Last month I harkened back to my childhood and asked – about airplane blankets – what’s grosser than gross? Now I ask, which of these is worse? Feet on an American Airlines Domestic First Class Bulkhead Or Feet on the Wall of an Etihad First Class Suite? How Do You Feel About Bare Feet on a Plane? You can join the 40,000+ people who see these deals and analysis every day — sign up to receive posts by email (just one e-mail per day) or subscribe to the RSS feed. It’s free. You can also follow me on Twitter for the latest deals. Don’t miss out!
Monthly Archives
Monthly Archives for May 2014.
Always Print Your Travel Itinerary (All-Electronic Isn’t)
There are many times it helps to have a printed e-ticket itinerary, and even a printed boarding pass. An itinerary can be helpful: Getting into the airport Many airports in Asia — such as Bali, Male and Manila — will have security checking for itineraries on the way into the terminal. Showing your onward travel plans at immigration. You may need to demonstrate you have an onward ticket when being admitted into a country, or for that matter when transiting. Transi security will often need to see either a boarding pass or itinerary. Interlining bags across multiple itineraries. If you are traveling on separate tickets and checking bags, and want the airline you’re checking in with to interline those bags to the next airline in your journey, they’ll be much more willing to do so…
Unsuck Washington Dulles, Fire Jeff Smisek, and 900 Free Alitalia Miles (Bits ‘n Pieces for May 1, 2014)
News and notes from around the interweb: Washington Dulles is a very bad airport. You reach the airport and you’re nowhere near the actual airport. There’s a taxi monopoly that’s terrible for the environment — one cab takes you, and returns empty while another drives there empty to pick up passengers. And now they’re harassing Uber drivers (and not just UberX, either). If nothing else, DC-based flyers really need a hash tag. Last week I said that it’s time for United’s Board to look for new management instead of new customers. The largest local chapter of United’s pilots union agrees. And in the airline industry a pilots union can effectively oust a CEO (as we’ve seen in the past at both United and American). 900 free Alitalia miles for signing up for a car rental…
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