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

As a regular weekly co-host of the #TNI (Travelers Night In) Travel Chat it would be easy for me to shamelessly promote that this chat happens every Thursday at 3:30pm EST and runs for 90 minutes … oh wait I just did … but this blog post isn’t about the #TNI chat.   This post [...]

It might seem odd that someone who make a good portion of their living working with social media within the travel industry would have last checked in with Foursquare on the 23rd of August 2010 at their local train station. Foursquare is an excellent social media channel for travel … but as people seem to [...]

When an airline’s social media goes wrong it tends to go really wrong. Social media going off the rails ends up taking a tool that is ideal for damage control and turns it into an instrument of brand destruction … especially for a global airline with a highly conservative.   Yesterday afternoon British Airways‘ usually [...]

Today’s post is directly taken, in it’s entirety from Peter Shankman’s blog (yes, I have his permission to post it here on Flying With Fish) and his story is one experienced by thousands of travelers every day, but stories we almost never hear of.  Why do we rarely hear stories like Mr. Shankman’s?  Because it [...]

Last Saturday, the 28th of July 2012,  as Alaska Airlines‘ Boeing 737-790 N611AS flew along passengers noticed some writing in black magic marker on the aircraft’s starboard side, with an arrow pointing to a cut out in the flap.   While the crescent shaped cut out on the 737′s outboard flap has clearly been machine [...]

Fair Warning … Today’s Blog Post Is Completely Self Serving … and I’m OK with that … The Travel Strategist Introduces TweetAFlight™ Instant Sales Channel for Airlines Innovative Solution Monetizes Social Media Followers, Turning Airline Tweets into E-Commerce Transactions New York, New York, USA – (29 March 2012) – The Travel Strategist, a social media [...]

Today’s post on Flying With Fish is from Seth Miller, author of The Wandering Aramean (also a BoardingArea blog). When Seth is actually home in New York City, rather than sitting in a seat flying somewhere, he builds some fantastic tools for travelers, such as a Mileage Run Calculator, a Flexible Fare Search, an Airline [...]

Twitter is a great place to met fellow travelers, travel enthusiasts, travel experts and people with some great stories from their journeys … one place to meet these folks is during the weekly #TNI chat, brought to you by the folks at ZipSetGo.com, every Thursday at 3:30pm EST   Every week #TNI, or Travelers Night [...]

Journalists have a tough job seeking out and reporting on stories. Gathering information as a journalist requires dedication, resources, a thick skin and the ability to build trust with your sources that they will remain protected. In the United States, a free press has been able to report on tough issues independent of government interference [...]

Are airlines apologetic for a poor passenger experience? Many travelers would say no.   With more travelers interacting with airlines via social media and airing their complaints with airlines publicly through Twitter, I decided to pick fifteen active airline Twitter accounts, from the 100 most active airline Twitter feeds I follow, and find out.   [...]