What customer loyalty gets you (or why AVIS sucks)
walterh Okay, this is frustrating. Hotel loyalty, and you get the best rooms. Airline loyalty, and you get free upgrades and frequent flyer miles. But car rental loyalty? Here’s what 7+…
You want to know why I fly Southwest as little as possible?
Read this. It’s a story on Today in the Sky about a short & thin woman who paid full fare to fly standby on Southwest, from Vegas to Sacramento. She…
There HAS to be a story here!
I HAVE to find the story about this. An Alaska Airlines B737-800 at PDX with one of the emergency exit doors popped. Has to be on purpose, though, because there’s…
Another special plane
Forgot to post this last Thursday. President Obama landed in Grand Rapids about an hour before I took off. Curiously enough, security wasn’t bad. You can’t make it out much,…
SAFER?
Senator Bennet (R-UT) introduced something called SAFER AIR Act, which mandates full body scanners in every US airport by 2013. Fully body RADIATION scanners. These things are NOT safe. One…
A whole new way to lose your luggage
Okay, so there have been some bonehead business ideas. The Microsoft “Kin” phone, which was supposed to be an iPhone killer, but lasted all of about 4 weeks. When Dell…
Almost nose to nose
Almost nose to nose here at the N terminal at SeaTac. What a big, beautiful girl, despite the livery.
BLAH! I say to ground based internet service!
Okay, so we’re going SEA -> ORD. That route TYPICALLY takes us over the United States. I mean it’s not like we’re detouring over the Yukon Territories or anything. So…
Tarmacs
I love taking smaller regional carrier for one reason – the ability to take pictures of aircraft from the tarmac!
Beating a dead horse
In between my real job, I was catching up on headlines for the airlines today. There’s a new one out there on Alaska Airlines, talking about capacity, outlook, etc. Something…