It was a fun 12+ hours yesterday watching folks react to the news that a travel website (OTA) in Norway was selling dirt cheap tickets on United Airlines by way of the fact that they weren’t adding fuel surcharges to any flights. Personally, I…
Here’s the link. Here’s the skinny: You’re booking a ticket on a Norwegian travel site. They’re currently not applying fuel surcharges. Fuel surcharges are a significant portion of some international tickets and when someone forgets to load the surcharges correctly there are great deals…
A bunch of folks have written about the FCC’s decision to consider (again) the use of cell phones on planes for voice calls. I had initially decided I wasn’t going to write about it despite having strong feelings, mostly because I didn’t think…
What do you do when you land one of the world’s biggest airplanes at the wrong airport? According to the audio, the Dreamlifter pilots can be heard saying to the McConnell control tower: “Ahh, yes sir, we just landed at the other airport.” Not…
The Boeing machinists union rejected a new contract offer from Boeing just about a week ago. I was actually in the camp that thought they would accept the offer, though probably not by a wide margin. Instead, they soundly rejected it by a margin…
From Southwest’s website: It doesn’t take long to get up to 10,000 feet, so it’s not like Southwest is millions of miles ahead of Gogo. But, since they have ubiquitous satellite Wifi on planes (unlike UA or AA’s and DL’s ground-based wifi) they get…
I was having a perfectly reasonable day until I saw this post from Wandering Aramean detailing American Airlines’ decision to jump in the pool of airlines offering upgrades in an auction system. Don’t get me wrong, this program has the potential to be a…
US Airways is offering a one-year free membership to the US Airways Club if you book a preferred room on a 7-day vacation at a resort that’s part of their US Airways Vacation packages. Full disclaimer on a few points. I’m not a big…
Though the prize isn’t that large, American Airlines has a bit of an interesting new game out today revolving around the launch of the new Airbus321. If you like their Facebook page, you’ll have a chance to win 25,000 miles. The catch? They’re taking…
I was on a plane the other day, flying over an airport and couldn’t readily identify it. Most folks don’t think twice about such things, but if you spend as much time on airplanes as I do, weird things interest you. I’m banking on…