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• Poll: Have you ever passed up the cheapest airfare to avoid a bad airline?

  
  Gadling — Authority: 689
  Filed under: Airlines , Airports , Consumer Activism , Airline Reviews People love to complain about the dismal state of air travel these days. Whether its the stomach-churning airline food (and theres so little of it!), the complete lack of leg room, or the fact that your luggage was for some reason routed ...
  1 week ago

• Hook ‘Em While They’re Young: American Airlines Recognizes First-Time Flyers

  
  TravelMusings — Authority: 125
  My first airplane ride was in 1973 on a Northwest Airlines flight from Chicago to Rochester, Minn. It was winter, and the plane hit a fair amount of turbulence. My mother looked like she was going to pass out. I thought it was fun.   That trip
  2 weeks ago

• Five ways to beat the competition to the overhead bin

  
  Gadling — Authority: 689
  Filed under: North America , United States , Airlines Theres nothing so gauche as to stick your carry-on into an overhead bin far ahead of your seat, grab a book or magazine from it and walk 17 rows back to your seat. Because, whether you know it (or give a damn), one of the passengers sitting under your bag ...
  2 weeks ago

• Anthony Toth – Dalai’s PACS Blog: A Flying Obsession

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 171
  News Results: In One Man’s Garage, Pan Am Still Makes The Going Great By CANDACE JACKSON Fliers nostalgic for the golden era of air travel might want to book a trip to Anthony Toth’s garage. Mr. Toth has built a precise online.wsj.com —— Blog Results: Dalai’s PACS Blog: A Flying Obsession We all have our ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pilots overshoot MSP. Whoops!

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 733
  Were they arguing? Were they asleep? Its not clear yet why two pilots overflew the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles before turning around in Wisconsin . What is known is that they dropped radio contact over Kansas, that Air Force fighters were put on alert, and that, according to MN Public radio, passengers saw ...
  2 weeks ago

• Flying high: No punishment for drunk pilots in India

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 493
  Alcohol and aircraft do not mix. Pilots know this, which is why aeroplanes, unlike bottles of sleeping pills and cough medicine, do not have to carry one of those warning stickers that says “Do Not Operate While Taking This Drug”.So, it is a little alarming to read in India’s tabloid paper Mail Today that pilots ...
  2 weeks ago

• US hotel rates tank

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 493
  US hoteliers are really feeling the pinch as they experience their worst trading conditions since 9/11.Room rates have plummeted across the country; in New York, prices are down 30% to an average R1465 a night, down from an average of R2135 a night, the Sunday Times reports from London.It’s the same story in Las ...
  2 weeks ago

• Gadlinks for Wednesday 10.21.09

  
  Gadling — Authority: 689
  Filed under: Gear , Asia , Indonesia , Taiwan , Transportation , Ecotourism Hump day is upon us, and for today I have some pretty fresh, eco-friendly/Asia-themed travel reads for you. Snuggle up with your laptop and enjoy! Well start our tour in the Far East, where my friend Mary Jo offers up 22 things ...
  3 weeks ago

• London’s Gatwick airport sold. A lesson for South Africa

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 493
  Britain’s airport operator BAA has sold Gatwick Airport south of London for £1.51 billion to Global Infrastructure Partners, an investment fund that also owns London City airport. Six thousand miles away on the balmy coast of KwaZulu-Natal, another international airport is also up for sale, only the buyer probably ...
  3 weeks ago

• Flight Attendant Enlists Passengers to Support Our Troops

  
  Lemondrop.com — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Super Woman , Weird News Delta flight attendant Robin Schmidt brings a blank journal on every flight she takes, and asks all of her passengers to write messages, notes of thanks and jokes in it which she sends to a soldier serving overseas. Robin began sending care ... Read more   Permalink ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lufthansa to bring back Wifi

  
  Times LIVE Blogs - Posts — Authority: 150
  Lufthansa is relaunching FlyNet, its inflight broadband Internet service, from mid-2010. FlyNet is a reworked version of its earlier inflight Internet service which it first launched in the Dark Ages of 2003. Then, the airline was the first commercial carrier to offer inflight web access. The service lasted until 2006 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Smelly people officially worst to sit next to on a plane

  
  Asylum Australia — Authority: 443
  Filed under: Women , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your mates in the pub. Airline passengers who smell are officially the least popular to sit next to, says a new study. However the rage is spread pretty widely, and while almost half the respondents to the survey by ... Read more   ...
  4 weeks ago

• JetBlue Airways Reveals ‘Blueberries’

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  JetBlue Airways has revealed the latest livery design in the airline’s LiveTV hangar at Orlando International Airport. The new livery, called “Blueberries,” sports a tailfin design of concentric circles in the airline’s trademark colors, as well as a new white-cap on the tail. The fuselage has also been ...
  4 weeks ago

• BA slashes fares to London

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 493
  British Airways launched another special fare offer this morning with return fares from Cape Town or Johannesburg to London starting at R4 380, including taxes, for travel between 23 and 26 December. Nice fare, indeed. If you can get it. In another effort to lure passengers aboard, the airline is also offering a R655 ...
  4 weeks ago

• “More Bananarama than Panorama” says Ryanair boss as BBC documentary backfires

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 493
  No frills airline Ryanair scored another free publicity coup on Tuesday night after the BBC’s television exposé on the airline backfired.The Panorama documentary, aimed at examining the love/hate relationship between the airline and its passengers, fell short, viewers said. According to The Times in London, a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Naked Lunch, brought to you by Manchester Airport

  
  The Wanderer — Authority: 493
  If you are at all squeamish about stripping off – totally – in front of strangers, then perhaps Manchester Airport is not for you.The airport has introduced an X-Ray machine which generates naked images of passengers. The device, which allows security staff to instantly spot hidden weapons or explosives will also ...
  4 weeks ago

• Smelly people officially worst to sit next to on a plane

  
  Asylum.co.uk — Authority: 571
  Filed under: Women , Happy Hour Hero Our happy hour fact to amaze your mates in the pub. Airline passengers who smell are officially the least popular to sit next to, says a new study. However the rage is spread pretty widely, and while almost half the respondents to the survey by ... Read more   ...
  4 weeks ago

• Long-Haul Flight Survival Kit

  
  TravelMusings — Authority: 125
  Hardly anyone looks forward to being trapped on an airplane for hours on end, but long-haul flights are unavoidable if you like to travel the globe, as I do.   I’m writing this from Tokyo ’s Narita Airport on my three-hour layover
  5 weeks ago

• Air France Auction for Airbus A380 Flights

  
  TravelMusings — Authority: 125
  Eager to get a ride on the new wide-bodied Airbus A380? Air France , the first airline to offer flights on the aircraft between Europe and the United States, is auctioning 380 seats on two inaugural flights in November.   Photo: Air France   The auction will take place in October on the airline’s ...
  8 weeks ago

• Economy Class

  
  David Rheins on Blogger — Authority: 400
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  8 weeks ago

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