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…
Hyatt is selling discounted Gold Passport points through August 18, 2014 and the offer seems to be targeted. You can see if you’re eligible for the offer here. All of the accounts I keep track of were eligible. There are 3 tiers for the…
Hyatt announced a new promotion that can earn you up to 1,000 bonus points per night for stays at any Hyatt or MGM Resorts/M Life property in Las Vegas. The promotion runs through the end of the year, so there’s plenty of time to…
This could also be subtitled “forsaking comfort in the pursuit of beauty”. Every year for the past half dozen years or so, our family has taken a vacation to Deep Creek Lake which is located at the far Western tip of Maryland. It’s a…