Here’s a good write-up on a study of overbooking and how many passengers get bumped (voluntarily and involuntarily) from flights:
In short, valuable business travellers want refundable tickets. Because of this and other reasons, about 10% of booked tickets become no shows. Airlines recoup the loss by over-booking. Implicitly, they trade off the […]
Some rich guy bought a super-mega-jumbo airbus plane to use as his personal jet, for him and his entourage. The article says it would take a year to make the jet suitable for private use … wonder what that entails?
The money shot is the third-to-last graf: “Environmental groups were annoyed by the news.”
Joss Garman, from […]
Guess it had to happen. Now that airport check-in security can make or break a closely-timed connection, there’s a new company out there with a card to help you avoid the hassle. It’s called “Clear,” and this is what they say it does:
Travelers who join the Clear® Registered Traveler program are pre-screened for security and […]
The Associated Press put together a report with new information on where billions of the air travel ticket taxes and fees go. About $7 billion of the $104 billion collected since 1997 goes to airports “used mainly by private pilots and globe-trotting corporate executives,” says the article.
“They’re making out like bandits,” said Bob Poole, director […]
I have never seen a flight-fare search program do this before: List the cheapest fares for one route for an entire month. This one does that, and it does more. Here’s a screenshot of the best deals when flying from Chicago to Denver in December:
You have to register before you can use it, and it’s free to use, and it’s well worth it. Check it out at http://matrix.itasoftware.com/cvg/dispatch/
This is cool: The Airline and Airport Duty Free Price Guide. Comparison shopping for duty-free goods.
Daily Candy breaks down some flight-booking strategy: When’s the best time to use a travel agent, and when you’re better off booking your flights online. It’s a good, quick read.
This is interesting because it’s the airlines thinking about doing it themselves (unlike private companies, like in the United States). Lost-luggage compensation costs in Europe are about to mushroom with the introduction of new laws that triple the potential “refund” for lost luggage (to 1,200 euros). This makes RFID tags on held luggage is an attractive solution, basically because data stored electronically is harder to mess up.
» Read the article: Airlines eye up RFID tagging
» Related Post: Reduce your chance of lost luggage
Hey, in case you didn’t know, Flight Club is an online community for air travelers. Flight Club (the parent of this blog) has online tools that help members meet other members on airplanes and in airports — basically, we’re fun people that make travel more exciting. Business travelers, recreational travelers, if you fly for fun or for work, if you fly just once a year, Flight Club has a spot for you.
Membership is booming, so if you haven’t thought about joining before, then now is a good time. Registration takes about a minute and you can do it at this page. It’s free, it’s a fun site, uh huh oh yeah.
Virgin Atlantic Airways , yes, they have a sense of humor. It’s good to see large corporations with a sense of humor, so I can give them a pass on their latest promo: Who’s the top Jetrosexual. You read that right.
They just coined the worst coined phrase.
But, like we know, they have a sense of humor. They came up with the eleven commandments of Jetrosexuals. Here they are (written in regular english, not that “thou shalt” speech they have on their site):
I was thinking of putting together an online poll that allows you to rate how many of these you match up with. Stay tuned.