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Kids flying solo? Here’s what you’ll pay.

04/23/10

My Well-Mannered Traveler column on msnbc.com this week –Are airlines cashing in on your kids? -addresses some of the new fee airlines will charge you to put your kid on a plane as an unaccompanied minor. Southwest Airlines gets kudos for not charging customers a fee to take along two checked bags. But the “Bags →

Changes galore in fees and service charges on Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air

04/22/10

Heads up, Alaska Airlines or Horizon Air customers. A bunch of changes to the airlines’ fees and services were announced today. The news is good and bad… Here’s a rundown: Effective for travel on or after June 16 for tickets purchased beginning May 1. Checked bags and baggage service guarantee It will cost you $20 →

Fees

Travel contests: you can’t win if you don’t play

03/15/10

Traveling is expensive. Especially if you want to eat and sleep when you get somewhere. So we’ll start the week off with two contests you many want to enter to help subsidize an adventure. AirTran Airways has a Facebook-linked sweepstakes encouraging students to become a “Facebook creeper,” which they describe as someone who “crawls Facebook, →

Get ready to “Apolo-ize” yourself at SEA and PDX

02/02/10

Are you getting excited about the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver? The folks at Alaska Airlines are. Today (Tuesday, February 2, 2010), airline representatives will be at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA) and Portland International Airport (PDX) asking passengers to help cheer on speed skater and Pacific Northwest native Apolo Ohno by “Apolo-izing” themselves with free →

Greetings from the North Pole

12/13/09

Yesterday I had the great honor of joining more than 60 kids from Spokane, Washington on a quick trip to the North Pole. We flew, of course. On a special Alaska Airlines flight. And for most of those kids it was their first time going to the airport, the first time flying on a plane, →

Boeing Factory Tour: Aviation Geekfest report

12/07/09

On Sunday I was pleased to be able to join 46 other folks on an tour of the Boeing factory in Mukilteo, Washington as part of Aviation Geekfest hosted by Alaska Airlines, Horizon Air and the Future of Flight Aviation Center. In a testament to the power of social media – or the fact that →

Alaska Airlines unveils an Apolo Ohno plane

11/18/09

Seattle is pretty proud of Apolo Anton Ohno, who began his speed-skating career here when he was just 14 and went on to win numerous world and national championships and five Olympic medals. (Oh yeah, he was also on the Dancing with the Stars TV show.) Now he’s getting ready for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics →

Flight training at Alaska Airlines – not for sissies

06/24/09

Last night was Aviation Geek Night at the Alaska Airlines training center in Seattle. A dozen folks who follow Alaska Airlines on Twitter (http://twitter.com/alaskaair) were invited to experience what it’s like to pilot a $30 million dollar aircraft and get some Flight Attendant safety training. We didn’t get any face time with these guys: But →

Safety

Souvenir Sunday: toys from Alaska Airlines & tales from Siena

06/21/09

Happy Souvenir Sunday! Every Sunday Stuck at the Airport unpacks the carry-on and re-packs for a fresh new adventure. It’s also when we look over the souvenirs we’ve accumulated through the week. This week, we have this cute little Air Force One that photographer and world traveler Daniel Incandela found for sale at the Indianapolis →

Souvenirs

Airports and airlines scramble over swine flu

04/28/09

As I reported today on MSNBC.com, airports and airlines are scrambling to respond to the government-issued alerts about travel to and from Mexico in the wake of the swine-flu outbreak there. It’s hard to know what will happen next, but most airlines with flights to Mexico have posted policies offering to waive the change fee →

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