Grab yourself a beverage and a snack, sit back in your chair and allow yourself an 8-minute break to enjoy comedian Brian Regan’s classic take on air travel, air travelers and air travelers navigating airports.
Fodors members provide a very interesting and informative thread on the subject of airlines, fuel prices and the factors that go into determining ticket prices. Further, they are yet another example of the fantastically helpful people you will commonly find on travel forums.
Let’s face it, as soon as Internet speeds became fast enough to stream video the hotel-room on-demand adult movie business was sure to dry up.
Fellow BoardingArea blogger Seth, aka The Wandering Aramean, recently posted on Milepoint about a cool new hotel search application he has developed called Hotel Hustle. Give it a try … it’s fun and useful.
After an agonizingly long wait the results we have all been eagerly anticipating have been announced. Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport was named by the TSA as the Airport of the Year!
If you are in the mood to watch some aviation-related videos that will knock your socks off, boy have I got the thread for you.
It ain’t easy running an airline, even a fictional one. But that’s the challenge canucklad has set for himself in this just-for-fun thread in which he puts himself at the head of Business Traveller International Airlines.
When I was a kid we read a magazine called “Dynamite”. In every issue there was a section called “What’s Grosser Than Gross”. If there were a “What’s Grosser Than Gross” piece for airline travel I think these anecdotes would qualify.
The video is a promotional piece about Heathrow Airport – and it was created in 1964. It’s fascinating to watch it and see how far we have come in terms of commercial aviation, and in some ways how far we haven’t come.
Raise your hand if you have ever been the victim of a pickpocket or mugger when on a trip. Unless you are currently on your trip and in a public space – then keep your hand safely over the flap of your bag and just nod in agreement.
