The delicate work of a sommelier has become more important as U.S. airlines fight for premium passengers willing to shell out up to thousands of dollars to fly business class on international and transcontinental flights. The idea isn’t to make money on the wine — the passengers in those seats drink for free — but [...]
Here’s what United Airlines said about the outage:
United computer outage
This evening, United Airlines experienced a computer outage interrupting the airline’s flight departures, airport processing and reservations systems. As a result, customers may experience difficulties completing transactions at united.com and United reservations. Our technology team is working to resolve the issue as soon as possible. We [...]
Here’s the first of the Flight Blog Poll of the Month series: How many times has an airline lost your baggage?
How many times has an airline lost your baggage?
Last July me here at the Flight Blog wrote about Terrafugia, who at the time was set to launch flying cars in the U.S. for $140,000. According to the most recent news, the flying car will cost between $200,000 and $250,000.
Here’s the first of the Flight Blog Poll of the Month series: Do you avoid traveling on Friday the 13th?
Do you avoid traveling on Friday the 13th?
Got kids? Do you fly with them? Here’s a worthwhile run-down of travelling tips for flying with kids.
Layovers. They happen to all of us. Airports have started to pay attention to this, and some have created “Napping Nooks” to accomodate travelers. Currently it’s just Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and San Francisco with these accomodations. You can read more about finding a place to nap in the airport here.
I used it once, for SXSW, and I found a place for me and my friends to stay with AirBNB. The first place I had was got canceled on me, and the process for dealing with that was stressful but worked out in the end. I recommend it.
By Flight Blog reader RGT:
I am at Chicago O’Hare airport, awaiting the 6pm flight to LaGuardia. I just wrote United to complain about the atrocious failures of United Airways.
I was booked on flight 7126 (UA flight 7593) December 30 from Salt Lake City to Chicago, connected to flight 6770 (UA flight 694) to New York [...]
Here’s the ACLU’s form for passengers to report when they were abused durning screening in U.S. airports.