A survey of 2,100 flyers found Delta/Northwest to be the worst performer when it comes to rude flight attendants and bad food.
In the Airfarewatchdog 2010 survey, 23% of respondents felt Delta/Northwest had the rudest flight attendants followed by United (18%) and American (14%).
Not surprisingly, Southwest’s flight attendants were voted the friendliest (39%), followed by Delta/Northwest (8.1%), JetBlue (6.9%), and American (4.6%). Continue reading »
AirTran Airways today launched a sale for travel to all of its destinations.
Travelers may purchase these sale fares on AirTran’s web site, from their travel agent or via AirTran’s reservations system at 1-800-AIR-TRAN. For Spanish, call 1-877-581-9842.
The special fares are available for purchase through June 29, 2010, and good for travel from June 25, 2010-November 17, 2010.
Lowest fares are available for travel on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Additional sale fares are valid for travel on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Continue reading »
As part of its expansion drive to 9 new cities from Philadelphia from July 21, Megabus is offering 10,000 free seats from Philly.
Effective July 21, Philadelphia residents can travel to Atlantic City, N.J.; Baltimore; Boston; Buffalo, N.Y.; Harrisburg, Penn.; Pittsburgh; State College, Penn.; Syracuse, N.Y.; Continue reading »
Frontier Airlines has launched two daily nonstop round trip flight service between Santa Barbara airport and Denver international airport.
The new nonstop services uses the 99-seat Embraer 190 aircraft.
The daily nonstop service from Santa Barbara to Denver is at 6:30 am and 3:00 pm. While the 3:00 pm service is available daily, the 6:00 am service Continue reading »
United Airlines today introduced Zune inflight audio on all its aircraft.
Zune, Microsoft’s digital entertainment service, will allow United to offer its customers a broader selection of music with up to 21 separate playlists. Continue reading »
After more than a decade of sticking around with our old, seen-better-days travel mug we decided to kiss it goodbye and buy a new one.
After a bit of research on our favorite online shopping site Amazon, we hit on the Thermos Nissan 14-Ounce Leak-Proof Insulated Travel Mug (do you folks in India buy things like flasks and mugs online. God, we’re so sloshed now that we can barely type).
The travel mug cost us $25.42 and since our purchase was over $25, we got free shipping.
We ordered the travel mug on May 24, 2010 and the postman delivered it yesterday, i.e. June 1. Continue reading »