To celebrate five years of service to Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), Southwest Airlines will be throwing a little party at its PIT gates starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Gate games and decorations are promised, but with Southwest, well, you never know quite what will happen. Even without a Southwest party, Pittsburgh Airport has a […]
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 […]
For my At the Airport column on USAToday.com this month, Airport wars escalate with attack ads aimed at rivals, I wrote about a new YouTube video about San Francisco International Airport, that features cameo appearances by SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and Marion & Vivian Brown, the kooky 83-year-old identical twins who have become beloved San […]
A couple of fun and possibly useful notes: Southwest Airlines begins service between New York’s LaGuardia Airport and both BWI and Chicago’s Midway airport at the end of June (2009). To celebrate, the airline is sponsoring the Southwest Porch in New York City. It’s in Bryant Park, at appropriately enough, the park’s southwest corner and […]
Today ( Saturday, June 6, 2009) if you’re flying to or through Seattle-Tacoma (SEA), Portland (PDX), and Spokane (GEG) airports, go over to the Southwest Airlines gates and ticket counters and see if you can get it on their party. The airline is celebrating 15 years of service to these airports with history and trivia […]
Wish you could drive a cool car or fly to some cool places? Then stop playing solitaire on your computer and enter some of these contests: Through June 29, 2009, American Airlines is running a “Capture the Flagship Experience” game. Top winner gets two round-trip Business Class tickets to anywhere American flies in Europe, Asia […]
To celebrate five years of service to Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT), Southwest Airlines will be throwing a little party at its PIT gates starting at 10 a.m. on Tuesday. Gate games and decorations are promised, but with Southwest, well, you never know quite what will happen. Even without a Southwest party, Pittsburgh Airport has a […]
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 […]
For my At the Airport column on USAToday.com this month, Airport wars escalate with attack ads aimed at rivals, I wrote about a new YouTube video about San Francisco International Airport, that features cameo appearances by SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and Marion & Vivian Brown, the kooky 83-year-old identical twins who have become beloved San […]
A couple of fun and possibly useful notes: Southwest Airlines begins service between New York’s LaGuardia Airport and both BWI and Chicago’s Midway airport at the end of June (2009). To celebrate, the airline is sponsoring the Southwest Porch in New York City. It’s in Bryant Park, at appropriately enough, the park’s southwest corner and […]
Today ( Saturday, June 6, 2009) if you’re flying to or through Seattle-Tacoma (SEA), Portland (PDX), and Spokane (GEG) airports, go over to the Southwest Airlines gates and ticket counters and see if you can get it on their party. The airline is celebrating 15 years of service to these airports with history and trivia […]
Wish you could drive a cool car or fly to some cool places? Then stop playing solitaire on your computer and enter some of these contests: Through June 29, 2009, American Airlines is running a “Capture the Flagship Experience” game. Top winner gets two round-trip Business Class tickets to anywhere American flies in Europe, Asia […]
This week United Airlines joined Southwest and several other airlines in formalizing and posting a “seatmates of size” policy on its website. (From a 2007 Well-Mannered Traveler column on this topic, courtesy MSNBC.com) Although the policy was quietly posted on the airline’s Web site some time ago, it went into effect just this past Wednesday, […]
St. Patrick’s Day is on March 17th, but Southwest Airlines is celebrating almost a full week early. Tomorrow, March 12 (Thursday), three “very sprightly, very green, very enthusiastic leprechauns” will be flying to and from a variety of cities leading in-flight trivia games and passing out prizes in departure gates. Look for them in Dallas, […]
Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) used its Twitter account during the recent east coast snowstorm to share information about weather conditions and flight delays and hopes you’ll sign up to get their tweets- including updates on parking – next time you’re headed that way. And Southwest Airlines rolled out yet another priority security lane […]