News and notes from around the interweb:
- How budget travelers can eat well, inexpensively.
- Uplifting: Determined Father Gets Back on His Feet While Living in Hotel
Not quite Will Smith, But There Should Still Be a Movie About This! - Boy Has Awesome Southwest Airlines Birthday Party!
- Allergic to Dogs on a Flight? What Travelers Need to Know. I make the point to the New York Times author that folks who may have to get off a flight and take another one aren’t best-off booking ultra low cost carriers on many routes.
“A lot of low-cost carriers often don’t offer daily service,” said Gary Leff, who writes the blog View from the Wing. “You might have to wait a few days for the next flight. If you were on one of the major carriers, they often have multiple ways of getting to a destination on a given day. That’s why I prefer legacy carriers with substantial route networks. It’s the same with service or weather events. They can route around them.”
Here’s What to Do About Severe Allergies When Pets are on Your Flight.
- Customs and Border Patrol sent out a press release: Cocaine Vaginally Inserted Seized by CBP at JFK (HT: Michael W Travels)
- TSA Explains Minneapolis Security Wait Times: ‘Get Used to It’.
Early Friday afternoon TSA Public Affairs Manager Lori Dankers…says no passenger processing in Terminal 1 waited longer than 47 minutes on Friday morning to get through security, and that those passing through the TSA PreCheck lanes waited 10 minutes or less.
Cherry picking and still reporting bad results? Morning isn’t the busiest time through security, “The busiest times Friday afternoon at MSP are projected to be 1 to 2 p.m. and to 8 p.m.” Oh and the TSA complains passenger inconvenience is because its $8 billion budget isn’t enough.
Thanks for the link! 😀
Some people do have severe allergies to animals, but there are as many ‘I’m so sick’ actors as there are people with ‘Service Animal’ vests they nought on Ebay.
Here’s a solution. If you have an allergic reaction to a pet on a flight, you can complain to the FA, and you are then to evidence the medicine you carry to alleviate your condition. I mean if you are subject to these attacks, they can strike anywhere and you have sought help and medicine for your condition, right?
Then you and/or the in-cabin pet can and should be moved to seats apart. I don’t know anyone who is allergic to an animal 100 feet away, but then I haven’t read the never-ending flight on Flyertalk for a while so maybe I’m wrong.
“Oh and the TSA complains passenger inconvenience is because its $8 billion budget isn’t enough.”
Couldn’t have anything to do with the army of TSA agents standing around staring at walls… All more budget would do is allow them to hire more agents to stare at walls.