Air Pacific has a nice discount on its flights to Fiji using American Airlines frequent flyer miles: for flights from anywhere in the US to Fiji through December 14, it’ll cost you only 50,000 miles instead of the usual 75,000. Air Pacific is perfectly functional if not slightly cramped. With the demise of the Discover [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Fiji for 50,000 MilesA very cool (airline nerdy cool) site to tell you about: flightstats.com. Besides giving you all the basics around flight arrivals/departures, it gives detailed info around departure time changes — flight departure times change constantly up until the flight. It’s well worth wasting 15 minutes of your day there…
Read the Rest of the Story: Flightstats.com: Incredibly CoolLan Argentina just announced new overnight nonstop service from Miami to Buenos Aires and has a fare sale to promote it: $399 round trip if you book by September 4 and fly by December 13. That’s more than half off competing nonstop fares.
Read the Rest of the Story: Cheap Fares to Buenos AiresFor plane nerds, there aren’t many places better to watch a plane land than at St. Maarten’s airport, where the planes land right next to the beach. For a pretty cool (cool in the dorky sense) video of this, check out here.
(thanks to Travel Nate for the heads up)
Despite the hysteria you may have seen on TV late last week, US airports pretty much returned to normal on Friday. The US eased some restrictions, allowing people to take liquid non-prescription medicines on board, as well as contact lens solution. The UK is also now permitting hand luggage to be brought aboard. It’s still [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: US Airports Returning to NormalThis isn’t exactly airlne related, but you can’t drive to the airport without parking, so it sort of is. Sort of.
I just learned about a cool little tool at www.aboutairportparking.com. For a whole bunch of airports in the US, they’ll show you on a Google Map where all the airport parking is for the [...]
A door fell off a TAM Fokker 100 en route from Sao Paulo to Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday. Nobody was injured, but I’m sure at least one person was wondering what the fokker was going on. Sorry. Pretend I didn’t write that. The door fell off 18 minutes after departure, but the plane was [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Door Falls off TAM Plane, Nobody HurtYou may be wondering if the airline industry will collapse with the London events as it did after 9/11. The early indications appear to suggest that the airlines will be just fine. American put out a release saying that they’ve seen nearly no cancellations today (bravo to the American public for not overreacting to this). [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: So, What’s Going to Happen to the Airline Industry?I have no idea how I missed this 2 weeks ago: Northwest Airlines was transporting 11,000 baby turkeys from Detroit to San Francisco and, somehow, killed 9,000 of them. The turkeys, which were going to Zacky Farms in Fresno, were 1 day old and died from overcrowding after the airline did not follow instructions to [...]
Read the Rest of the Story: Northwest Kills 9,000 TurkeysI’m not even going to bother writing about the terrorist plot to blow up planes between London and the US — I hope you don’t actually get your news from me. I’ll focus on dead turkeys, P Diddy and other important stories.
Read the Rest of the Story: Terrorist Plot Thwarted