really dive in to the bar selection...
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Row44 finally flying
The battles between in-flight internet service providers are rather entertaining. The two main players, Row44 and Aircell (provider of the gogo service) are after each...
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Tokyo really is on the way home from Seattle
I’ve been trying to convince myself of this for the past few days now. It isn’t working and I believe that I will just give...