For those of you who follow multiple travel blogs, I bet you think this is a post about one of the new American Express lounges? Nope. But, you can find plenty of reviews of those at View From The Wing, here, here and here….
I’ve been very lucky to maintain a pile of miles and points that help our family travel the world for free in luxury. The advent of revenue based programs at Delta and United make me a bit sad that it’s likely I won’t have…
And, of course a whole bunch of people just said, duh. This really does fall into the topic of common sense. Airlines will send out announcements about fare sales through newsletters, so it’s always a good thing to be subscribed to your favorite airline’s…
Venture Beat doesn’t think so, and I’m not 100% sure they’re wrong. But, before I discuss the article, a little background on why someone allergic to social media like me became a Foursquare nut. A few years ago, a company called TopGuest came up…
Recently, a Thomson Airways 787 traveling from the Dominican Republic to Manchester, UK was forced to make an emergency landing in the Azores because of a low oil pressure warning on one of its two engines. That fact, in and of itself isn’t terribly…
I’m doing my best to be more active in social media but as many of you know, I’m still behind the curve. I’m not as bad as Bill Belichick, the coach of the New England Patriots, who recently said: What’s online, you should go…
It’s been almost a year since the FAA officially said it was okay to use electronic devices from gate to gate on flights in the United States. Late last year, the FCC proposed overturning the ban on in-flight cell phone calls. At the time,…
United Airlines will now allow passengers to submit a copy of their passport through the airline’s mobile app in order to receive a boarding pass. It took me almost 2 years to get to the point where United didn’t require me to scan my…
Doug Parker was interviewed recently by Business Travel News. There were a couple of nuggets for people trying to get a sense of what’s coming up as the merger progresses. The loyalty programs will be combined in the first 6 months of 2015. From…
No, spammers didn’t get control of my blog. I just thought this was an “interesting” choice for the title of a US Airways Dividend Miles shopping offer I got today. Well, technically it was “Clear Skin for Back to School”. And, I’m sure that’s…