Archive for September, 2006
Travel Writers’ favorite Airports
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Over 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 [...]
How To Travel
Tuesday, September 19th, 2006Darren 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, [...]
UK Eases Airport Security
Thursday, September 14th, 2006A 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 [...]
Travel Agent or Online Booking
Monday, September 11th, 2006The 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 [...]
Travel somewhere you’ve never heard of
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006If 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 [...]
Bangkok Thailand airport Suvarnabhumi opening?
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006Bangkok’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
