Always ask for the “haloumi”
My parents were in town this weekend which meant a dinner of the whole crew (us, parents and sister/brother-in-law). These meals have a strange way...
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Photo Friday
Not much exciting going on in the world of travel here at the end of the week. Sure, there is the normal collection of rumors...
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Another one bites the dust
Eos, the all premium carrier that many expected to actually survive, has declared bankruptcy and halted all service effective immediately. Their last flights will operate...
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Deliciously trafe
Several months ago I lamented my dining experiences at Otto NYC. Still, this past week I found myself needing a place to go out for...
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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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Eating past the airline problems
I’m pretty sick of writing about airlines going bankrupt this week. It turns out that five carriers (ATA, Aloha, Champion, Skyway and Skybus) announced they...
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The Skies are Open!
The first flights operating under the recently negotiated Open Skies treaty between the EEC and the United States landed in England this morning, including a...
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Travelling in a global community
A slightly surreal experience yesterday evening reminded me just how important it is to remember that we are really all in a global community now,...
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Delta joins the MD groundings
Following on AA’s need to ground and inspect their MD80s yesterday, Delta announced that they were performing a similar set of checks, and similarly taking...
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A dark day for airline passenger rights
When New York State’s passenger bill of rights went into effect on January 1 it was considered a pretty significant win for passengers, even though...