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Peanuts on planes: got a problem with that?

09/10/10
Peanuts on a plane. For a lot of people, that’s a more frightening scenario than snakes on a plane. And a lot more likely. And as I wrote in my msnbc.com column this week – Passengers peeved about peanuts on airplanes – a lot of travelers think the best way to enhance airline passenger protections […]

Airports and airlines recycle some surprising stuff

05/13/10
For my At the Airport column in USATODAY.com this month I offered a fun round-up of items being recycled by airports and airlines in an effort to be help save the earth and, in some cases, to save some serious money. You can read the full column, For airports and airlines, creative recyling  brings cost […]

Tidbits for travelers: Free trips and free flu shots

02/18/10
Doesn’t Paris sound good right about now? Then sign up to win a pair of tickets (from Pittsburgh) to Paris – courtesy of Pittsburgh’s WHIRL Magazine, Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) and Delta Air Lines, Entries will be accepted through May 7, 2010. But why wait? Lufthansa Airlines isn’t giving away tickets to Paris, but if […]

Man opens airplane door: can ya’ blame him?

03/31/09
According to this article, Robert McDonald, a passenger on a Delta flight heading from JFK to Las Vegas on Sunday after arriving from Rome,  is in big trouble after trying to open an emergency exit door while the airplane waited out a delay at JFK airport. Flight 149 pulled back from the gate just after […]

Delta’s Wi-Fi-enabled planes: 50 and counting..

03/15/09
Delta Air Lines now has 50 planes equipped with Wi-Fi, courtesy of Gogo inflight internet.   That’s a smidge over 15% of the airline’s domestic fleet. The count so far: MD88 – 44 aircraft MD90 – 1 aircraft B757-200 – 5 aircraft Strange: While they’re go-go about the Wi-Fi march forward at the Delta blog, […]

I want these chairs at the airport!

03/11/09
The Wall Street Journal picked up a story about  some cool new airline seats, Thompson Solution’s Cozy Suite, that look downright cozy, and they say Delta Air Lines has hired the chair designers to create an economy-class version of the chair.   That sounds great.  But wouldn’t it be great it there were banks of seats […]

Future Academy Award-winners on Delta?

02/23/09
Have a little Oscar fever? Then check out the possible Academy Award-winners of the future on an airplane – or on-line – courtesy of Delta’s Fly-In Movies. Five short film finalists were selected by programmers of the upcoming 2009 Tribeca Film Festival and will be shown, for free, from March 1 through April 12 on […]
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