Travel writer and TV host Chris Elliott has named Online Travel Review one of his ‘50 Blogs I Can’t Live Without‘ for 2008. I’m thrilled to be on a list with some other great sites. Definitely check it out - I’m sure you’ll find a bunch you haven’t been reading but should.
Read the Rest of the Story: OTR Named 1 of Chris Elliott’s ‘50 Blogs I Can’t Live Without’PointsWizard Writes:
I’ve stayed at all classes of hotels in the last six months.
The one fact I’ve found more often then not is that the lower and mid priced hotels don’t charge for Wi-Fi but the expensive ones do.
Isn’t that the opposite of the way it should be?
Yes some of the expensive hotels will let you [...]
This holiday season, I’d like to offer this modest proposal to all of us who get upgraded when we fly: please give up your seat to a traveling soldier in uniform on your flight.
I was rather touched by this post on Airliners.net that mentions the story of a Delta passenger giving up his first class [...]
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Cranky, who writes the Cranky Flier site, has put together Aviation Dally, a sort of Onion for the Airline world (OK, that’s perhaps a bit of an overreach, but you’ll get my point). Stories were contributed by a number of different people who write about airlines, and I might have contributed a couple that [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Check Out Cranky’s Aviation DallyJetBlue announced that it will launch nonstop service from Orlando to San Jose, Costa Rica, on March 26th, with fares starting at $99 each way.
JetBlue has built a focus city in Orlando, with nonstop service to 22 cities, with a growing number of cities in Latin America, including Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Cancun; Bogota, Colombia; [...]
The Wall Street journal reports the findings of a Forrester study suggesting that travelers have become less loyal to airlines over the past couple of years. The study found that “the percentage of online buyers who say they are loyal to particular travel companies fell to 25% this year from 31% in 2006,” and [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Are Frequent Flyers Actually Becoming Less Loyal or Is the Wall Street Journal Full of It?In an absolutely unbelievable breach of security, 50 climate change protesters cut through a fence at Stansted Airport outside London and chained themselves to a fence, yards from a runway. As you might imagine, this disrupted service to the airport. As you may not have imagined, it caused the cancellation of dozens of flights, [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: 50 Protesters Get on Stansted Runway, Shut Down Airport (Don’t Worry, They’re Not Terrorists)Virgin America, which had announced plans to serve Chicago in early 2009, will abandon that idea after it was unable to secure gates from other airlines at the overflowing airport. Look for an announcement to launch service to Boston and/or Miami in the near future.
Read the Rest of the Story: Virgin America Won’t Serve Chicago, It Turns OutIf you have a flight to Caracas that does not include a stop in another country, it may be canceled after December 17th (according to this thread). Reservations systems are showing nonstop flights from Delta, Continental and American are all discontinued after that date due to a diplomatic issue between Venezuela and the US. [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Your Flight to Caracas Is Probably Canceled