I am just planning a number of trips in the next few months (couple of Coast to Coasttrips and one to Europe and South America respectively) and given how much of an airline geek I am, I thought I would share some of the tools I use and blogs I read with my readers. I [...]
According to Airline Biz, Boing Boing TV has partnered with Virgin America to provide:
“cheeky exploration of the world through Internet culture, DIY technology and geeky curiosities” through inflight daily video reports with the same irreverent and eclectic content that has struck a cord with pop culture junkies on BoingBoing.net.
Sounds like a good idea, given that [...]
As somebody who travels quite frequently, this article in the New York Times makes me anything but happy:
Meanwhile, nearly every major carrier has done away with free onboard
meals in coach on domestic flights, and has instead begun to charge for
individual food and drink items, often at hotel minibar prices. Earlier
this year, American Airlines, for example, [...]
Just saw Doc Searls talking about Flightaware. Flightaware is a great tool for tracking flights (especially those in flight already). Whenever I sit at the airport, I will check on the progress of the plane coming in to whisk me off to the other side of the country (through this, I have found out that [...]
Continental Airlines was to upgrade its homepage yesterday with a fresher looking design. Instead, this upgrade is turning out to be a disaster. Frequent flyers on flyertalk.com (one of the biggest forums for frequent flyers) are reporting that they are seeing other people’s reservations in their accounts, with the ability to change seats or even [...]
Google keeps adding new features. CNet reports that one can now type in two different airport codes and the search then returns a box to enter dates and the option to search Expedia, Hotwire and Orbitz. Would be nice if they added Kajak or Mobissimo to the mix, but an interesting new function nevertheless.
Update: You [...]
My home airport tends to see a lot of people who get arrested while smuggling drugs into Europe. Usually, they are already living a sad existence before they get there. Now a fire broke out in a prison on the airport.
Ten die in Amsterdam airport fireSchiphol airport
Schiphol is the main airhub of the Netherlands. At [...]
