Oct
08
2015
Spirit Airlines copied Southeast Asian low cost carrier Scoot’s branding.
Now another Southeast Asian low cost carrier is aping Spirit’s advertising.
Uh Oh. Thai Airline Runs “More Bang for Your Baht” Sale
An Airline Just Opened a Farm at New York JFK Airport. And It’s Useless.
Oct
08
2015
JetBlue has opened a farm at JFK airport. But it’s too small to actually grow anything useful for the airline. Instead it’s “meant to educate travelers more than actually feed them.”
The farm isn’t even open to the public although pending future regulatory approval they hope to have programs for students, and possibly allow frequent flyers to sign up to visit.
An American Flight Attendant Leaves Secret Notes at Passenger Window Seats
Oct
08
2015
A DC-based flight attendant tapes notes to the windows on flights she’s working.
Taylor Tippett and has started garnering media attention, because I suspect a little bit of inspiration while we’re flying in a metal tube really resonates with people.
A Trick to Scoring Discounts on Hotels, My Biggest Travel Mistake Ever, and Retrofits the Pope Needed for His Plane
Oct
07
2015
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Marriott Rewards Confirms Four Program Changes
Oct
07
2015
On Monday I wrote about four changes coming to Marriott Rewards. The public announcement of these changes is coming next week. But they’ve gone ahead and confirmed them on the Marriott Insiders website.
The New “Being John Malkovich” Airbus Seating Configuration Could Put Passengers Above Your Head
Oct
07
2015
Airbus filed a patent last week for a seating design that has passengers sitting on top of each other. Will that become the new hell of travel?
How Donald Trump Bought – and Lost – an Airline
Oct
07
2015
The Eastern Airlines Shuttle concept began with no advance tickets and no check-in even. If you showed up for a flight, you were promised a seat. By 1988, Eastern was in trouble and Donald Trump picked up their Northeast Shuttle from that carrier’s bankruptcy.
Though he tried a year later to leverage his small carrier to acquire American Airlines, his foray into the airline industry lasted only three years. The Trump Shuttle is now the US Airways Shuttle and itself adopts the American Airlines brand October 17.
What’s In Your Boarding Pass Barcode, and Should You Be Worried About It?
Oct
07
2015
Krebs on Security looks at all the scary personal information contained in your boarding pass and recommends “[t]he next time you’re thinking of throwing away a used boarding pass with a barcode on it, consider tossing the boarding pass into a document shredder instead.”
My advice might be different, to just use a mobile boarding pass and then there’s no need for a shredder. But I don’t actually think the barcode is the problem here.
New United Clubs and How One Airline Makes Business Decisions
Oct
06
2015
The most important stories of the day. I keep you up to date on the most interesting writings I find on other sites – the latest news and tips.
One Blog Reader Wins a 3 Night Terrace Suite Stay in New York!
Oct
06
2015
Luxury Travel Diary, a high-end travel blog with great reviews based in the UK, has a bunch of travel auctions — some about to close, others extend into October — and there look to be some real bargains.
They wanted to highlight some of these, and offered to help organize a giveaway of a 3 night hotel stay in a suite at a top property in New York for readers of this blog. I suppose that folks who already know about these auctions don’t like this added attention, because frankly there aren’t enough bidders relative to the value of the offerings and some of these items go too cheap.
