Have you ever wished that you or your home would smell just like your favorite airport or airline? It’s not such a far-fetched idea. Back in 2012, we saw the debut of a line of 19 city-centric scents named for their airport city codes — CDG (Paris), LHR (London), DXB (Dubai) — and packaged in slender bottles […]
A severe storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast will cause travel trouble for thousands on Tuesday – and beyond. As of 1 AM EST on Tuesday, flight tracking service Flight Aware is showing close to 2,000 flights canceled, including all flights at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Hobby Airport (HOU), both of which […]
The wildfires in the Southern California Metro area are causing widespread devastation. Support is flowing in. But more is needed. Here are a few ways you can join airlines in contributing money or miles. Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines are donating $100,000 to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and five million Mileage Plan miles […]
What’s ahead for airlines? This week IATA, the International Air Transport Association, released its 2025 outlook, covering everything from the number of people expected to fly, to financial outlooks for the industry and the progress (or not…) on the industry’s goal of producing enough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to help airlines combat climate change. Here […]
Want a free house? KLM, the Netherlands’ flag carrier, gives them away for free. There are strings, of course. And more to the story. You need to be flying in business class on an intercontinental flight. And the houses are just 4 inches high. But they are filled with Dutch gin and are part of […]
Condor, the German airline with the candy stripe livery in an assortment of fun colors, has added a pink-striped livery to one of its Airbust A320 aircraft to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which runs through October. Condor’s “Fly Pink” plane joins the “FlyPink” initiative founded by QantasLink pilots in 2015. The initiative supports the […]
Have you ever wished that you or your home would smell just like your favorite airport or airline? It’s not such a far-fetched idea. Back in 2012, we saw the debut of a line of 19 city-centric scents named for their airport city codes — CDG (Paris), LHR (London), DXB (Dubai) — and packaged in slender bottles […]
A severe storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast will cause travel trouble for thousands on Tuesday – and beyond. As of 1 AM EST on Tuesday, flight tracking service Flight Aware is showing close to 2,000 flights canceled, including all flights at Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Hobby Airport (HOU), both of which […]
The wildfires in the Southern California Metro area are causing widespread devastation. Support is flowing in. But more is needed. Here are a few ways you can join airlines in contributing money or miles. Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines are donating $100,000 to the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation and five million Mileage Plan miles […]
What’s ahead for airlines? This week IATA, the International Air Transport Association, released its 2025 outlook, covering everything from the number of people expected to fly, to financial outlooks for the industry and the progress (or not…) on the industry’s goal of producing enough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) to help airlines combat climate change. Here […]
Want a free house? KLM, the Netherlands’ flag carrier, gives them away for free. There are strings, of course. And more to the story. You need to be flying in business class on an intercontinental flight. And the houses are just 4 inches high. But they are filled with Dutch gin and are part of […]
Condor, the German airline with the candy stripe livery in an assortment of fun colors, has added a pink-striped livery to one of its Airbust A320 aircraft to mark Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which runs through October. Condor’s “Fly Pink” plane joins the “FlyPink” initiative founded by QantasLink pilots in 2015. The initiative supports the […]
Love wine? Love taking wine home when you travel? We do too. Alaska Airlines has a long-running and very popular Wine Flies Free program that allows members of its mileage plan program to check a case of wine without having to pay an extra baggage fee when flying from 32 West Coast cities in Washington, […]
No one wants to get sick on an airplane. But if you feel ill, it’s good to know there’s usually an air sickness bag in the seatback pocket. And, as there is for most everything, there are people who are serious about collecting (unused) airline barf bags. This short film includes interviews with some of […]
Between the storms in many regions of the country and the grounding of all Boeing 737-9 MAX aircraft for inspection, there are a lot of flight cancellations, schedule disruptions, and airline travel alerts. Here are links to the current travel advisories and waivers (as of early Tuesday, January 9, 2024) in effect for some of […]