It’s already into December and you suddenly realize you really don’t want to sit at home that week after Christmas. A quick look online or a call to your travel agent will tell you, a few days in Hawaii or the Caribbean or Mexico really isn’t much of an option, unless you’re prepared to spend thousands in airfare before even beginning to look at prices for the few hotels available.
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A passenger at Bismarck Airport was having trouble with Delta’s check-in kiosk to accept his information.
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A federal judge cleared American Airlines of wrongdoing in a case involving a canceled flight from Chicago. The lawsuit was brought up by six Iraqi-American men who “claimed their nationality caused the cancellation of a flight.”
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Here is an example of bad, very bad customer service at the Hertz car-rental counter. The entire sequence was caught on video tape. Next, comes an old-time travel reel about Chicago filmed back in 1948. It is fun to take a look at how Chicago was portrayed. Finally, our own Christopher Elliott has been quietly making videos in his closed studio. Here is one on using suggestion forms.
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As of May 1, US Airways changed its boarding procedure, eliminating the reverse pyramid process. Now we know why.
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The tourism organizations of Kenya, Chicago, Hawaii and DC are taking notice of the rock-star popularity of the new President of the United States. They are beginning to milk the Obama connection for all the tourism it’s worth.
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United Airlines Flight 637 from Philadelphia to Chicago made an emergency landing at Pittsburgh International Airport after encountering a pressurization problem.
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Gadling has a nice little roundup of news on the Chicago area’s next airport (40 years in the planning), currently slated for the south suburbs in Will County.
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There was plenty of elbow room for passengers on a recent Chicago-to-London flight as an American Airlines jet carried just five passengers, a decision that has sparked outrage in the environmental community.
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