United’s first Boeing 777-300ER with Polaris seats goes into domestic service this week (Photo: United)
TravelSkills’ 10 most popular posts over the last week (descending order):
1 Ugh! United’s 4-hour flight to nowhere
2 Time to pave the Bay? Why SFO suffers so during rainy weather
3 Better watch out Someone’s spying on your strange airport behavior
4 Here come the Vikings….again Ultra-cheap transatlantic fares for 2 new cities
5 Check out where this reader went after his Qantas flight: Reader Report: Best economy seat on Qantas A380
SUNDAY UPDATE: United adds NYC airports to Feb 12-13 winter weather waiver
The new Denver Airport rail station is under the Westin Hotel. (Image: Jim Glab)
6 Best & worst airport-to-city trains– some great comments! Thanks 🙂
7 Simmer down! Emirates says Delta tantrum led to a six-hour flight delay
8 Dirty birds How often are planes washed?
9 Routes: Delta, Frontier grow Cincinnati + Southwest, Alaska, Spirit
10 70 readers have done this– you? How to get $200 for booking on Upside before Feb 28
Don’t miss this! An eagle snatches a drone out of the sky in military exercise
We’ve found a new “favorite place” just 20 minutes south of San Francisco: Pacifica. Step back in time and enjoy seafood and salt air at Nick’s Rockaway— or take a hike along the new Devil’s Slide trail!
Links to stories from other sources that we thought you’d like to read:
Another Hilton promo: get 500 extra points for booking via Honors app– all year!
Emotionally distressed United pilot removed from SFO jet
Airports? Nah! Uber envisions new “vertiports” for flying cars
Air Canada’s got a classy new black-white-red look– like it? We do! But as usual with new liveries, there are a lot of naysayers.
Air Canada’s new black, white and red livery on a B787 Dreamliner (Image: Air Canada)
Regional carriers worst for mishandling bags
Ski train serving Denver-Winter Park with slopeside service
Most popular restaurants in 15 cities based on Uber drop off data- some interesting choices!
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Major airlines’ new “basic economy” fares hitting Spirit hard
Alaska says decision on Virgin America branding is coming next month
Why are airline computers crashing so much these days?
Dealing with work emails after hours can be bad for your health
Schiphol tests new scanner that lets passengers keep their shoes on
Singapore Airlines orders 39 new widebodies from Boeing
China plans to scan fingerprints of foreign visitors
Delta has designs on its tray tables- this is one of my favorite of the 12 works. Yours?
One of several new tray table designed on a Delta jet- thoughts?
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