October 27th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Funny, airlines
This is 42 year-old Anthony Toft. He has re-created a Pan Am first class cabin in his garage.
He’s gone to a great amount of detail, right down to the original Pan Am nut packets and sealed headphones, and has flown all over the place getting parts to create that authentic Pan Am experience. Pan Am [...]
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 [...]
