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31/1/2010 – Its 2:00am Do You Know Where NWA.com Is? At 1:56am this morning I clicked on NWA.com to take a final look at Northwest Airlines’ website, when I hit the reload button five minutes later at 2:01am the site was no longer there, redirecting me to Delta.com. As Delta.com appeared on my screen all [...]

28/1/2010 – Reader Mail : “What the heck is a mileage run?” Sometimes I wish I received more reader mail with questions I could answer on Flying With Fish, rather than very specific questions better answered in an e-mail response. Yesterday evening glancing at my BlackBerry I read this simple e-mail headline “What the heck [...]

27/1/2010 – IRS States That Excess Baggage Fees Are Not Taxable I know, when most people think of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and big corporate airlines arguing over a 7.5% excise tax the first thought that comes to mind is “who cares?”…but to airlines, the 7.5% is a considerable amount of money. Recently [...]

22/1/2010 – Happy 40th Birthday To The Boeing 747 Forty years ago today history was made as the iconic Boeing 747 took to the skies for its first revenue passenger flight. While Pan Am had intended for the first Boeing 747 revenue passenger flight to be on the 21st of January, an engine overheating delayed [...]

21/1/2010 – iPhone App of the Week : The Boarding Pass An informed traveller is a better traveller…from choosing an airline to choosing a connection hub airports, the more you know the better off you are. While all user opinion websites, message boards and iPhone Apps are subjective; they are still a valuable resource for [...]

20/1/2010 – Southers Withdraws From TSA Nomination : The TSA’s Saga For A Leader Continues The Transportation Security Administration has been without a permanent leader since the start of the President Obama’s term a year ago.  Since the creation of the TSA a mere 8 years ago, the agency has been lead by four Administrators [...]

20/1/2010 – The Long Haul Netbook : EeePC’s 1005HA Have you ever boarded a flight from New York to Paris and wished you could watch the entire Jason Bourne Trilogy of movies on your laptop … ummm … I mean do you wish you could work from wheels up to wheels down on the flight? [...]

19/1/2010 – Canada-to-US Flights Allow Carry On Baggage Again For photographers today’s very poorly publicized announcement from Transport Canada should allow many to exhale with a sigh of relief. Beginning tomorrow, the 20th of January, passengers flying from Canada to the United States may board their flights with a full size carry on bag, measuring [...]

19/1/2010 – So…I Got A Phone Call From The US Congress… Last week while heading out to pick my kids up at the bus stop I receive an unexpected phone call. Of course given that I never expected two Federal Agents to show up at my door one evening, nothing should phase me, but this [...]

18/1/2010 – Fish’s Top Five iPhone Apps for Travel If I had a dollar for every time I was asked “What are your top five iPhone Apps” … well I’d have an iPhone 3Gs instead of an iPhone 3G. Choosing my top five favourite travel apps for the iPhone was a series of difficult choices. [...]