May 22nd, 2009 |
by Simon |
published in
Travel, airlines
I use AA.com all the time – booking flights, checking my AAdvantage miles, and checking seat availability, requesting upgrades bla de bla.
Their site honestly sucks big time. It looks awful, is clumsy, and is a nightmare to navigate. So hats off to Dustin Curtis for sending an open letter to AA about their site design, [...]
October 19th, 2008 |
by Simon |
published in
Dallas, Travel, airlines
I had to do a mileage run when I was out in Dallas. That’s basically taking a flight for no other reason but to keep your status with an airline frequent flyer programme. I needed 500 miles to go platinum with American Airlines. I know it sounds stupid, but there are big pluses to having [...]
July 31st, 2007 |
by Simon |
published in
Friends, Scotland, Travel, airlines
Hullo there! (Scottish accent) So after heading to bed at 9.30pm and falling asleep immediately last night, I have now recovered enough to tell you about my weekend! I am splitting it into each day otherwise it would be a long post. And you would probably be falling asleep. If you didn’t know, last weekend [...]
July 24th, 2007 |
by Simon |
published in
Travel, airlines
BBC News Online has an article tonight saying that Ryanair might soon be flying from Belfast City Airport. I for one hope that is not true.
I’ve never flown with Ryanair, and I don’t plan to either – something about them just doesn’t really appeal to me. I’d like to pay a bit more and experience [...]
March 2nd, 2007 |
by Simon |
published in
Travel, airlines
I’ve blogged before about full-cost carriers stripping out costs by getting rid of nice things like free food, so I was interested to see an e-mail from BMI today saying that from the beginning of April, all Diamond Club members holding blue plus, silver or gold cards and flying in Economy will get priority seating [...]