Le Chic Geek

The Transportation Security Administration has $15,000 to give out for ideas to speed up security. From NBC news: The TSA will award one prize of at least $5,000 and others of at least $2,500 for the top ideas. Plus, the winner gets the satisfaction of knowing they’ve made the airline experience for …

Where’s the best barbecue in Austin?  Gary at View from the Wing wrote about a new barbecue place that popped up in Austin, Terry Black’s Barbecue. While it did not live up to his standards, he mentioned a couple of favorite barbecue places in the Austin area– Black’s Barbecue (different) …

When checking your US Airways flight status, your intuition would be that www.usairways.com is the best place to check.  But there are three better places to check your US Airways flight status. 1. The US Airways Mobile Website You can access the US Airways mobile website from any browser at …

Want to take yoga on the road with you when traveling? The popular yoga app, Simply Yoga, is the app of the day on Amazon.com today–which means it is free! Edit: See comments, get free $1 credit for “buying” free app. If you are on the fence about whether or …

Nope, this is not an Onion article. From Forbes: The airline has changed its Twitter bio to “a big social media team costs money, so we put our feed on Autopilot to save you cents on every ticket.†While most airlines globally are ramping up their social media customer service …

Southwest is turning their old leather seats into shoes, purses and soccer balls–all in the name of charity. From the LA Times:  The Dallas-based carrier launched “Project Luvseat,†in which 43 acres of leather from hundreds of old airline seats will be donated to charitable groups in Kenya to make …

Random.org has spoken and the winner is…. The proof that these results are truly random–the winner voted for American Airlines.  <long sigh> Here’s the original post. And American Airlines won the poll overall.  I’m sure it didn’t help that Ed did some last minute muckracking.  (Beltway insider, really?) Anyway, this “rivalry” …

Another Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared off the radar:   From KXAN:   Popular flight tracking website Flightaware.com shows the plane was last over Ukraine when it disappeared from tracking. Twitter exploded with the news in various languages, including pictures and videos of plumes of smoke. The area where the aircraft is reportedly …

Ed from Pizza in Motion has posted a poll where you can vote on who has the better upgrade process:  US Airways or American Airlines. For details on the two programs: I wrote a detailed argument on why US Airways clearly has the better product. Ed wrote an argument for why …

I won’t admit what search terms I used that brought this up, but I found a resort that has an interesting experience. They hide bottles of Cruzan Rum in the water so that while you are snorkeling, you have a chance of discovering a bottle of rum. I think I …