We have all seen the newspaper photos and television coverage - practically every Thanksgiving and Christmas travellers get stranded at airports usually because of bad weather. The airlines can’t control the weather, so nobody gets food or hotel vouchers in those cases. Everybody tries to get cosy wherever they can.
Flight cancelations caused by the airline […]
The news is full of stories these days about the effects of high gasoline prices:
People are buying fewer cars, especially trucks and large SUVs;
People are driving less;
Flight prices are increasing;
The price of consumer goods is increasing as companies pass on rising costs for transportation and production.
What I want to know is: Are companies cutting back […]
Chicago O’Hare International Airport was ranked worst in delays, as reported by Forbes Magazine in an article titled “America’s Most Time-Draining Airports”.
If flight delays are getting to you, you could buy delay insurance from American Express. If your flight is delayed, you get paid between $100 to $250. Sounds great, right? You are late for […]
Earlier this week I wrote about one of the things the US has been doing (or at least thinking about doing) to discourage travel to this country. Obviously, one of the biggest disincentives to travelling to the US is the whole border experience, even for citizens. It’s even more complicated for many of those who […]
The recent announcement from TSA and major laptop bag companies like Targus sounds promising: a new “checkpoint friendly” laptop case which will zip us through airport security without removing the laptop from the bag.
The goal: build a bag with no fasteners or pockets (too much clutter) which impede the X-ray equipment. If TSA can fully […]
Today I installed a new printer at home. Every few years you just have to succomb to the hardware industry and risk your entire electronic life by installing drivers, applications and who-knows-what onto your PC which will impact some obscure settings or favorites. This time, the Firefox browser was hit and no longer responds. (This […]
As if eating out in France wasn’t difficult enough, visitors need to be aware of an additional culinary peril: horse meat is coming back into style.
The high price of beef is the cause of the increase in horse meat sales; in France alone, sales are up 6% to 25,000 metric tons. (US consumption: 0.)
Besides France, […]
And I thought airlines couldn’t come up with additional ways to discourage travelers from flying … How could I have doubted them!
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Apparently I’m not the only one who doesn’t understand the airlines. Check out this post from Flyawaycafe for more on fees and the overall stupidity of the airlines. It seems the airlines have never really figured out what to do since the dissolution of the CAB back in the 1970s - since then, those which […]
While we’re on the subject of airfares, I have to comment about the latest, dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of in my entire life. Having grown up in the travel industry, I’ve grown up with the idea that the airlines do strange and incomprehensible things. The new nickel-and-dime-you-to-death strategy is the worst ever. In case […]
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