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

Have you ever wondered who the most trusted sources in online travel information were?  Well now you have a chance to cast your vote for your choice. The list of potential candidates for the most trusted person in online travel is long. Among your potential choices are Steve Hafner, CEO of Kayak; Henry Harteveldt of [...]

Last week the California Supreme Court handed down an interesting ruling, one that expressly allowed Los Angeles International Airport, more commonly known as LAX, to ban the Hare Krishnas from their airport. Hare Krishnas are well known at many airports. If you fly domestically into LAX you may not see the Hare Krishnas very often, [...]

Last week Flying With Fish announced its readers could win an all expenses paid trip for two to Australia from BoardingArea and American Express in this post: Want To Win An All Expenses Paid Trip To Australia? ENTER HERE! On Monday morning using Random.org a winner from Flying With Fish was selected and sent along [...]

Most posts on Flying With Fish require a lot of words … this one really doesn’t. In short Southwest Airlines released its “Battle Cry” television commercial that features a plane with its livery blurred out … it happened to be an AirTran Boeing 717. Today AirTran released an “Udderly Hysterical Video,” stating that they were [...]

Math just isn’t my strong suit most days; in fact I’m pretty sure the calculator was invested for me at times. On the road, at home, out for dinner by your self or dinning with a group of colleagues figuring out a tip should be quick and simple.  This week’s iPhone App of the Week [...]

This week’s reader mail comes from someone just starting to navigate their way through airline frequent flyer programs.   Gerry from DFW asks “I have started to travel frequently for work which has lead me to start reading FlyerTalk. I see many references to mileage an segment runs, what is the difference?” Gerry … first off [...]

This blog entry is a quick update of this post earlier today – Once Again Unite The Union Gets The Facts Wrong Regarding The British Airways Strike This update is a break down of some of Unite The Union’s statements now with hard numbers compiled independently of Unite The Union and British Airways. British Airways [...]

A few weeks ago Boarding Area & Hilton Hotels allowed the Boarding Area bloggers to each give away a free night any Hilton in the United States. Well apparently that was so much fun, Boarding Area has now teamed up with American Express to give away something even better… …what could be better than a [...]

Following yesterday’s break down of Unite The Union’s stream of blatant factual errors, I had hoped to see a follow up press release from Unite The Union rooted in fact, with verifiable details. Unfortunately yesterday evening Unite The Union released its press release for Day Two of the British Airways labour strike, it and it [...]

Yesterday Unite The Union, the trade union representing British Airways’ cabin crew, began the first stage of a two-part seven-day strike against the airline.   While I am not going to delve into the politics of the strike, I do want to address the significant misinformation and massively factually incorrect press releases issued by Unite The [...]