Weekly Roundup Friday 27 April 2012
Good morning ‘Waste not, want not’ has been my motto for a long time now. It is amazing how many experiences can become Travel Insider articles – it seems a shame to waste an interesting …
Month: April 2012
What to Include in a Car Emergency Kit
I nearly died of exposure a week or so back. Well, okay, so I’m exaggerating somewhat. What happened was my car broke down and I had to park it perilously close to fast traffic zipping …
Whether 4 or 95 yrs old, a Congressmen or a Vet, the TSA Blindly Harasses Innocent Travelers
While the TSA continues to blindside itself by overlooking enormous vulnerabilities in airport and aviation security, and while it seeks to expand its role to stopping ordinary cars driving on ordinary highways for random searches …
Weekly Roundup Friday 20 April 2012
Good morning Happy 60th birthday this week to the illustrious Boeing B-52, still operational as a heavy bomber, sixty years after it first took to the skies on 15 April, 1952. 744 of the planes …
When is the Best Time to Buy Your Airfare?
I noticed an article in the NY Times earlier this week about when is the best time to buy an airfare. That is, for sure, a murky topic that we’d all love to know the …
Weekly Roundup Black Friday 13 April 2012
Good morning I was excited to read about JK Rowling’s next book, ‘The Casual Vacancy’, being released in September – especially because it is a book for adults. But upon going to the information on …
Some Success Against Rip-Off eBook Pricing
On Wednesday the Department of Justice announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Apple and five book publishers – Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan and Penguin. The suit alleges an illegal conspiracy to …
Boeing Beating Airbus in Both Orders and Deliveries
Normally one shouldn’t pay too much attention to the respective sales figures for Boeing and Airbus during the course of each year, because large orders appear irregularly, and while it is interesting to see one …
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Weekly Roundup Friday 6 April 2012
Good morning It is a strange and semi-random process, deciding what to write about. I started off Thursday this week with some half written materials for publication today, and then during the morning, stumbled across …
Is Delta Going to Buy an Oil Refinery? And Why? (Not an April Fools Day Joke)
Okay, so we all know that airlines burn a lot of jet fuel, and that fuel competes with labor to be any airline’s number one greatest cost. And if there is one thing the airlines …
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Wyndham’s Woeful Website – the World’s Worst?
The internet has been a core part of hotel companies’ promotional and distribution activities for at least five years now, maybe even ten or more. It is no longer new, it is well known, to …