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Win A Seat Next To Randy Petersen … Yes, That Randy!

Do you like travel? Yearn for more time in an airline seat? Enjoy conversing with  semi-bald white haired gentlemen who seems to only wear Nike sneakers?  Then have I got a contest for you!   Between today, the 1st of October and this coming Sunday, the 7th of October, you’ll have the opportunity to win…

Getting Visually Creative With Lufthansa’s Airbus A380

This past Sunday evening, as the sun was setting over Frankfurt Airport, I had the opportunity to wander freely around a Lufthansa Airbus A380-800 at a Lufthansa Technik hanger as a guest of the airline. Yesterday I wrote about the A380’s three classes of cabins and what passengers can expect on board … today, it’s…

Frequent Flyer Miles, the insanity, the addiction … the documentary

While I am not mileage runner as an airline traveller I probably have what some may consider an unhealthy interest in gaining miles. I have been known to fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles using New York as my connection point, or fly to Hong Kong via Frankfurt to pick up a few thousand…

Mileage Runs Explained

I have previously written about frequent flyer mileage runs, frequent flyer elite status and other related frequent flyer junkie topics on Flying With Fish … and have more than once found myself explaining the benefits of both frequent flyer elite status and mileage runs in other various mediums. The practice of making mileage runs and…

A Run In With The TSA “Respect My Authority” Attitude … it was bound to happen

Readers frequently write me complaining of their interactions with the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) front line Transportation Security Officers (TSO). For the most part over the past few years my interactions with the TSA’s front line agents have been generally been fairly uneventful … even pleasant at times … although I knew at some point…

Flying With Fish Ranked Fifth Most Trusted Authority In Online Travel!

Last week RockCheetah, a global hospitality and travel industry strategy and technology consulting agency hosted a poll to determine Who is the Most Trusted Authority in Online Travel? Out of 47 top industry professional listed in the poll, Flying With Fish ranked as the #5 Most Trusted Authority In Online Travel. The competition and caliber…

Who Can Make An International Airline Awards Show Fun and Lighthearted? Fish Can!

Web: www.thetravelstrategist.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 22/04/2009 – Who Can Make An International Airline Awards Show Fun and Lighthearted? Fish Can! Tomorrow night, the 23rd of April 2009 the dingy red carpet (probably snagged from an airline’s ‘elite boarding line’ while no one was looking) will be rolled out at Fort Lauderdale International Airport’s Hilton Hotel…

2008’s Year In Review Of Flying With Fish

Web: www.comeflywithfish.com — E-Mail: fish@flyingwithfish.com 31/12/2008 – 2008’s Year In Review Of Flying With Fish Another year has passed, and for Flying With Fish this marks the end of the second full year of Flying With Fish.   This year has seen Flying With Fish grow farther than I could have imagined! At the end of…