An hour late but the ground crew did an excellent job of updating things. Midnight Blue was the plane (all JetBlue planes are named) delivering me to the amazing JetBlue Terminal 5 (NB terminal has free wifi).
Yearly Archives
Yearly Archives for 2010.
America’s Worst Airlines
Having just had a horror United Airlines recently, I found this report very fascinating. US News used information produced by the UN Department of Transport and produced an excellent slide show. Best to worst Hawaiian Airlines (excellent on time performance and customer satisfaction ratings) AirTran (high customer satisfaction and good baggage handling) JetBlue (great customer satisfaction) Southwest ( lowest % of customer complaints) Continental (consistently good for six years) Frontier (similar rating as Continental) US Airways (scores have been improving) American (the worst airine for baggage losses) Alaska (good on-time performance but passenger dissatisfaction) United (with…
I have reached 12.5 weeks in the air
Flew my 222nd Qantas flight today — from Melbourne to Sydney. Also my 53rd (horrible) United Airlines flight from Sydney to Los Angeles (see separate blog article) Altogether 673 air flights totalling 2091:51 hours of flying (12.5 weeks sitting inside tubes of metal)!! In Miles 938,092 In Kilometer 1,509,714 Check out my flight memory.com with travel maps, airlines flown etc. My favourite airlines are listed here. My least favourite airlines are here.
United Redeems themselves!
This sunset shot taken en route from LAX to Pittsburgh. This was my 53rd United Airlines flight and my 60th flight at LAX!. This was a superb flight…pretty much 5 out of 5! Friendly staff, clean plane. Thanks Rob and team! This flight was in huge is contrast with yesterday’s abysmal United Airlines flight from Syd to Los Angeles (check out review).
Legitimate online travel agencies
Following my last post, I have compiled a list of legitimate agents. Feel free to add to the list: Australia bestflights.com.au expedia.com.au Lastminute.com.au Trailfinders travel.com.au webjet.com.au Zuji.com Canada Cheapflights.catravellastminute.caOnline Travel Centretravelocity.ca Hong KongPriceline.com.hkzuji.com.hk/ NZ Expedia.co.nz House of Travel webjet.co.nz Singapore Priceline.com.sg South Africaflightsite.co.za Uk eBookers expedia.co.uk Lastminute.compriceline.co.uk Trailfinders.co.uk travelocity.co.uk USA Priceline.com Expedia.com orbitz.com travelocity.com
Almost had $1200 stolen
I am very internet savvy. I am very cautious about online transactions am someone others contact when they are checking on spam or online rip offs – and I almost got stung for $1200. What stopped me? Some red flags that I think through before booking on-line. I recommend that you need to consider these red flags whenever you book online. While on my Facebook, up popped the advertisement shown here. I clicked the link and got the website of Cheaper-Flights.net.au Red Flag #1 Unknown Supplier I had never heard of Cheaper-Flights but this is not unusual on the internet so…
A Difficult Decision..Your advice please
This is not really a difficult decision! Which flight will I choose from Pittsburgh to the New York area?
Airports of the World: Reykjavik
Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland is the Northern most capital city in the world. The city was founded in 1786 as an official trading town. Today, Reykjavik is home to just over 200 000 people. Located at 64°07′48″N – only 2 degrees south of the Arctic Circle, the city has 20 hour days in summer and four hour days in the depth of winter. (By contrast Boston is at 42° 21′ 28″ N, Montreal is at 45° 30′ 0 N, and Edinburgh is 55° 56′ 58.4″ N) Two airports serve the Capital: The first is Reykjavíkurflugvöllur (Reykjavik airport) IATA Code: RKV.…
Website: “I Hate Ryanair” to close!
One passenger (Robert Tyler) who disliked Ryanair immensely set up ihateryanair.co.uk in February 2007. The site has acted as a place for passengers to share horror stories. In January 2010, Mr Tyler began accepting ads on the site which earnt him 365 pounds. Ryanair then took Mr Tyler to a domain name tribunal complaining “that the site took unfair advantage of the Ryanair name for commercial gain.” The adjudicator agreed saying: “It cannot be fair to take advantage of the reputation attached to another party’s trade mark in this manner, whether it be good or bad.” and has demanded that the…
Why is Ryanair so bad?
Ryanair is the discount airline that everyone loves to hate. Yet, they fly more international passengers than Lufthansa. Staggeringly they carry more international passengers than British Airways and Air France combined. They operate 250 Boeing 737-800 aircraft on over 1,100 routes across Europe. While, my experiences with Ryanair have been okay. I rate them only 3 out of 5 which makes them my eighth most disliked airline! Tripadviser earlier in 2010 declared Ryanair to be the worst for amenities (4th year in a row). Reasons why Ryanair is disliked: Ryanair charge very low fares and then add extras like luggage and…
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