American Cheese
Posted on July 13, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Culture, Food & Wine, Misc. | Leave a Comment
Maybe it reveals me as the pious food snob that I am, but today, in a Continental jet wafting over Winnemucca I stare at a sealed, steamed-up baggie labeled “Pierre Creations: Charbroiled Beef With American Cheese†wondering just what it would taste like. First, I was stunned to get a meal on a plane, the [...]
Read More..>>Where’s The Kibbles: Why We Rate Cat Food Over Air Travel
Posted on May 24, 2007 - Filed Under Video, Airlines, News | Leave a Comment
Cats, as you are well aware, know more than we do. I asked both of our cats, Max and Moritz, about that and they responded with their inscrutable “I don’t suffer fools” look. Every time I travel, Max plants himself inside of my open suitcase marking my black sweaters with tufts of fuzz while Moritz [...]
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Where's The Kibbles: Why We Rate Cat Food Over Air Travel [4:01m]: 2007:A Baggage Odyssey
Posted on February 9, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Audio, News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
It is one of the best uses of music in a movie ever. In Stanley Kubrik’s classic “2001: A Space Odyssey, a bunch of crunky old rocket ships drift around space waltzing to the Blue Danube. Why does that make me think of airline baggage: “Look, there’s a flaming chunk of Samsonite reentering the atmosphere… [...]
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2007:A Baggage Oddessy [2:34m]: United Points: Spend ‘em If You Got ‘em…Quick!
Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under Airlines, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
I have a gazillion (or maybe half that) frequent flier points on United, a carrier that I have attempted to avoid over the past few years because of some REALLY BAD EXPERIENCES, like not being given a boarding pass because the airline was holding out for people on an overbooked flight that paid more than [...]
Read More..>>Airline Math: Jet Blue Increases Leg Room
Posted on December 19, 2006 - Filed Under Airlines, Audio, News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
“There are things we know that we don’t know.â€
Donald Rumsfeld
I have always thought airline math was as twisted as political rhetoric. As someone who was forced at quill-point to study the value and foibles of statistics and who for many years lived down the rabbit hole of the broadcasting business (a little too close to [...]
