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

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 22/04/2009 – Who Can Make An International Airline Awards Show Fun and Lighthearted? Fish Can! Tomorrow night, the 23rd of April 2009 the dingy red carpet (probably snagged from an airline’s ‘elite boarding line’ while no one was looking) will be rolled out at Fort Lauderdale International Airport’s Hilton Hotel [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 22/04/2009 – Its Earth Day…Do You Know Your Travel Carbon Footprint? Happy Earth Day! I know that every day should be Earth Day, but one day each year we stop and actually think about saving this 3rd Rock From The Sun that we live on. As travellers we often have [...]

Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 21/04/2009 – Airlines That Embrace Twitter & Why It Can Be A Valuable Tool For Them –DUE TO THE NUMBERS ON TWITTER CHANGING CONSTANTLY ALL INFORMATION IS VALID AS OF 12:04PM EST (GMT -5) ON 22-APRIL-2009– With airlines continuing to lose money, the global economy in decline and competition for [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 17/04/2009 – The TSA Adds Flying Fish To Its Blog…The Feds Follow Fish, Do You? As of yesterday the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Blog listed only eight blogs that were not U.S. Government blogs on its blogroll. This afternoon the TSA’s blog added a 9th non-U.S. Government blog to its [...]

Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 17/04/2009 – The Pelican 1514 Case, Would You Throw It Off Your House? I Would! Yesterday after I posted an entry about testing the durability of the Pelican 1514 case by running over it with a Chevy 1500 series pickup, which you can read here, 16/04/2009 – The Pelican 1514 [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 16/04/2009 – iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : My Gate Now How many flights have you been on where the cabin crew announces connecting flights only to not announce your connecting?  This is increasingly frustrating when you have a tight connection, or the gate has been changed. Over the past [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 16/04/2009 – The Pelican 1514 Case, Would You Drive A Truck Over It? I Would! I have frequently been asked about the durability of traveling with my Pelican 1514 case over the past few years. These questions come from not only having discussed this case on Flying With Fish, but [...]

Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 15/04/2009 – United Airlines Institutes Two-Seat Requirement For “Customers Of Size” United Airlines appears to be following the lead of Southwest Airlines in regard to seating accommodations for passengers who cannot comfortably sit in a single seat. While United instituted the “Passengers Requiring Extra Space” policy on the 4th of [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 15/04/2009 – The Pelican 1514 Case : A Bag You Can Check Under The Plane & Know Your Gear Is Safe In Few travel cases can withstand the significant abuse of hard travel. The limitations of most bags and cases become more prevalent for photographers due to traveling with not [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 15/04/2009 – The Passenger Experience Can Create Friendly Skies Or Unfriendly Skies This morning I found an interesting story on The Consumerist, by way of a fantastic airline industry blog Shashank Nigam’s SimpliFlying (www.simpliflying.com). This story details how a woman and her boyfriend were trying to catch a United Airlines [...]