F’d Up Travel Story of the past week – 04/17/10
By: Date: April 19, 2010 Categories: Air Travel

Does it come to anyone’s surprise that the F’d up travel story of the week is the Icelandic Volcano?  I mean, this thing has been wreaking havoc with air travel, albeit air travel from most of the European continent, and travel to/from the United States.  Thankfully, there is little fallout – if any – for…

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Nice work, TSA. Confuse the public, like usual
By: Date: April 14, 2010 Categories: Air Travel Tags: , ,

OMFG.  Like piss-seat wheelchair Grannie isn’t already confused enough, but the TSA has to go through and confuse people even more.  What else is new? So the Apple iPad has been acquired by quite a few people, and they’re showing up in people’s bags for travel.  People already don’t know how to deal with their…

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Just fitting for AirSnark – Survey of the 11 worst airlines
By: Date: April 13, 2010 Categories: Air Travel Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Oh, what a snarky way to start the morning.  Huffington Post has put together a survey of “America’s 11 Worst Airlines” based on the 2010 Airline Quality Ratings.  The authors of the study do state that airline service has gotten better over the last year.  Here’s my take on the listings: #11, US Airways: I…

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Are all mainstream airlines run by morons?
By: Date: April 12, 2010 Categories: Air Travel Tags: , , , , , , ,

That’s what I think, especially when it comes to the “flying standby” thing.  Let me lay the groundwork here. First, there was 9/11, and nobody wanted to fly.  Airlines parked planes in the desert.  Then more economic downturns, and again, more planes parked in the desert.  Things were steady for a little while, and then…

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Leveling the playing field
By: Date: April 12, 2010 Categories: F'd Up Issue of the Week Tags: , , , , ,

So we’re going to hit a new feature here called “F’d Up Issue of the Week”, and will be honoring some sort of travel related news story *the* most fucked up in all of traveldom.  But before we can start looking at this week, I want to honor three exceptionally stupid things that travel companies…

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To the douchebag in the Portland airport yesterday
By: Date: April 12, 2010 Categories: Airports Tags: , , , , , , ,

Okay, so there’s a few Portland Airports, and there’s more than a few douchebags in each one.  This one was behind me in the TSA security line yesterday, and held the rank of Captain of one of the larger airlines. Seems the TSA got a little crazy at the ABC security checkpoint, and was sending…

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What if there was a security breach at an airport, but TSA didn’t care?
By: Date: April 8, 2010 Categories: Air Travel,Airports Tags: , , , ,

Just happened right in front of me here at GRR (Grand Rapids Airport). Interesting.  Actually, not interesting.  Maddening is more like it. Me: Um, there’s a guy that just walked up the “exit only” area. TSA Agent: I wouldn’t worry about it. Probably just one of us. Me: No, he had a bag. He’s a…

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Welcome to Air Snark!
By: Date: April 8, 2010 Categories: Air Travel Tags: , ,

I started Air Snark after a liveblogging a flight from ATL to PDX. Man, that was a lot of fun! Mostly. Ugly naked husband video chat from the lady sitting next to me, political blogging from my seat, and workerbees continuing their office work – all from 42,000 feet. Share this: Print Email Twitter Google…

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