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Steven Frischling
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Steven Frischling, aka: Fish, is globe hopping professional photographer, airline emerging media consultant working with large global airlines and founder of The Travel Strategist. Fish has racked up more than 1,000,000 miles since he started to track his mileage in 2005.

Fish's travel tends to be less than leisurely, including flying from New York to Basrah, Iraq, for six hours; Hong Kong for eight hours, Kuwait City for two hours and traveling around the world in 3.5 days to shoot a series of photo assignments in 4 cities and 4 countries on 3 separate continents.

Fish grew up at the end of New York's JFK International Airport's Runway 4R/22L, which probably explains his enjoyment of watching planes, fly overhead. When not shooting photos or traveling Fish designs camera bags, hones is expertise on airline security and spends his time at home cheering for the Red Sox with his 3 kids 102 yards from the ocean.

One Year Ago Today The World’s Largest Airline Was Created

10.29.2009 | Author: flyingfish | Posted in Uncategorized

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29/10/2009 – One Year Ago Today The World’s Largest Airline Was Created

This week the landscape of US airlines changed, as did international airline alliances, and this change was cemented a year ago today.  One year ago today the United States Department of Justice approved the purchase of Northwest Airlines by Delta Air Lines.

With the merger of Delta and Northwest the world’s largest airline was created, Delta’s new route map was being formed and Continental Airlines was being squeezed out of its long time relationship with Delta and the SkyTeam alliance member airlines.

In the past year we’ve seen former Northwest Airlines 747-400s, A330s, A320s and DC-9s take on Delta paint schemes, watched Pepsi be switched to Coke on former Northwest routes and in one day saw virtually all the signs of Northwest Airlines disappear from Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)…oddly enough if you look around MSP you can still find signs of the former Republic Airlines whom Northwest Airlines bought out and merged with in 1986.

In this past we’ve watched Delta shift from simply a large global airline to working its way into the role of “The New Pan Am” (although no airline can replace the Pan Am).

Happy Flying!

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