Trip Reports
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Flying the Friendly Seas on Kenmore (Trip Report)
I’ve already told you about my big, fancy jet flights on Alaska, but if you need a runway, you aren’t doing real…
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A Taste of Elite Status on Alaska (Trip Report)
With my daughter at camp for two weeks and my son on an adventure with my parents, my wife and I had…
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Earning Back the Cost of Alaska’s Premium Class (Trip Report)
The day I was flying up to San Francisco, Alaska had a total of 108 flights solely-within California on 15 distinct routes.…
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Stunning Scenery Flying Alaska To Santa Rosa… But Also Delays (Trip Report)
Every year, I try to gather with a group of friends from grad school. We usually do it in Vegas, but I…
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Starlink and Other Tales From Flying on Hawaiian (Trip Report)
Three days in Waikiki is not particularly relaxing. It’s fun, but it’s a city, and we wanted at least part of spring…
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A Not-So-Ancient Delta 767 Gets Us to Honolulu With a Little Delay (Trip Report)
Spring break in Hawaiʻi. It sounded glorious, but then again, most of our spring break trips do until we inevitably have to…
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Flying Frontier is Perfectly Good… Except for That Seat (Trip Report)
It had been nearly a decade since I last flew Frontier, so I was excited to see that the airline had a…
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A Bumpy Start to My Alaska Elite Status Journey (Trip Report)
I received an invite to a United event at SFO, and my curiosity was piqued. It was advertised this way: “Join CEO…
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A Retro United Ride Back Home From Chicago (Trip Report)
When we last left off, I had enjoyed my retro Continental experience for my trip to Chicago where I spoke at United’s…
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A Retro Continental Ride to Chicago (Trip Report)
United asked me to come speak at its commercial leadership team event in Chicago earlier this month. While Iʻm normally skeptical about…
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Getting to Southwest Investor Day… on American (Trip Report)
Analysts and media had circled September 26 on their calendars for a long time. That was the day that Southwest would present…
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Hawaiian Needed Three Airplanes to Get Me Home (Trip Report)
This was supposed to be a nice and easy flight home from Honolulu after a great trip. I had been sitting on…