March 29, 2018: Still not commenting to a start date — or what cities will serve as the mainland departure points — Southwest is setting itself up to initiate service to Hawaii — with Honolulu the first gateway destination. Rumors say service to start sometime this year but could drag out into 2019 — no word on ticket or service pricing — will bags still fly free? Stand by for lift-off!!!
March 28, 2018: Yup — Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport is again ranked number ONE as the worst airport in America for flight cancellations — the reasons — weather — and being the world’s busiest airport hub — the TC says avoid it!!!
March 27, 2018: Transit time — via subway and rail — to and from New York can now take up to 4 long frustrating hours due to construction at Penn Station and reduced service from the Newark train station to the airport. Nothing runs on time and schedules for both services usually run late if at all. And to add even more traveler confusion, Newark Airport continues it’s very slow construction modernization project with most of the airport a dirty dusty confusing construction mess. If traveling to and from the Big Apple — stick with JFK — LaGuardia, the airport then VP Biden called “at best a third world airport” continues it’s modernization program and is also a mess. JFK works well —stay with what you know!
March 26, 2018: United is once again causing passenger confusion by testing another new way to board their planes — the current 5 line system, travelers ranked by a convoluted classification system based on frequent flyer status, works very efficiently. Now the airline is testing at LAX a 2 line boarding system — without defining or expelling why this may work faster and be less confusing — seems to the TC a BIG waste of time and resources — how about taking these expenses and putting the $$$’s to offering some free food on long haul flights? How about that??
March 23, 2018: Air travelers traveling with so called, “emotional support” animals continues to set new highs and lows — Federal guidelines say the airlines must allow passengers traveling with the support animals to board and fly — but don’t provide any guidance as to what types of support pets fit the category. Recently a traveler tried to board a United flight with a full size emotional support peacock — even bought a seat for the feathery critter — United said NO and neither the passenger or bird made the flight. In another case, Oscar (so called emotional support Boa) was also denied boarding —even though the 7 foot long Boa’s owner had purchased a seat for “his pet” and was going to take Oscar out of his container and let him sit —or coil-on the middle seat. How would you like to be the passenger sitting on the other side of 7 foot long fat hungry Oscar?
March 22, 2018: WHY WHY WHY —asks the TC — why change a 30 year brand image that is recognized world wide — WHY WHY WHY? There had been rumors for quite a while of Lufthansa introducing a new livery for their planes, after having the same livery for about 30 years.
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