Taking Lyft / Uber: San Francisco, Napa Valley and Back
Background – San Francisco/Napa Valley/Sonoma My friends and I had a 4 day trip to San Francisco booked for Labor Day weekend and one of…
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Connecting at Heathrow? 3 hours to wait? Heathrow will take you shopping.
It appears that Heathrow has made another service available which totally misses its real problems. Following hard on the heals of special training for…
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American launches new status Fast Track – including Executive Platinum
Goodness, looks like American really does want to build up its elite numbers over the autumn. Perhaps in advance of announcing a switch to…
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New Jersey Governor (and US Presidential candidate) wants to track visitors to US ‘like Fedex packages’
In a fairly extraordinary speech, Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, home of Newark airport, is adding a new twist to the US immigration…
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OK so no Night Tube, but TfL slipped out this news too….
Many large organisations slip out big news at the same time as something that is guaranteed to grab the headlines. TfL did the same last week, ‘No Night Tube’ made the papers…everything else was sidelined.
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Transport for London delays Night Tube services – no one is surprised!
In a long expected move, Transport for London, the operator of Tube, bus and other transport services in the UK’s capital, announced a delay…
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Airlines | Commentary | Travel
Introducing A New Blog Series: “What’s The Big Deal?”
Like many of you, I spend a ton of time on Flyertalk and these forums contain a wealth of information about everything you could ever want to possibly know about anything travel-related. But with user-generated content comes a fair amount of complaining. It simply comes with the territory. I generally group the complaints and rants that I come across into 3 buckets:
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Gett $30 (now $50) Credit + $10 Flat Rate in Manhattan To 110th St
GETT $30 $50 CREDIT New Gett customers now get $30 $20 $50 credit. It has been $20 for a long time now so I was pleasantly…
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Passenger Shaming – Right or Wrong?
Shoes and Shirts required? On a plane? You would have thought so but the popular Passenger Shaming group on Facebook has some even worst behaviour on display. Yet, Flyertalk took down a recent thread which contained the same material. Who’s right?
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Travelling through Heathrow? It’s OK to take your imaginary friend
Heathrow Airport, in probably one of the oddest moves ever, has released a training video for its staff. It covers how to handle Imaginary…
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The UK Airport VAT fiddle – part 2
I wrote earlier in the week about how some airport retailers were not passing on the sales tax (VAT) that they recover for purchases…
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A visit to to One World Observatory, New York
Not a cheap place to visit but if you pick the right day, the One World Observatory can afford spectacular views of New York and New Jersey.
