Tidbits for travelers: contests & an out of control flight attendant
Heading north to Alaska? If you see Santa, send us an email from your flight. While Aircell works on completing its Alaska-wide Gogo Inflight internet network for Alaska Airlines, passengers flying between Anchorage and Fairbanks will be able to use the service for free. So far, Alaska Airlines has installed Wi-Fi equipment on more than […]
Bellingham International Airport (BLI) is a tiny little airport just south of Vancouver, B.C. and about 90 miles north of Seattle. In 2004, about 70,000 passengers boarded planes at this airport. But then Alaska/Horizon Airlines and Allegiant Air began expanding their flight schedules here. Now service is offered to cool places such as Las Vegas, […]
Each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com we take a look at some of the fun, inexpensive, souvenirs you can pick up in airport shops. This week, we’re taking what may end up being a several-week side-trip into souvenirs sold by airlines. Going alphabetically… Poking around the AirTrain Airways website I found an AirTran Airways Airport Play […]
Heading north to Alaska? If you see Santa, send us an email from your flight. While Aircell works on completing its Alaska-wide Gogo Inflight internet network for Alaska Airlines, passengers flying between Anchorage and Fairbanks will be able to use the service for free. So far, Alaska Airlines has installed Wi-Fi equipment on more than […]
Bellingham International Airport (BLI) is a tiny little airport just south of Vancouver, B.C. and about 90 miles north of Seattle. In 2004, about 70,000 passengers boarded planes at this airport. But then Alaska/Horizon Airlines and Allegiant Air began expanding their flight schedules here. Now service is offered to cool places such as Las Vegas, […]
Each Sunday here at StuckatTheAirport.com we take a look at some of the fun, inexpensive, souvenirs you can pick up in airport shops. This week, we’re taking what may end up being a several-week side-trip into souvenirs sold by airlines. Going alphabetically… Poking around the AirTrain Airways website I found an AirTran Airways Airport Play […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]