OTR in the News
Sep 20th, 2006 | By Jared BlankIn case you care, the OTR got a nice mention in the LA Times over the weekend…
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British Businessman Flies with 2-Year Old Daughter’s Passport
Sep 20th, 2006 | By Jared BlankNo, you can’t bring water on the plane but a grown man can successfully fly to Amsterdam with the passport of a 2-year old girl. A British businessman mistakenly took his daughter’s passport with him on a recent trip to the Netherlands and managed to get through 2 passport checks at London’s Luton airport and [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: British Businessman Flies with 2-Year Old Daughter’s PassportYet More Delays for the A380?
Sep 20th, 2006 | By Jared BlankA French newspaper is reporting that Airbus will announce this week that it will further delay deliveries of the A380 superjumbo. It is likely that the manufacturer will only deliver 4 of the 25 planned airplanes in its first year (Singapore and Emirates would receive 2 each). Someday soon there’ll be a book about how [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Yet More Delays for the A380?To Sell More Blankets, One Airline Cranks Up the Air Conditioning
Sep 19th, 2006 | By Jared BlankTravel Weekly has a pretty good article about how low cost airlines are using sales of ancillary items (food, entertainment, mortgages, etc) to boost their bottom line. An interesting note from the piece: one Asian low cost carrier (Air Asia?) cranks up the air conditioning in its cabins when sales of in-flight blankets aren’t good [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: To Sell More Blankets, One Airline Cranks Up the Air ConditioningAnother Cheap $999 Business Class Fare to London
Sep 19th, 2006 | By Jared BlankSince Delta’s $999 round trip business class fare from New York to London expired last week, it’s time for another airline to come in and fill the void: MAXjet is now offering the same fare from both New York and Washington to London on its all-business-class 767s. Its seats are like a comfortable domestic business [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Another Cheap $999 Business Class Fare to London6 Nights in London, Including Air for $499
Sep 18th, 2006 | By Jared BlankGo-Today has a fantastic deal on a trip to London: $499 gets you a flight on American Airlines from New York (Boston is only $20 extra), 6 nights hotel and daily breakfast. Hell, in London 6 days of breakfast could cost you $499. Book by September 25 and travel January 3 to February 22.
Read the Rest of the Story: 6 Nights in London, Including Air for $499Flights to the Azores for $298
Sep 15th, 2006 | By Jared Blank(Thanks Frommers…)
Looking for an out-of-the-way vacation?
Azores.com is offering a $298 round trip fare from Boston to Sao Miguel in the Azores far off the coast of Portugal. Fares are good November 1-December 12 or January 8 through March 31st. No, it’s not prime season. But for $298, who cares?
More Nonsense on the Security Front
Sep 15th, 2006 | By Jared BlankSalon’s Ask the Pilot column takes another look at the thwarted London terrorism situation and finds that the news of the possible attacks was way, way overblown. The column quotes and article from the New York times which suggests that no attacks were imminent:"Questions about the immediacy and difficulty of the suspected bombing
plot cast doubt [...]
$788 Round Trip Cheap Airfare to New Zealand, Tahiti Stopover Included
Sep 14th, 2006 | By Jared Blank(Via Travelzoo:)
Air Tahiti Nui is offering an amazing deal on flights to Auckland, New Zealand: $788 gets you a round trip flight from JFK to Auckland AND a free stopover in Tahiti. It’s only $888 for the same deal to Sydney. Book by September 26 and fly by December 8. And rumor has it that [...]
Go Skiing in Innsbruck, Austria, for $598, Air & Hotel Included
Sep 14th, 2006 | By Jared BlankA tour operator called Ski Europe is offering an amazing deal on a trip to Innsbruck, Austria this fall. $598 gets you a flight from New York and 4 nights lodging in the ski town. They’ll even throw in breakfast. How can you beat that?
Read the Rest of the Story: Go Skiing in Innsbruck, Austria, for $598, Air & Hotel Included