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Coolest new airline? Maybe.

10/13/15

Can the air travel experience be calmer, cooler and more comfortable? The big thinkers at TEAGUE, the Seattle-based design consultancy surely think so. The company helped design Microsoft’s first Xbox and has been Boeing’s key design partner forever. And to float some ideas about what might make air travel better, they created a new – […]

REAL ID act may cause issues for air travelers

10/12/15

What’s in your wallet? If you plan on traveling any time next year, the question is a pertinent one. Travelers with driver’s licenses from New York, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Louisiana, American Samoa or another state or territory the Department of Homeland Security deems not-compliant with the federal REAL ID act may soon be barred […]

Fun new safety video from Delta Air Lines

08/11/15

Fun, offbeat airline safety videos designed to catch the attention of ‘seen it a hundred times’ passengers continue to roll off the line. The latest comes to us from Delta, the airline that brought us ‘The Internetest safety video on the Internet,” and other classics. Like the others, this new video has some fun features […]

Alaska Air & JetBlue top airline survey ratings

05/13/15

The J.D. Power 2015 North America Airline Satisfaction Study is out today and both Alaska Airlines (in the traditional carrier segment ) and JetBlue (in the low-cost carrier segment) remain at the top of the heap in terms of customer satisfaction. Alaska Air ranked highest in its category for the eight consecutive year, followed in […]

Living in the Age of Airplanes – preview on an A380

04/07/15

I was a fortunate guest for the in-flight preview of “Living in the Age of Airplanes”, a new National Geographic film by Brian Terwilliger, that is narrated by Harrison Ford, with an original score by Academy Award-winning composer James Horner. The film opens this Friday in IMAX, giant screen, digital and other special specialty […]

Manners in motion: flight etiquette from JetBlue

01/13/15

It seems like many air travelers check their manners with their baggage. JetBlue is taking a turn at trying to fix that with a series of light-hearted videos offering advice on how to behave.

On-the-ground perks in your airline boarding pass

12/27/14

Airline tickets may no longer come with meals, pillows or much legroom on planes. However, on some domestic and international flights, paper or electronic boarding passes come packed with a wide variety of on-the-ground bonuses. For example, travelers on Virgin America can present their boarding pass for a free scoop of Humphry Slocombe’s ice cream […]

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Gadget glitch at ORD Airport? The Geek Squad is there.

12/16/14

Pretty much everyone travels with an electronic gadget -or three – these days, and sometimes those gadgets get finicky. If that’s what’s happening when you’re at Chicago O’Hare International Airport from now through December 23rd, there’s free help at the ready. Best Buy Geek Squad Agents are stationed in O’Hare’s Concourse H from 8 a.m. […]

Alaska Airlines offers free entertainment on personal devices

12/15/14

Alaska Airlines is joining the ranks of airlines offering in-flight entertainment directly on passengers’ personal electronic devices. The new entertainment service, part of what the airline is calling its new Alaska Beyond ‘experience,’ kicks off today on 50 of Alaska’s 737 planes and will be available for free though Jan. 31, 2015. Alaska plans to […]

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