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

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 28/03/2009 – Checked Baggage Fees : Will They Go Away? Can You Avoid Them? Checked baggage fees have been a hot topic over the past year and I receive quite a few e-mails asking when I think the fees will be removed and how to avoid the fees. First off, [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 24/03/2009 – How Can Guns Get Stolen From Check Baggage & Go Unnoticed? Last week it was reported that law enforcement has busted a theft rings at St. Louis’ Lambert International Airport (STL).  This theft ring was made up of a handful of contractors working for Delta Airlines, and as [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 13/03/2009 – Getting Overweight Carry-On Bags On Board If there is one thing photographers fear, loath, worry about and detest it is getting stopped at the boarding gate and getting your bag weighed. Luckily these occurrences are few and far between for US and Canadian flyers, however it happens, and [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 7/02/2009 – US-Australia Fare Wars : Can Four Airlines Survive The Routes? Starting in February the lucrative marketing between California and Australia will begin a competitive shift that will again take another shift on the 1st of July. Come February 28th the link between Los Angeles (LAX) and Sydney (SYD), [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 27/01/2009 – The Plane Behind Lost’s Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 A few days ago an anonymous reader of Flying With Fish asked me if I had noticed the paint scheme of the plane used on the ABC’s prime time television show Lost, to replicate the crashed fuselage of Oceanic Airlines [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 22/01/2009 – KLM’s Flying Blue Paint Goes Eco-Green There is a lot of talk about ‘going green,’ and I try and discuss this topic when I can on Flying With Fish.  Airlines are experimenting with eco-friendly fuel (Air New Zealand and Continental), some are moving towards more eco-friendly meals (China [...]

Web: www.comeflywithfish.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 5/1/2009 – Stopped From Bringing Carry-On Baggage Through Security : Who Are These Guards Telling You Your Carry-On Bag Is Not Allowed? Increasingly flying photogs are encountering inconsistent carry on baggage regulations. These inconsistencies are confusing, frustrating and do further harm to the perception that the airlines just don’t value [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 17/12/2008 – Delta Airlines 747-400 Takes To The Sky : The First Sign Of The Delta – Northwest Merger Anyone who follows business, global business, the airline industry, or who simply flies somewhat often, has most certainly heard of the Delta Airlines merger with Northwest Airlines.   The combination of these [...]

Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 10/12/2008 – Delta Moves Forward With In-Flight WiFi In an unexpected announcement, Delta Airlines has announced that they intend to launch in-flight WiFi ahead of schedule.  Instead of launching the new service in 2009, they will roll it out by the end of 2008. With all the changes in the [...]

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 25/11/2008 – The No Fly List. The TSA. The Glaring Problems Highlighted By A Four Year Old. There have been many famous cases of prominent people having their names placed on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) No Fly List (NFL). The most famous of these gaffs by the [...]