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Modern art — sometimes a challenge but always interesting and fun!
A cold and rainy day for the TC in this world landmark “sinking“ city!
Where Oh Where is the Travel Curmudgeon Now?
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!
Curmudgeon “Shout Out” Trying to Meet with Matt Lauer at NBC Today Show in New York
February 23, 2018: Was told he was on “extended holiday” but to come back around March 1 when he might come by to pick up severance check and office desk!
Clothes-To-Go at SFO
February 22, 2018: Informal and comfortable— and warm — so says the new clothes to go boarding gate vending machines at SFO— what’s next —maybe hot food on the run as you board?
United Gets Pissy with Passengers — Again!
United Gets Pissy with Passengers — Again!
February 21, 2018: Airplane toilets, won’t to quirks and mishaps as they are, can get too full. And when aircraft toilets reach capacity, vacation plans get thrown into chaos, as passengers onboard a flight from Denver to Kilauea, Hawaii learned all too well on Sunday.
United Flight 1219 was three hours away from its destination of Lihue Airport, ostensibly gliding through the open air en route to paradise, when flight crew noticed the toilets had “reached capacity.” The aircraft pulled a 180, darting back to San Francisco so the beleaguered waste tanks could be serviced. As you could guess, passengers were pissed:
“Bottom line is they ruined a lot of people’s vacations yesterday,” Rich Anderson told FOX 31. “They gave us a really crummy start.
United sent a statement to all the passengers, who were expecting to land safely in the blissful sunshine of Hawaii but instead arrived where they started, all because of the human detritus occupying the same plane.
“A decision was made to turn back and land in San Francisco where arrangements were made to change planes. I can appreciate that this experience was disappointing and unpleasant,” the statement read.
To compensate for the dilemma, which set travelers back an additional eight hours, United provided $200 flight vouchers and 10,000 bonus miles for each passenger.
United’s negligence in cleaning out the plane’s waste tanks fits what seems to be a growing trend of unexpected run-ins with fecal matter in the airline industry. (You read that sentence correctly). Late last year, a plane with broken toilets made an emergency landing so passengers could release their bowels without the threat of a toilet geyser destroying the cabin. And well, another plane diverted from its flightpath due to a passenger smearing poop on the lavatory walls.
Be nice at check in — You might score something extra? And carry chocolate bars?
February 20, 2018: Be nice at check in — You might score something extra? And carry chocolate bars?
Virgin Disappears into Alaska?
Virgin Disappears into Alaska?
February 19, 2018: As of now — Virgin America, once part of the vast Richard Branson business empire — is now “officially” gone and US operations become part of the growing Alaska Air Group — one of the highest ranked US carriers for reliability and customer services — maybe other US carriers should take note and strive for better service like Alaska? Rumor from Branson’s operating base in London notes that his Virgin transportation group is also looking to dump money losing Virgin Rail service?
Is SFO Becoming the Bermuda Triangle for Airports?
February 16, 2018: Another foreign carrier mixes up runway landing instructions — who’s minding the control tower?
