Over at USA Today, Fivetravel writers have picked their favorite airports. You’ll probably need to use Internet Explorer to open it though, since it showed up terrible in my firefox (ugh..)

I think it’s a fairly interesting read. Note worthy facts:

• 2/5 of travel writers list LAX as least favorite airport.
• 1/5 states their least favorite airport is located outside the US (Lima, Peru)
• 2/5 of travel writers have Singapore, Changi as their favorite airport.
• 1/5 states they want restaurants nicer than Chili’s inside airports - Come on now, I’m a big fan of Chili’s.
• 2/5 feel the most annoying aspect of airports is security
• 2/5 complain of the uncomfortable chairs at North American airports

It will be interesting to see if Bangkok’s new Suvarnabhumi Airport makes the list in the future. The complaints about US airports are pretty common throughout the article. I thougt that was interesting. Peace.

[tags] airport, travel [/tags]

Darren Rowse from Problogger.net is having another group writing project. This project is to write a “How To” article. There are countless travel “how to”s in travel, so narrowing down what I should write about was difficult. Since it seems like a broad topic, I thought I’d write about something broad. So, I decided to write about how to travel.

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A Reuters article reports that the UK is planning to ease its airport security and restrictions next week. The article doesn’t cite new, specific restrictions. During the ban of liquids and the tough luggage rules, 2,000 flights were canceled.

The canceled flights hurt Brittish Airways most. They lost an estimated $75 million to stranded passengers for hotels and luggage losses. The budget airlines like Ryanair and easyJet were also hurt.

Additionally, the airport operator BAA, who operates London’s Heathrow, lost $25 million.

[tags] travel, heathrow [/tags]

The question of whether to book flights, hotels, and car rentals with a travel agent or online is one that has been plaguing competent computer users for the last several years now. The question has been asked many times, and the answers that you get in response usually consist of a personal bias of the answerer.

I planned on setting up a little controlled experiment, (more…)

If you would like to find an interesting travel destination you’ve never heard of, check out Budget Travel Online’s The best 25 places you’ve never heard of.

Africa Asia & Australia Central America Europe North America South America
After seeing the artice on the website, I immediately took the title as a challenge to my seemingly superior geography knowledge. I figured I would have known at least a third of the destinations….Then I read the article…and it turned out that I wasn’t too genious.

THE SCORECARD: the the bold destinations are the places I’ve heard of.

1. Sal, Cape Verde - I immediately thought Mexico, but no, it’s in Africa.
2. Siwa, Egypt - ?
3. Imlil, Morocco - Yes, I know this one. I saw it on a Morroccan map before I went there. (more…)

Bangkok’s new, hyped airport Suvarnabhumi (NBK) & (su-wan-na-poom) is expected to open on September 28, 2006 to replace the aging Don Mueang, Bangkok’s current international airport.

A recent Forbes article discusses the dark side of the recent air port opening. The Association of Thai Travel Agents (ATTA) warns that (more…)