Colorado Winter Weather Alert (Last updated 10:25 pm MT 2/1/2012)
Due to the expected impact of a winter storm, Frontier Airlines has enacted the following guidelines for travel to/from or through Aspen, Colorado Springs, Denver and/or Steamboat (Hayden).
For all customers scheduled to travel February 2-3, 2012 who purchased tickets on or before February 1, 2012:
For [...]
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.
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 [...]
Ever thought about taking your sex toys with you on an airplane? The San Francisco Chronicle put together this excellent guide about handling sex toys and air travel and luggage. Here’s a sample:
If you’re one of the 500,000 (half a million!) people traveling to San Francisco for this year’s Pride Parade, before you [...]
Mohammed al-Modadi lit up a cigarette and burned himself into the annals of airline security incidents. As if breaking the no-smoking rule wasn’t bad enough, he made a joke about shoe bombs. Hi, Jack, nice to cause a nationwide scare with ya’. Ah, Qatar.
The Atlantic breaks down the al-Modadi incident in a minute-by-minute timeline here.
Here’s [...]
The New York Times has this one:
A terminal at Kennedy International Airport was evacuated on Saturday afternoon after a man apparently used a restricted doorway, a breach that delayed dozens of flights and threw the airport into disarray as hundreds of people were rescreened, the authorities said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17JFK.html
Via @ChrisLevinson
This story of a horrible Delta Airlines experience, in which Delta actually lies to a passenger so they can look like they’re in the right, comes from a reader (of course, this is assuming the reader’s story is true):
I booked a flight from SFO to Dublin, Ireland by way of Atlanta on Delta. I spoke [...]
This video’s a simulation of world-wide air traffic patterns over 24 hours:
(via MapRoom)
Now, with the internet, there will soon be an information-niche for everything. The Guide to Sleeping in Airports has their territory staked out loud and clear. No need to guess what you’re going to get from them, no. Cheap? Homeless? Can’t afford a hotel? Check out their tips and lists of airports to sleep in [...]
Okay, so last weekend I was at the airport in Denver, waiting for my plane, taking advantage of the free wifi. Only, nothing’s free, and DIA pays for some of the cost of providing free wifi by displaying ads with every page you load. I did my American duty and clicked on some of the [...]