SATA Internacional is an airline operating out of the Azores, and originated from the acquisition of Oceanair by its subsidiary, SATA Air Açores, in 1994. It’s one that I knew little about until a generous reader who does a bit of marketing work for them reached out and offered up their Plus class amenity kit,…
Limited Time Chase Ink Offers for Small Business Week
[Edited June 24, 2013: The limited time offers described below are no longer available.] Chase is supporting Small Business Week through June 22, 2013 with limited-time offers on its popular Ink business cards. I wrote previously how the Ink Plus® Business Card is among My Top 3 Travel Credit Cards for airline and hotel redemptions,…
A Father’s Day Tribute to My Dad, Aviation Style
If you recall from my Mother’s Day post, I have a wonderful Mom who snuck through a side door of United’s headquarters in the 1980s to buy me something unique for my birthday from their logo shop. My Dad is equally fantastic and did everything he could to encourage and foster my passion for airlines,…
World’s Best Airline Meals and My Top 5 Picks
You don’t hear as many jokes these days about airplane food as you did years ago when airlines served a hot meal – to all passengers – on just about every flight lasting more than 1.5 hours. But airline food remains a popular topic and I’ve been assigned the task to come up with a…
United Nears 100% Lie-Flat, American Launches Dublin Route With Bonus Offer
Here are a couple of quick airline updates from press releases issued by American and United today. United Offers Flat-Bed Seats on “All†Long-Haul International Flights United Airlines now features 180-degree flat-bed seats and personal on-demand entertainment in the premium cabins on all scheduled, long-haul international flights from the airline’s eight North American hubs and…
The Evolution of Airline Logos and Branding
Here’s an interesting look at the evolution of various airline logos, some going as far back nearly 90 years. My favorites are Air France (1970-2004), American Airlines (1960-2013), Monarch (2002-2009), Qantas (1984-2007), Swissair (1981-2002), and the Saul Bass United Airlines design (1974-1993). Which are your favorites? Thanks to @AirlineSector for tweeting this out yesterday, as…
Amenity Kit Review: Turkish Airlines Comfort Class (Premium Economy)
I tend to only review business class and first class kits, but Turkish Airlines provides its premium economy “Comfort Class†passengers a substantial offering worthy of a detailed inspection, and I offer my critique below in this installment of Amenity Kit Reviews. Also, a special thanks goes out to Inflight Feed for sending this kit…
Blog Giveaway: Two United Club One-Time Passes
Blogger buddy Bruce over at NonRevAdventure.com is generously giving away two United Airlines one-time passes to the United Club. All you have to do is leave a comment on his blog with your biggest travel mishap, mistake, error, failure, etc. Click here to enter. He will pick one the winner at random this Wednesday, June…
Vintage Airline Seat Map: Delta Air Lines Boeing 737-200 – Version 2
There were two different seating configurations for Delta’s Boeing 737-200s flying the skies back in 1987, one of which I previously posted. Here is the second version for this installment of Vintage Airline Seat Maps. The seat map appearing below sports 8 seats in first class and 107 in coach, which was the most common…
Is It Really That Hard to Redeem Frequent Flier Miles?
A couple of articles caught my attention this week about the difficulty some travelers have redeeming frequent flier miles. The first is from the Daily Mail, and setting my opinion of the publication itself aside, I read through the article. About 1,000 British fliers were surveyed and asked about their participation in an airline’s frequent…