Category Archives for Domestic US.
It’s with great sadness that I say goodbye to Madrid. I loved my time here and was so happy to help the NH Collection EuroBuilding Hotel celebrate their grand re-opening. If you haven’t kept up with my trip, relive it all today while I fly back on not one, but two airlines I’ve never flown…
Dear American Airlines, This is hard for me to write. I’m one of the foremost fans of airline food in all of the media. In fact, I write this blog in part to educate flyers that food on planes has gotten so, so much better. After my most recent flight, though, I need to speak…
I’ll make this quick: sign up for this new promotion from Radisson and American Airlines and you can get 7,500 miles for staying two nights between now and December 15th. You’ll need to be both a Club Carlson member and an AAdvantage member to take advantage of the promotion, but chances are you already belong…
If you’re a regular JetBlue True Blue flyer, get ready to start dancing in the streets. I just got an email from JetBlue announcing that they’re lowering their redemption minimum for True Blue flights from 5,000 points all the way down to 3,500. That’s a 30% reduction! Taxes and fees are $5.60 each way and…
Earlier today, I shared some of the new dishes from Virgin America‘s Fall 2014 menu and now I’ve got the whole thing for you. Check it out below: FIRST CLASS Descriptions Breakfast Chive Cheese Omelet Omelet made with chives, Monterey jack and parmesan cheeses, served with orange and purple herb roasted sweet potatoes, sautéed…
The American Virgins are at it again. Wait. No. That sounds too NSFW. Let’s try that again. Virgin America is rolling out a new seasonal menu for Fall 2014. Yes. That’s better and much more accurate. The new additions follow Virgin America‘s ethos of fresh, local, and sustainable and that applies to both First Class,…
If anyone has a time machine available, let’s go back to 1973. That’s the year when Freelandia Airlines launched and from what I’ve read, it sounds like flying nirvana. Picture this: an airline that exists as a “flying club” where the flight attendants wear colorful Flash Gordon-like uniforms and serve all-natural organic food while the…
Can you hear that? That’s the sound of me shaking my head. In what can only be termed a “first world problem,” some guy decided to use a product called the “Knee Defender” which wedges into the brackets of your seat-back tray table and prevents the person in front of you from reclining. In response,…
Airline safety videos have come a long way. At time, they captivate us. At other times, they bore us to tears. Consumerist seems to think that the latest video from United is among the worst they’ve ever seen. As Chris Morran of Consumerist says: “All the safety stuff you already knew is finally over around…
Who doesn’t love pancakes? Okay, you can put your hands down, Celiac sufferers. Everybody else, get ready for a pancake miracle. Alaska Airlines has upped the airport lounge breakfast game with “Popcake” machines that churn out pancakes faster than Sunday morning dads ever could. They’re essentially pancake robots that issue their circular products from an…
It sounds like a dream come true for single travelers and possibly a parent’s nightmare (or dream, too, depending on what kind of parent they are), but Virgin CEO Richard Branson has been tossing around the idea of creating a cabin to separate children from the rest of the plane and have them be supervised…
For as much as I tout the developments of the in-flight eating experience, it’s very clear to me and pretty much everyone else in the world that the on-board food options for domestic carriers in the United States are pretty substandard. Remember that awful microwave pizza I had in AA First Class a few months…
There are good people in this world. The proof can be found in Wyoming on Monday night where a Frontier plane got diverted from its Washington Reagan (DCA) to Denver (DEN) flightpath due to thunderstorms and had to land in Cheyenne (CYS) to wait out the storm. Pilot Gerhard Bradner didn’t want his passengers to…
There was a story in the LA Times on Sunday that Delta has filed for trademark protection on the slogan “The World’s Most Trusted Airline.” Now I don’t fly Delta nearly as much as Rene from Delta Points, but in my experience that slogan is not at all true. In fact, I’d venture to guess…
