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A new ThreadTripping study reveals astounding evidence that March and April are the worst months for peanut allergy sufferers. The evidence? This thread on FlyerTalk in which flyers describe various in-flight peanut announcements. It is a truly amazing thread in that it started in March 2013, went strong for several days, then went quiet until CMK10 posted to…
You don’t have to be a customer service expert to know that if a company’s customers are compiling photographic evidence of service issues expressly because they believe the company in question will call them liars unless they have proof, well, that company has a customer service problem. Emirates, based off of a thread started by m3red on…
Ok, that title might be a bit misleading. In point of fact, I can’t actually offer a surefire way to survive an airline crash and neither can any of the posters in this thread about watching the safety presentation. Some of the posters however – corporate-wage-slave and greg5 to name two – allude to research that suggests passengers who pay attention…
As I typed the title to this thread I thought to myself, “Here we go again … another thread about cool flight numbers.” Seriously, who cares about flight numbers, right? Sure, they’re necessary to make the whole airline travel thing go, and sometimes they are useful to know when you want to know the type…
You book a hotel room and pay a rate that includes breakfast for two at the hotel restaurant. Because you hold elite status with the hotel, you also are entitled to two breakfast vouchers when you stay at the hotel. So, you, your spouse and your two kids stay at the hotel and everyone’s breakfast…
On Dec. 17, Southwest Airlines posted a teaser on its “Nuts About Southwest” blog: Could it be? Yes, it could. Something’s coming, something good, If I can wait……… Something’s coming, I don’t know what it is, But it is Gonna be great! And since Dec. 17 FlyerTalkers have been trying to guess what this could…
I’m not a religious person, but I think if the Bible were authored today, in the age of air travel, some of the stories would get a re-write. For example, I think rather than telling Abraham to take his son to the top of the mountain and kill him, God’s test would probably be more…
Reading this thread on FlyerTalk is what I imagine it would be like to listen in on a backstage discussion among presenters at a TED conference. Forget the topic – though the the future of credit cards is certainly an interesting and worthwhile topic in its own right – the real point of interest is…
Hollywood script writers should bookmark this thread on FlyerTalk wherein rmaxtor inquires as to the best/proper way to bring an engagement ring into the U.S. so as to propose to his U.S. citizen girlfriend. What a great scene this would make in a romantic comedy. The would-be gallant gentleman, ready to commit and make his…
As the airlines continue to a-la-carte every service and product they can figure out a way to separate into pieces and parts, imagine this hypothetical scenario. You are booking a 10-hour flight in economy and are given the option to choose either a relatively comfortable seat and a good selection of in-flight entertainment OR good…
