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OK, this week’s iPhone non-App of the Week isn’t actually an App … its a newly redesigned mobile enhanced website. This week’s iPhone non-App of the Week is BoardingArea. BoardingArea, home to some of the best travel and airline blogs anywhere online … and the home of Flying With Fish … has revamped its website [...]

With Major League Baseball’s opening day just a few days away, this week’s iPhone App is for the baseball fan on the road, at the stop light, in a meeting, having dinner, in the shower … no wait iPhones don’t react well to being in the shower. This week’s iPhone App of the Week is [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday afternoon a story in Chicago Tribune dropped a bombshell on airline travelers.  In a statement to the Chicago Tribune, Kathleen Petrowsky, the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Director at Chicago O’Hare Airport (ORD), stated that she believed full body scanning, using new body scanning machines, would become mandatory in the future to guard against improvised [...]

29/12/2009 – Temporary Carry On Baggage Restrictions In Canada & UK As A Result Of  TSA SD-1544-09-06 Over the past few days carry-on baggage regulations for flights to the United States have been in a state of flux following the attempted terrorist attack on Delta Air Lines Flight 253, operated by Northwest Airlines and the [...]

10/12/2009 – iPhone App Of The Week : GateGuru If you bounce from airport to airport, especially airports you are unfamiliar with, you probably appreciate Apps that can help you find what you’re looking for during your limited time in an unfamiliar place.  While I have written about various Apps in past that offer up [...]