The boys of summer at Ocean Beach in San Francisco (Photo: Chris McGinnis)
Quick note: TravelSkills will be in vacation mode during August, with only periodic posts. We’ll be back at full steam in September so stay tuned! And enjoy your summer. –Chris
TravelSkills’ 10 most popular posts over the last week (descending order)… plus a few newsy nuggets we missed.
1. Flying cozy: Trip Report: Air Canada B767 lie-flat business class
2. Coming soon: First look at the new $4 billion LaGuardia (photos)
3. What a deal! How to get $25 off your next car rental
4. There’s a difference: Direct or nonstop flight? You tell me!
5. New routes for American, Alaska, JetBlue, Frontier
6. Don’t be afraid to ask: How to avoid worn out hotel rooms
7. Are you up for it? Delta’s ultimate upgrade: private jets
8. Employers take the heat: Binge drinking, sleeping around on business trips
9. A plane makeover: Delta unveils revamped Airbus
10. Big surprise: Is Kimpton abandoning San Francisco?
(Photo: Jason Tester Guerilla / Flickr)
Guess what? No UberX or Lyft at LAX in August after all. Grrr.
A few newsy nuggets from other sources that we missed on TravelSkills this week:
>At LaGuardia: Nice new terminal, but same old delays
>Uber is OK at Oakland International!
>Plan emerges for Uber/Lyft at ATL, but it’s going to be a while
>IHG eyeing Fairmont after Starwood rumors die
>Delta and China Eastern hook up, Delta gets Shanghai
>Atlanta on-airport hotel to break ground in early 2016
>British Airways adopts smaller bag size that other airlines dismissed
>Toronto gets underwater tunnel to airport
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— Chris McGinnis (@cjmcginnis) July 31, 2015
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