Tag: Airlines

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 Unscientific Guide To Ranking The Airlines!
By: Date: October 6, 2014 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines Tags: ,

So my shitty experiences on Delta, and some rather shaky/scary experiences on Skywest (“This is your Captain speaking. I’m sorry about the delay, but when we landed, a piece fell off of the airplane.  We had to find it and figure out what piece it was before we could fix it.”), I’ve decided to put…

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Who will make the next move in the Alaska Airlines vs Delta frenemies shuffle?
By: Date: March 25, 2014 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines Tags: , , , ,

So there’s been a bunch of new developments along the lines of Alaska Airlines and their partner Delta.  When Delta started expanding into Alaska’s territories, things got bad.  Alaska started to retaliate, with some pretty bold moves into Salt Lake City, going from service just from Seattle to nearly every big airport in the West….

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THIS headline absolutely pisses me off
By: Date: July 11, 2013 Categories: Airlines,F'd Up Issue of the Week Tags: , , ,

So I’ve got a Google keyword search that sends me a daily digest of the comings & goings of the Airline industry – the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Well today can be safely thrown into the “ugly” category.  Seriously. BusinessWeek.com’s website screamed this today: Asiana’s San Francisco Plane Crash Seen Pushing Airline to…

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“Pay As You Weigh” is finally starting – in Samoa
By: Date: April 2, 2013 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines Tags: , , , ,

Samoa Air, the small airline that flies small aircraft between places in Samoa, American Samoa, French Polynesia, and other island nations, is the first airline to start a “pay as you weigh” scheme.  Does it make sense?  The airline thinks it does. When I think of Samoa, I think of people like Dwane “The Rock”…

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Scoop, or Bad Writing?
By: Date: July 11, 2012 Categories: Airlines Tags: , , , ,

Okay, so we all know that American Airlines is looking to merge with another carrier – possibly – if the deal is right, and American comes out on top.  Immediately the pundits, including me, started talking about the possibilities. But I’m startled by something.  There’s one source that I’ve found (after an admittedly short search) that…

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Now THIS is monumentally stupid
By: Date: June 25, 2012 Categories: Airlines,F'd Up Issue of the Week Tags: , , ,

One of my regular blogs is USA Today’s “Today In The Sky” column by Ben Mutzabaugh; I check it a few times a day.  Today’s lead-off story is how a flier complained about having to sit next to a corpse for an overnight flight, and got a partial refund from the airline. My complaint?  If,…

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Paying Our Respects
By: Date: June 24, 2012 Categories: F'd Up Issue of the Week Tags: , , , , , , ,

I originally posted something similar to this over at CatastropheCast.com, but thought it should go here as well… I’m not only a regular business traveler, but I’m an airline geek as well.  I have been my whole life; when other 7 or 8 year olds wanted to be astronauts and firemen, I wanted to be…

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Cover me: I’m about to say something nice about the TSA
By: Date: June 23, 2012 Categories: Air Travel,Airports Tags: , , , , , , , ,

It’s not often that I say something nice about the Transportation Safety Administration.  Their usual treatment of individuals is pretty horrid; and I should know since I travel every week.  But I just recently became part of the TSA Pre✓™ program – and it’s glorious. Here in Portland, Oregon, our local airport has joined the TSA Pre✓™…

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HRC Rankings of Airlines, Hotels, etc. and a Word about United
By: Date: November 28, 2011 Categories: Air Travel,Airlines Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

For those of you that aren’t familiar, HRC stands for The Human Rights Campaign, which is the leading LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) rights organization.  Okay, so you’re not part of the LGBT community.  That’s fine.  There’s 10% of the population that is, and there are people who will often choose organizations based on their…

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