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Travel tidbits: LinkedIn for travelers; win tickets to South America

01/25/13

Another site for travelers to bookmark: Are you on LinkedIn? It’s a good way to connect with others in your field and now it’s another place to go to chat about travel issues and read articles related to travel. This week LinkedIn introduced “Jet: The Business Traveler Network,” which includes a running, curated, feed of […]

Week long delay for some Alaska Airlines passengers?

01/08/13

My route home to Seattle from Santiago, Chile was via Miami and Chicago, so I suspected I was maybe just very tired and a bit out of it when I looked at the “Departures” and “Arrivals” screens for Alaska Airlines at O’Hare International Airport. The departures were definitely for January 7th – my day of […]

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UFO spotted in Santiago

01/05/13

This shop in Santiago wasn’t open yet when I walked by, but it holds out the promise of being able to at least listen in on conversations from outer space….

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NORAD’s Christmas night

12/26/12

Three airports, twelve hours of flying, one upgrade (on the longest leg; thank-you, Santa), and a ride on the light rail ride and in a taxi is all it took to get home to Seattle on Christmas Day from Maryland. Planes were full and there were plenty of families with babies and toddlers in tow; […]

Fun, holiday flash mob at Calgary Airport, courtesy WestJet

12/12/12

A really sweet and fun-looking flash mob erupted at Calgary Airport recently, courtesy of WestJet and Santa.

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Delta Air Lines’ new in-flight safety video is a hoot

12/05/12

This new Delta Air Lines in-flight safety video is fun. And the pop-up version is educational. And look – there’s Deltalina.

Travel Tidbits: Power, art and blades

11/22/12

Alaska Airlines has installed 200 extra electrical outlets/USB ports at its gates in Anchorage, Portland and Seattle to match the power outlets in its gate areas in Terminal 6 at Los Angeles International Airport and at Sacramento, San Francisco and San Jose airports. Portland International Airport has a new printmaking exhibit titled “Cut & Print” […]

Flying Tigers, Ducky deliveries found in airline timetables.

11/08/12

It’s too bad I found the Airline Timetable Images website so late in the day. Well, perhaps it was a good thing. Because I’ve already spent way too much time scrolling through the images. Here are just a few samples of what I found:

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Vintage airline timetables

Air New Zealand’s new Hobbit-themed safety video

10/31/12

Still like the Bare Essentials video best, but this new Air New Zealand Hobbit-themed safety video is adorable.

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