Flights

I wrote a post a while back on whether or not airlines should delay a flight for a coffee pot.  Usually, there are a few different complicated factors that affect whether the flight can take off on-time, but to passengers, it often seems silly. Today, there was a delay that …

With recent changes to American Airlines’ upgrade process, frequent flyers are running out of upgrade certificates faster than ever. From Pizza in Motion: Gold and Platinum members will earn 500-mile upgrade certificates (I still can’t help calling them stickers) at a slower pace, 4 every 12,500 qualifying miles flown. These …

I came across this face pillow on Kickstarter and boy, is it popular. It’s raised 1,000,000 when it’s original goal was $15,000. The only thing is, it doesn’t quite look comfortable to me. From Kickstarter on its strange look (typo from the original text): 3 of FaceCradles 5 modes we dont …

Vlogger Casey Neistat was taking an Emirates flight from to New York City to from Dubai.  He still isn’t sure why, but he somehow scored a free upgrade to first class out of business. He happened to have all his video equipment with him. What resulted was the funniest first class …

I have a very common last name,  but a very uncommon name overall–at least in the US.  So I haven’t run into many cases of mistaken identity with my name.   I had a curious incident on a flight last year.  I’m reminded of it because I was on the …

Duty Free shops require you to show your boarding pass to ensure you are taking an international flight.  But other shops in the UK were asking people to show their boarding passes. Why? It turns out that some of the non-duty free shops were profiting off non-EU citizen’s purchases. According …

I’ve written about the world’s shortest flight before.  The world’s shortest commercial flight is 47 seconds.  I’m guessing the chances of getting an inflight beverage on that route are low. But that flight is from a location in Scotland to another location in Scotland. What about the world’s shortest international flight? It was …

I just had a second experience with a strange booking bug.  The weirder part is that my first experience was on the US Airways system and the second experience was on the American Airlines system.  But the same thing happened. Two Years Ago First, my previous experience.  I booked a …

The other day, I wrote about some pre-flight stretches I found that are supposedly great for you.  And I admitted I did them in the lounge–albeit, in a section of the lounge that was completely empty. But a woman decided to take her stretching onto the plane and did her …

Due to a last-second flight cancellation on my trip, I unexpectedly found myself on an Emirates A380 flight. Eager to share my experiences with the world, I tweeted out a selfie of me in my seat. My selfie was met with immediate support from the travel blogging community, including Gary …