Today, I have chosen what i believe are the five most fun safety briefings in the sky. See what you think (below). First: a few comments about on board safety. I have flown 683 times. In that time, while I have had five scarey flights*, i have never been in an emergency. Air Travel is indeed a very safe way to travel. However, the time I am in an emergency, I want and need to know how to get off that plane alive-fast. So, it amazes me how many people sleep, chat or read…
Airports brace for ‘don’t touch my junk’ protests
From MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40351426/ns/travel/ Travelers dismayed by airport body scans are headed to airports Wednesday with the makings of any good protest: handmade fliers, eye-catching placards, slogan-bearing T-shirts — and Scottish kilts. The loosely organized effort dubbed National Opt-Out Day hopes to highlight what some call unnecessarily intrusive security screenings. Others fear it will merely snarl pre-Thanksgiving airline operations on one of the busiest travel days of the year. If enough people opt for a pat-down rather than a body scan, security-line delays could quickly cascade . More than 40 million people plan to travel over the…
Lan Fantastic way to travel!
My flight with my 70th airline (LAN Chile) almost came to blows in the Check In line. Check In: 10/10 I get to stand in the priority check in queue because of the curse/benefit of having flown too much! When I arrived at Auckland, New Zealand airport for my 430am Check in for Sydney, I went straight to the Priority Line. As I stood there, I observed the man in the regular line was eyeing me carefully. When the check in clerk gestured to me to move forward, he was off! He roared across with his…
Is Qantas now unsafe?
Charlie: Ray, all airlines have crashed at one time or another, that doesn’t mean that they are not safe. Raymond: QANTAS. QANTAS never crashed. Charlie: QANTAS? Raymond: Never crashed. Charlie: Oh that’s gonna do me a lot of good because QANTAS doesn’t fly to Los Angeles out of Cincinnati, you have to get to Melbourne! Melbourne, Australia in order to get the plane that flies to Los Angeles! In those words from the movie “Rain Man”, Qantas was immortalised as the world’s safest airline. What was not strictly true was the “never crashed” statement. Qantas, which…
Dont use GoldCar rent a car in Spain
Not my article but helpful one recounting someone being stung by a car rental company in Spain–some helpful warnings http://www.spanish-fiestas.com/holidays/goldcar.htm
A letter to United – you are terrible
Dear United Airlines Not flying with you between Australia and the USA again (I still have to fly home with you!) because: your 747 is so old and so tatty, it looks like no one cares. So much so the woman next to me was nervous that the maintenance was being done in the same slip shod fashion. your staff were very unfriendly They didn’t care and resented the passengers being there. The Cabin crew chatted through the safety briefing. They gossiped loudly in the galley when people were trying to sleep. They visibly read magazines…
I LOVE JetBlue
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).
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).
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