Yesterday fellow BoardingArea blogger Marshall Jackson wrote “Advice on How to Talk to an Airline Employee From an ex-Airline Employee,” which is really a good read, but it got me thinking. Travel can be stressful, things can happen quickly that are unfavourable for passengers, sometimes due to their mistakes, sometimes due to circumstances out…
Travel and Twitter go hand-in-hand, and there are so many different types of travel tweeters that it is hard to decide who is the best. Among some of my personal favourite travel tweeters you’ll find travel journalists, airline bloggers, travel agents, flight attendants, adventure travelers, photographers and a diverse group of others … so ……
What’s on your schedule for today, May 29th, at 3:30pm EDT (UTC -4)? Well whatever that is, pencil in The Travelers’ Night In (#TNI) Travel Chat on Twitter. This week’s #TNI #Travel Chat topic, is sure to make you laugh, remind you of the quirky fun of travel and hopefully get you to share your…
If you spend enough time dealing with airport security, especially researching it and writing about it, sometimes you just need a laugh. Well, this morning I was sent a cartoon that blended my need to laugh and my need to stay somewhat focused on aviation security. So … I am passing this laughter on to…
What can one say about Canada’s WestJet? The airline is expanding. The company’s corporate culture is unique. The brand image is based on being helpful, transparent and lighthearted. The message is often unexpected, off the cuff and just brilliant. I have previously written about WestJet’s use of Twitter and WestJet’s brilliant April Fools videos,…
If you are reading this blog post you are using a Travel Social Media channel. If you found the blog post via Twitter, then you are familiar with engaging directly in Social Media to seek out Travel content. Many people dream of traveling the world, many dream of making a living Tweeting and posting…
As some of you know I run the weekly #TNI #Travel Chat every Thursday ay 3:30pm EST/12:30pm PST. Each week #TNI discusses a new topic, covering nearly every travel topic you could think of since it was founded in 2009, and runs for 90 minutes, with 10 questions being asked every 10 minutes. This…
Travel is an uncertainty. The best laid plans can go out the window in an instant and if you travel enough, at some point you’ll probably find yourself waking on a bench somewhere needing to look put together and professional to walk into a meeting … or at the best least to be sanitary and…
What better way to jump back into writing Flying With Fish than pulling out some reader mail … it has been piling up. I have been answering many via email directly, some on Twitter, but jumping back in with Reader mail just seems like the best way to get back rolling. This Reader Mail…
The sun is shining, the weather is warm, and a U.S. Air Force C-130 is flying low overhead, now seems like a good time to get back to Flying With Fish. I want to thank everyone who has emailed me, or found me on Twitter to ask if I would be getting back to…
