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Air Fare WatchDog has a chart detailing how airfare alert sites compare

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Check out Air Fare WatchDog’s chart comparing the air fare alerts here.

Cool! A set of airline sticker photos on flickr

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Someone put together this nifty collection of photos of airline stickers — most from a long time ago. Here are the thumbnails, you can see the rest of the airline sticker photos here.

Have you had something stolen from your checked luggage?

Thursday, May 13th, 2010

If you’ve had something stolen out of your checked luggage — whether large or small — share your story here.

Follow Flight Club on twitter!

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

We here at Flight Club are on twitter, tweeting links and bits that are good but aren’t quite big enough to make the blog.

New category on Flight Club: Airport Security Issues

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Hi there. Notice a recent change in the number of airport security issues? Yup, either the TSA is feeling starved for attention or they’ve instituted a quota system. Or the terrorists are winning. Or, or, well, yeah. Here at Flight Blog action has been taken: A new category for blog posts. That’s what you do [...]

World-wide air traffic simulation: 24 hours of flight

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

This video’s a simulation of world-wide air traffic patterns over 24 hours:

(via MapRoom)

New on Flight Blog: The airline death pool

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

With the many airline deaths and impending deaths in the news, it was clear Flight Blog needed a new category of posts to address these casualties of the air business. Thus, you get the Airline Death Pool category on Flight Blog. Welcome, aloha, death pool — I know there’s not much that’s swimming in you [...]

Survey says flying blows, we need more security, and legroom rules

Monday, April 16th, 2007

CNN reports on an Orbitz survey:
Asked to cite their “most problematic” trip experiences, 40 percent of those surveyed cited flight delays and 21 percent said airport security. Only 15 percent said hotel amenities and cleanliness, while 9 percent cited rental cars.
Other interesting bits from the survey:

59% say cheapest prices is the most important factor when [...]

Stuck in Denver? Try meeting others stuck here with Flight Club.

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Flight Club helps folk meet other folk in airports (and on airplanes). There are thousands of travelers stuck in airports now. What better way to relieve some boredom than to sign up with Flight Club and find other travelers stuck in your same airport? If this sounds like a stinky disaster in the making, well, [...]

Graph: Make Friends on an Airplane vs. Body Odor

Wednesday, October 4th, 2006

Edward Tufte probably doesn’t need to see this, but you do. This is a funny, insightful and cute doodles-as-analysis / unsophisticated stat site: indexed.blogspot.com (via Information Aesthetics).

Other favorites of mine:

Pop Stars vs. Possums
Contraception for the lazy
Biological clock warning signs
The beer cycle