The lovely ladies of Heels First sent old Perry Platypus on a Super Top Secret mission to check out the new American Express Centurion Lounge that just opened this week at the Dallas/Ft Worth International airport. It is located in the international terminal at DFW close to gate D14 by …

View from the Wing has an article on planning just in case your checked-baggage is lost.  The timing is perfect because I recently had a flight where I knew I had a high probability of my baggage being lost. How okay are you with ditching your bags? Is it okay …

I’ve placed wine in my checked luggage using the wine diaper.  I even tried pouring an entire bottle out, and my luggage was unscathed. But what about transporting a case of wine?  I found a cheap way of doing it with some items intended to help with moving.  While it …

Boarding Processes–where are they now and can they get better? Yesterday, as Keri, my husband, and I fought to try to get through other people to board during our boarding group, I couldn’t help but notice the Southwest flight boarding next to us. They were lined up nicely and boarded …

Keri, Bill, and I were all on a flight together that was pushing back in just enough time for us to make our connection.  That is–until a ground stop was put on flights out to Philadelphia and we were sitting on the tarmac. Since we were allowed to take our …

I apologize for this being out of order, but I couldn’t find my photos from this one flight when I did my trip report!  I just accidentally found them while writing another post. This is one post in a series on visiting Paris: 1. Surprising Someone With a Trip to …

I was tracking flights from Philadelphia to San Francisco and saw there was a flight delayed by two and a half hours that wasn’t popping up on every website that was showing PHL-SFO flights.  I was looking at it on the FlightTrack App, and Bill couldn’t find it on the …

If you go to Anchorage, it is worth the trip to Girdwood.  Besides it being scenic (more on that later!), it is also delicious.  The Hotel Alyeska is nearby with direct access to Seven Glaciers.  But I still dream about Jack Sprat’s. Was Jack Sprat’s a culinary cornucopia of courses?  …

If the TSA’s system at the airport (let’s say for example) is 99% accurate, does this mean they are 99% accurate in catching terrorists?  That would be my assumption, until I read an article our guest poster, Art Carden wrote on Forbes.com. According to Art, when a NSA program (talking …

When Keri suggested going to Hershey, PA, we searched for hotels in the area.  Even though we would have loved to stay at the Hotel Hershey (and I would have loved to spend all day drinking those peanut butter cup martinis), we decided to be cost effective and use some …