To say that Jeff Smisek’s tenure as CEO of the combined United/Continental airlines has been dismal is probably something of an understatement at this point. In so many ways, he’s taken two airlines that were better separately and made the combined entity worse. Much worse.
So the reporting of ongoing failures is hardly surprising. But in some ways, this tweet from @United sort of summed up the current degree of FAIL at the airline:
So, there are a couple
Several weeks ago, I had a flight to Tulsa cancel on me about an hour before departure, due to an odd combination of weather and runway construction at the Tulsa airport.
I tried to get on a later flight (full, unfortunately), and ultimately wound up not going (flights with available seats the next day would not have gotten me to the funeral I wanted to get to).
Interestingly, the flight I tried to get on later that night wound up
BACKGROUND:
Callie and I returned a little earlier from a same-day trip from Houston to Seattle (or, IAH-SEA, to use the airport codes) that kicks off this year’s efforts to requalify as gold elites on Continental/Star Alliance. We traveled on a
We stumbled in and crashed close to midnight last night after a LONG day of travel (nearly a full day).
The islands of Samos and Patmos (especially Patmos) were a lovely escape. I’ll post lots of photos to flickr at some point.
It’s definitely nice to be home, although I have to admit wondering if it wouldn’t be nicer to have a small internet cafe or some other biz on a Greek island some days. Probably not in the winter,
Web Worker Daily put up a GREAT post couple of weeks ago entitled “How Travel Veterans Pack For a Trip.”
I’m not going to excerpt from it, because every single bullet point is good advice worth following.
But I will elaborate on some of their points (so go read, then come back)….
First of all, I try not to check bags (like any experienced traveler). Checking bags is a recipe for trouble. It sometimes can’t be avoided (I do