We’ve all been there.  We receive a notification that our flight was cancelled.  Everyone runs to the gate agents or lounge agents.  Everyone pulls out their phone. When there’s been major cancellations, I had trouble getting rebooked as a top-tier elite on my airline.  You can’t get prioritized to the front …
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Delta Flight Diverts When ~15 Passengers Got Sick at the Same Time
Did they eat the fish? A Delta flight just diverted to Tulsa when ~15 passengers–that is, 10% of the flight–suddenly got sick at the same time. The flight took off from Atlanta and was headed to Denver. Here’s a play-by-play on the flight by Flight Aware. There’s no word yet …
Read More »Whoops! Delta Flight Lands at Wrong Airport
A Rapid City-bound Delta flight landed at the wrong airport yesterday. Whoops. Instead of a regional airport, the A320 aircraft landed at an air force base. Apparently, in this case, the two airports can be confusing According to Fox News: Ellsworth is about 10 miles due north of Rapid City Regional …
Read More »A Hotel Suite So Big, I Discovered Another Room on the Last Day
Once, I stayed in a hotel suite so big, I found a new room on the last day of my stay. I was on a work trip in Las Vegas, and we got a suite at the Encore Tower Suites to use for hospitality and entertaining. (The Encore is attached to …
Read More »Travel Alert for DCA Flights: Portions of Airport Bound Metro Shut Down Through July 11th
American Airlines just sent out a notice about the different station closures. Due to major safety problems with the DC metro, portions of the system have been shut down while critical repairs happen. The National Airport Station to Braddock Road is one of the track pieces currently up. While the trains themselves …
Read More »Will a Flight Ever Turn Back When It’s Already Thousands of Miles into Flight Path?
The answer, sadly, is yes. We just had a case of this with British Airways on a Heathrow to Tokyo flight. From the Daily Mail: Passengers on a British Airways flight to Tokyo were forced to suffer a 6,000-mile ‘flight to nowhere’ after the plane they were on returned to Heathrow …
Read More »Virgin Australia Strands Little Boy at Airport When His Flight is Cancelled and Rebooked 2 Days Later
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Read More »Win a Trip to Watch a Show About Taking a Trip (meta!)
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This Product Will Help You Pack Faster and Keep You From Forgetting Things
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This Device Promises to Give You Unlimited Worldwide 4G Wi-Fi
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