Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 15/04/2009 – United Airlines Institutes Two-Seat Requirement For “Customers Of Size” United Airlines appears to be following the lead of Southwest Airlines in regard to seating accommodations for passengers who cannot comfortably sit in a single seat. While United instituted the “Passengers Requiring Extra Space” policy on the 4th of…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 15/04/2009 – The Pelican 1514 Case : A Bag You Can Check Under The Plane & Know Your Gear Is Safe In Few travel cases can withstand the significant abuse of hard travel. The limitations of most bags and cases become more prevalent for photographers due to traveling with not…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 15/04/2009 – The Passenger Experience Can Create Friendly Skies Or Unfriendly Skies This morning I found an interesting story on The Consumerist, by way of a fantastic airline industry blog Shashank Nigam’s SimpliFlying (www.simpliflying.com). This story details how a woman and her boyfriend were trying to catch a United Airlines…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 14/04/2009 – Your Passport Is Not Optional For International Travel This morning I received an e-mail from a photography colleague on a topic I had never really given much thought to. The e-mail asked me the best way to make a durable copy of a passport for his daughter’s study…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 14/04/2009 – Passenger Airlines & Cargo Revenue, Is Potential Income Being Ignored? In the current economic state of global airlines, are many passenger airlines ignoring the significant potential in transporting revenue cargo along with passengers? According to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), of the top 25 passenger airlines in…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 13/04/2009 – Airline Bereavement Fares, Are They Worth It? Late on Saturday evening I received e-mail from an old friend from school asking me if I could help him find a last minute low cost fare to Phoenix (PHX) so he could attend his Grandmother’s funeral. During our brief e-mails…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 10/04/2009 – Why Do Flyers Choose A Specific Airline : My Son’s Opinion Recently I have been very focused on business and policy issues related to airline travel. My focus on what attracts frequent flyers to airlines has been driving much of my research and been useful to clients…however my…
Web: www.twitter.com/flyingwithfish — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 09/04/2009 – iPhone ‘App’ Of The Week : GoodFood Everyone needs to eat, on the road or at home.  While I have managed to travel around the world in a single trip while eating all my meals in airline lounges and in-flight, most travelers choose to eat somewhere outside of…
Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 08/04/2009 – Anti-Trust Immunity, Airline Alliances & You I am sure that very few people ever give a second thought to anti-trust laws, international airlines alliance and how it could possibly affect them. If you are a frequent flyer, this issue does affect you, even if you do not realize…
Web: www.stevenfrischling.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 07/04/2009 – Photography & TSA Airport Security Checkpoints…Its OK! Over the past few years photographers in the United States have run into some significant difficulties when photographing near Transportation Security Administration (TSA) airport security checkpoints and directly photographing TSA checkpoints. Some incidents have resulted in a lecture others in photographers…
