Where Oh Where is the Travel Curmudgeon Now?
February 26, 2018: Find out this week where the Travel Curmudgeon has been wandering — but feel free to take a guess!
February 14, 2018: Virgin Atlantic’s Upper Class passengers — the ones who sit upfront and can pay ? as much as $10,000 for a round trip flight to London — should be given more respect-and quicker service checking in at LAX— and not long lines awaiting customer service attention. This isn’t Walmart you know?
February 13, 2o18: TC leads the charge for Hamilton opening week at Victoria Palace Theater in London — entertaining but pack a lunch for nearly 3 hour American history rap extravaganza!
November 17, 2017: In Utqiaġvik, ‘low sealings’ bring a unique airplane hazard — and temporarily close “way north” Alaska airport runway. The obstruction, one you don’t experience very often, was removed with some TLC and heavy equipment to to move operations back to normal.
November 8, 2017: A recent Virgin Atlantic flight from London to Boston made an unscheduled stop in Manchester to drop off an extra pilot who was needed to work a different flight — it seems that was the fastest way to get him there — less than a two hour taxi drive. The Manchester flight was headed to New York — the message to passengers thinking they were on a nonstop to Boston was “that was the only option and pilot available?” The unscheduled stop cost Virgin several thousand dollars and resulted in both flights being very late to their final destinations.
