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Comfort Animals
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I’ve had enough talking about delays, let’s move on to something else today. There was a story that came out the other day about a guy who recently smuggled a monkey from Peru to New…
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Virgin America Takes Off . . . Late
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Current events have really helped me stick with the “delay” theme this week. As most people know, Virgin America’s first flights take off today. The plan was to have a flight from JFK and another…
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Reading for Those Who Think It’s So Easy
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“Why can’t they just let me off the plane? Just find a gate and let us off. How hard is that?” -said by 99% of those stuck on a plane on the ground for a…
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JFK Sucks
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Yesterday was a beautiful day in LA with just a bit of marine layer rolling in at the beaches. A little low cloud may cause delays up in San Francisco but it rarely does down…
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Northwest Finally Figures it Out
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It took them a long time, but Northwest finally figured it out. Blaming your employees for your problems does NOT garner customer support. As you’ve probably heard (especially if you live in the upper Midwest),…
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Excise Taxes vs. User Fees
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I know, I know. The subject does not exactly spark visions of enjoyment, but trust me, this is interesting, because it impacts how much you’ll pay when you fly. It’s that time again where the…
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Allegiant Plans Its Big Expansion in Phoenix and Ft Lauderdale
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Yesterday, the East Valley (that’d be Mesa/Chandler/Gilbert/Tempe – east of Phoenix) was jumping with joy after learning that their long-suffering airport, STBPMGA (that’s Soon-To-Be Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport), would become Allegiant’s fourth base after Las Vegas,…
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Delta’s SiteSeer Challenge
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Remember Delta’s SiteSeer? It’s been pretty quiet since they first launched the travel video site that I posted about here. Now they’ve come up with a pretty clever promotion to help build traffic to the…
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Brazil’s Blame Game
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Flash back to last year. In the days following the midair collision of the Gol 737 with an Embraer jet, there was a great deal of backlash within Brazil. The country was quick was to…
