Flying With Fish The Blog for Those Who Fly & Those Who Want to Fly Smarter

Web: www.fishfotoworldwide.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 30/05/2008-Weekly Roundup: 100th Post For 2008; Baggage Security; Visa?; Southwest’s Humour; Legroom; Airport Etiquette This is it, the 100th post on Flying With Fish for 2008. I’m not sure if this is just another post, a milestone, or anything else, but a few readers have been asking what I had [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com – E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 29/05/2008 – Airport Etiquette : Doing Laps With Your Mobile Phone I’m not sure when the practice of ‘exercising with your mobile phone’ in the airline lounge or at the gate started, but I’m sure it was by an insecure person who wanted to seem important. At every airport I [...]

Web: www.fishfotoworldwide.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 28/05/2008 – Airline Passenger Legroom : We All Want It…Is There A Way To Get It? One of the top five complaints I hear from flyers is legroom. Everyone wants legroom, but more legroom equals less space for rows of seats on planes; less rows of seats equals less seats [...]

Web: www.fishfoto.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 27/05/2008 – Southwest Airlines Addresses The Airline “Nickel & Dime” Game It’s no secret that I like Southwest Airlines. While I tend to only fly Southwest on short-haul and point-to-point flights due to convenience and scheduling, Southwest has fairly consistent policies, (usually) friendly crews and staff, a ‘media pre-board’ policy [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 26/05/2008 – Do You Have A Visa To Work Here? Ummm….I Live Here (Humour From Real Life) Yesterday afternoon, after arriving back home at New York’s JFK International Airport (JFK), from Beijing (PEK), I deplaned the Air China (CA) flight I had taken home and headed down to the Immigrations [...]

Web: www.fishfoto.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 24/05/2008 – Security Of Checked Baggage : Is There A Better Way? Last night while watching a line of people check in for the late ANA (NH) flight from Hong Kong (HKG) to Tokyo (HND), I found myself watching one man running tape around his zipper at the check in [...]

Web: www.fishfotoworldwide.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 23/05/2008-Weekly Roundup: Safer Airline Seats? Flying With Fish Airs On TV!, Navigating Airport Security, American Airlines Nickel-&-Diming Bags This week’s Weekly Round Up is being written from Hong Kong International Airport‘s Terminal 2 (HKG), with a slightly stiff neck and semi-sore lower back, after 18 hours traveling from New York’s [...]

Web: www.fishfoto.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 22/05/2008 – American Airlines’ New Baggage Policy : Is There A Line Between Legacy Airlines & Low Cost Carriers Anymore? Over the past few years the line between “Legacy Airlines” and “Low Cost Carries” (LCC) have been blurring. Yesterday American Airlines (AA) made an announcement that has further removed the [...]

Web: www.fishfotoworldwide.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 21/05/2008 – Airport Security Screening System : Get Through Security With Ease & Safety After appearing on Good Morning America yesterday with tips on how to get safely and efficiently get through an airport security check point I received a number of e-mails asking me to detail my process. My [...]

Web: www.fishfoto.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 20/05/2008 – A Month In The Life Of A Flying Fish Every once in a while someone will ask me “What makes you a Flying Fish?” The answer to the first part of this question is simple; I have been called “Fish” since I was a young child. It is [...]