22/1/2010 – Happy 40th Birthday To The Boeing 747 Forty years ago today history was made as the iconic Boeing 747 took to the skies for its first revenue passenger flight. While Pan Am had intended for the first Boeing 747 revenue passenger flight to be on the 21st of January, an engine overheating delayed…
21/1/2010 – iPhone App of the Week : The Boarding Pass An informed traveller is a better traveller…from choosing an airline to choosing a connection hub airports, the more you know the better off you are. While all user opinion websites, message boards and iPhone Apps are subjective; they are still a valuable resource for…
20/1/2010 – Southers Withdraws From TSA Nomination : The TSA’s Saga For A Leader Continues The Transportation Security Administration has been without a permanent leader since the start of the President Obama’s term a year ago. Since the creation of the TSA a mere 8 years ago, the agency has been lead by four Administrators…
20/1/2010 – The Long Haul Netbook : EeePC’s 1005HA Have you ever boarded a flight from New York to Paris and wished you could watch the entire Jason Bourne Trilogy of movies on your laptop … ummm … I mean do you wish you could work from wheels up to wheels down on the flight?…
19/1/2010 – Canada-to-US Flights Allow Carry On Baggage Again For photographers today’s very poorly publicized announcement from Transport Canada should allow many to exhale with a sigh of relief. Beginning tomorrow, the 20th of January, passengers flying from Canada to the United States may board their flights with a full size carry on bag, measuring…
19/1/2010 – So…I Got A Phone Call From The US Congress… Last week while heading out to pick my kids up at the bus stop I receive an unexpected phone call. Of course given that I never expected two Federal Agents to show up at my door one evening, nothing should phase me, but this…
18/1/2010 – Fish’s Top Five iPhone Apps for Travel If I had a dollar for every time I was asked “What are your top five iPhone Apps” … well I’d have an iPhone 3Gs instead of an iPhone 3G. Choosing my top five favourite travel apps for the iPhone was a series of difficult choices….
18/1/2010 – Oh Canada … No Carry On Bags … What Is A Photog To Do? The war on terror takes many forms and the target of terrorism seems to have a very clear primary target … The United States of America. Given the obvious target of terrorists it makes absolute sense that nearly a…
7/1/2010 – iPhone App of the Week : Survey On The Spot (TSA Survey) Your experience at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints may vary widely from airport to airport and even at different check points within an airport. Overall whether you agree or disagree with TSA policy the frontline Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) are polite,…
6/1/2010 – Follow Up On The Whole TSA Debacle I have thought long and hard about my follow up post to questioning a TSA Special Agent misplacing a notebook used in the investigation of how I obtained a copy of Security Directive SD-1544-09-06. In response the enquiries surrounding the misplaced notebook by the TSA Special…
