From what I can tell from other sites, you airline dorks love your trip reports (I mean that entirely with love) with lots of detail about the flights. So I thought I’d pass along this report from my trip last weekend to St. John’s, Newfoundland, with our 3 year old girls, Sage & Scarlett. [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: A Quick Trip Report: Flying with 3 Year OldsBack in 2007 Delta made a bold decision to expand its international flying signficantly from both Atlanta and JFK. The theory was that the domestic market was oversaturated, and that there was plenty of opportunity to grow to second (and third-) tier cities and stay out of the way of competition. 757s made it cost [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Delta’s Great International Experiment Is Basically DeadDelta announced that the Northwest Airlines brand will disappear by the end of 2010. I’m fully aware that most airline brands become far more beloved once they’ve been gone for a while (Eastern?), but even so I always felt that Northwest was unfairly trashed. Sure, they stranded those people on the tarmac for what, 7 [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Northwest Brand to Disappear in 2010: 5 Things We Didn’t Fully Appreciate about NorthwestI try not to bore everyone here with personal stories (I’m more than aware that no one cares), but here’s a quick one I’d like your input on:
On a whim, I booked a flight yesterday at 2pm on Spirit Airlines to fly to Nicaragua for 3 days on the beach ($300 all-in with no advanced [...]
After many years of collecting United Airlines MileagePlus miles with their United Airlines Visa Card I finally called it quits and cancelled it.
You ask why? How many times can you be turned down for frequent flyer tickets because there are no seats available or it’s double miles or nothing?
How many times can you be turned [...]
In case you hadn’t seen, the government of the United Arab Emirates refused to grant a visa to Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer to play in the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai. The reason why I’m writing about this anti-semitic bunch of nonsense is because there is an airline angle to this story: Emirates [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Don’t Reward Emirates Airlines for the UAE’s Decision to Ban Israeli Tennis PlayerLots of blogs feature trip reports that include every minute detail of their flights down to the last peanut, and for those who love that stuff (hats off to you, One Mile at a Time) I suggest reading a different site. Instead, I bring you my minutia-free trip report from our quick jaunt down to [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Spirit Airlines Review: A Cartagena Trip ReportOnline Travel Review has joined 2007 and launched a Twitter page that just features great airfare deals posted all day. I don’t bother posting all of the fake airfare deals you see everywhere else (flights from $79!!!!!) - just the really, really good stuff (Orlando to Bogota, $49). Visit twitter.com/cheapestairfare and get great [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Subscribe to OTR on Twitter - Great Airfare Deals Posted All DayI’d like to declare 2009 to be the year we stopped looking back to the airlines in the 1960s and 1970s with such fondness. I have some bad news for you: it wasn’t so good back then. Just like how I look back on college without a single negative memory (oh wait, [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Those Good Old Days on the Airlines - They Weren’t So GoodThe January 6 ATA SmartBrief (a free newsletter that is well worth subscribing to) linked to a letter to the editor of Crain’s Chicago Business from Air Transport Association President James C. May about oil speculation. (The letter can be found here, but registration for a trial subscription is required.)
The letter was in response to [...]
