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Man Detained by TSA for Arabic Writing on T-Shirt

August 13, 2007

I was tipped off to this ACLU article by T-Critic, whom I have a daily subscription to and always enjoy seeing the new T-Shirt designs. Did you know that wearing a t-shirt with Arabic writing to an airport is the equivalent of a “person wearing a t-shirt at a bank stating, ‘I am a robber’”? [...]

Air Travel is Getting More and More Pathetic

July 27, 2007

I’ve been talking about how crappy airline service has become lately, and I just read this article from the Wharton School which I thought I’d share: Wharton professor Serguei Netessine’s trip from Philadelphia to Dallas in May was an all-too-typical day in the sky. After circling Dallas for an hour because of stormy weather, his [...]

Travel Tip: Faster Gold or Platinum Status With American Airlines

July 21, 2007

Everyone is aware of American Airlines and most other carriers elite status levels. These are the people who are invited to board the planes first, get free upgrades, and even get the best seats in the first few rows of the economy seating section (you might not have known that). Normally in order to achieve [...]

9 Rules for Air Travel (This Means You!)

June 24, 2007

I travel. A lot! What’s a lot? Well, in the last 8 weeks I’ve been on 20 different airplanes. (And I’m writing this while waiting for a flight now…) And you know what I’m sick of even more than the overpriced airlines and late arrivals? The other passengers. I’ve developed the following list of rules [...]

Kayak’s Buzz – the Best Flight Deal Finder

January 30, 2007

As previously mentioned, I’ve been using Kayak for travel planning for some time now, but I actually just discovered a new feature that is one of, if not the, best tools I’ve yet seen for helping to plan vacations that involve air travel. The Kayak Buzz section offers a very cool, Google Map enabled shopping [...]

The TSA is Going to Photograph You Naked!!!

December 14, 2006
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Wow.This is not a joke! The US Transportation Security Agency has already installed a machine in the Phoenix airport that literally sees through 100% of your clothes down to your bare skin and can display high resolution images of you in all your naked glory. Assuming that all goes well with the initial run of [...]

Tips for Volunteering to be Bumped from Flights

December 8, 2006

The holiday travel season is upon us, so the airlines will be overbooking flights like no other time of year. Add to that the unpredictability of weather this time of year and you’ve got both a recipe for disaster and for opportunity. As a former VP of Sales, it’s fair to say I did a [...]

Track Your Travel Awards Off-line

October 3, 2006

There are several sites out there that are designed to help keep track of your travel rewards programs (Points.com, AwardWallet.com, etc.). However, there is also some free software which might work better for folks who prefer to keep all of that personal information on their own laptop as opposed to some site out on the [...]

UK plane diverted after ‘bomb’ note

August 18, 2006

I don’t mean for this to sound insensitive, but… Great! Now every moron who decides to scribble a bomb threat on a napkin and leave it on a plane can ensure that the aviation industry cowers to their prank.

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