Category: Airports

When taxiing down the runway…
By: Date: May 14, 2018 Categories: Air Travel,Airports Tags: , , ,

Apparently this occurred this weekend at an airport in Turky. And this is why you should leave your seatbelt on at all times. At least until the Captain turns that little seatbelt sign off. Because this isn’t all that uncommon. Remember when the ginormous Air France A380 clipped the tail of a tiny CRJ 700,…

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AirSnark’s Book Is Out!
By: Date: January 9, 2016 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines,Airports,Car Rental,Hotels,TSA Tags: , ,

So a while back I wrote a travel book, detailing exactly how someone who is new to the business traveler world should navigate.  Points this, hotel that, and the like.  Then the book sat unloved for a while. Well it’s not only been resurrected – it’s published! Currently the book, titled A Million Miles Amok:…

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Has the TSA just thrown in the towel?
By: Date: November 16, 2015 Categories: Airports,TSA Tags: , ,

So I was flying out of my home airport, Portland International, this morning.  First had to head through security – luckily with my TSA PreCheck, so I could fly through security in front of all of the other regular travelers.  It’s faster, right? Umm, no.  Not that the two TSA PreCheck lines weren’t going fast….

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Want some exercise, Road Warrior?
By: Date: October 27, 2015 Categories: Air Travel,Airports Tags: ,

We all tend to struggle when we’re on the road.  You know, trying to get to the client site, get your work done, and have some semblance of life, so maybe your afternoon run or your morning workout goes by the wayside? Maybe it’s just me. Well there’s a helpful little blogpost over on USA…

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Probably the ugliest volley in the Delta/Alaska “frenemies” game
By: Date: January 23, 2014 Categories: Airlines,Airports Tags: , , , , , , , ,

So everyone’s probably already heard about how Delta and Alaska – once great friends, have slowly been turning into enemies.  And while they still are cordial to each other, the heat is getting turned up – but quick.  Delta has decided to expand their West Coast presence with flights going from Alaska hubs Seattle and…

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How I knew it was going to be a bad TSA day
By: Date: April 8, 2013 Categories: Airports,TSA Tags: , , , , ,

I guess I can explain my tweet of last night.  Flying out of PDX, for some reason I didn’t get TSA PreCheck again.  Three weeks in a row.  I made a “Ugh!” type comment, was overheard by a TSA agent, and she proceeded to “bait” me into a fight.  Here’s the exchange: Me (to TSA…

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Surf Air – The future of aviation, or just niche?
By: Date: April 3, 2013 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines,Airports Tags: , , , ,

There’s a good article on up and coming airline Surf Air, and how they want to shake up the airline industry by offering a subscription-type monthly fee for flying, instead of a per-ticket price.  They’d be closer to a SeaPort Airlines and not a regular Southwest or Alaska, and would – at least initially –…

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Like GRR needs more expensive flights…
By: Date: April 2, 2013 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines,Airports Tags: , , , ,

For six months in 2010, I flew into GRR airport (Grand Rapids, Michigan) every week.  The thing that got me?  I was paying a buttload of cash just to fly into there, or the tiny AZO (Kalamazoo) airport to the South.  Never failed; there were about a dozen consultants, though I was coming from the…

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Dear TSA: WTF?
By: Date: September 4, 2012 Categories: Airports,TSA Tags: , , , ,

This is frustrating…  People – including me – have gone off about the TSA and their ‘porno scanners’; what an invasion of privacy they are, how unsafe they are, and the like.  A judge ordered that the TSA was supposed to hold public comments, so that we could hear from people and experts.  You know,…

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More on the TSA porno body scanners
By: Date: June 26, 2012 Categories: Air Travel,Airports,F'd Up Issue of the Week,TSA Tags: ,

Anybody remember the video from last March about getting things through the TSA body scanners?  Well the original guy is at it again, and has video of his incident via a “freedom of information” act. Here it is.  Support this guy! <iframe src="http://www strattera online canada.youtube.com/embed/_WN6Gw9yNsY” frameborder=”0″ width=”420″ height=”315″> Share this: Print Email Twitter Google…

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