
The Gate with Brian Cohen
Gap Lake. A Good Starting Point in Canada.
After I rented a car and checked out of the hotel near Calgary International Airport, I drove west on Trans-Canada Highway 1 — watching the Rocky Mountains looming in the distance and creeping closer with every kilometer — to Exit 114, where I took Alberta Provincial Highway 1X north to...

View from the Wing
Las Vegas Hotel Charges Guests $26 For A Bottle of Water, As Adam Smith’s Famous Economics Paradox Dies In A Hotel Room
The Aria Las Vegas charges guests so much for water that it strikes down a fundamental precept in economics that has held for 150 years. As one guest writes to me, a bottle of water in the room there costs $26!
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Paddle Your Own Kanoo
British Airways Boeing 787-8 Deamliner to India Dumps Fuels And Makes Unscheduled Landing After Suffering ‘Flaps Failure’
A British Airways Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner heading to India with as many as 214 passengers onboard was forced to jettison fuel and divert back to London Heathrow Airport on Sunday afternoon after a midair technical problem was detected. British Airways flight BA35 to Chennai in the Indian state of Tamil...

View from the Wing
Shake Shack Taste Test At 30,000 Feet—Delta Just Won The Airline Burger War
Delta Air Lines has been slowly rolling out Shake Shack burgers as a pre-order meal choice in domestic first class since late fall. I finally had a chance to try it and was seriously impressed.
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One Mile at a Time
Big: Citi AAdvantage Executive Card 100K Bonus Miles Offer
A few weeks ago, we saw a huge limited time welcome offer rolled out on American’s most premium co-branded credit card, making it an ideal time to apply. This is a genuinely rewarding card, which offers lounge access, bonus Loyalty Points, and much more. In this post, I want to...

The Bulkhead Seat
WestJet Hit by Ongoing Cybersecurity Breach That’s Impacting Internal Systems and Its Mobile App
Canadian Airline WestJet has been hit with a cybersecurity incident that has disrupted access…
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