RichC | June 14, 2024
After chatting with Brenda’s sisters and brother-in-laws about booking flights for a trip together, I mentioned that I was partial to Southwest Airlines. My brother-in-laws are both Delta fliers … and have a long history of booking business travel with the major airlines — I did feel as if I were ruffling feathers (text updates […]
Category: Advice, AI, Aviation, Technology, Tidbits, Travel |
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Tags: ai, airlines, artificial intelligence, assistant, booking, Computer, delta, kiplinger, search, southwest, tech friday, techfriday, tools
RichC | May 13, 2023
Which airline do you fly most often? We had a bad experience last summer on AirCanada and probably won’t ever flight with them again … on the other hand, we fly Southwest all the time and thankfully didn’t fly during their “meltdown (click charts for larger).” Even after the December 2022 flightmare by Southwest Airlines, […]
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Tags: airlines, delta, rankings, southwest, wsj
RichC | September 14, 2022
Read an interesting Washington Post article (PDF ReaderView archive) this past week discussing Southwest Airlines “open seating policy” and challenges in landing preferred seating without paying a premium – although, “the only way to guarantee an early boarding position is to pay,” wrote James Bikales. Still some of us make a game of trying to […]
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Tags: air travel, airlines, booking, flights, open seating, southwest, southwestair, washington post
RichC | November 20, 2021
Brenda and I flew to Florida with a “use it or lose it” expiring Southwest Airline ticket …and hopefully as a way to earn a future companion-pass ticket (we’ll see how that goes). We were there for a long weekend and to enjoy a couple days at the condo and the beach. Unfortunately I wasted […]
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Tags: brenda, condo1718, delray beach, florida, flowers, richc, shells, snails, southwest, ticket
RichC | June 28, 2020
Flew on the airlines for the first time since COVID19 to Florida via Baltimore (photo BWI terminal above) last week and thankfully the flights and negotiating the airport was uneventful. Besides a computer glitch which backed up lines on check in, everything else went smoothly. It is yet to be seen if the rise in […]
Category: Archive, Friends, Misc, Personal, Photos, Sailing, Travel |
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Tags: airlines, cleaning, condo1718, coronavirus, covid19, crosley, dar jones, encore, friends, mark jones, Photos, record player, repair, southwest, Travel
RichC | January 3, 2018
Before sending another check to the guy I have doing some bottom work on Encore, I really need to inspect the work. I don’t want him to stop working, but I don’t want bottom paint slapped on the new epoxy fiberglass repair before double checking the layers, fairing and keel work and epoxy barrier coats […]
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Tags: dar, encore, flights, florida, friends, jones, mark, southwest, Travel
RichC | June 17, 2015
Now I’ll be the first to admit, I spend too much time agonizing over purchasing things wondering if I’m buying the right model or brand … and am I paying too much. The Internet has only complicated matters since there is even more information to process. It’s the same thing when booking travel … although […]
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Tags: airlines, booking, decisions, delta, flights, southwest, Travel
RichC | April 3, 2011
Citizen journalism was alive and well (‘alive’ being the appropriate word) this weekend as an emergency landing was made by a Southwest jet in Yuma Arizona. Shawna MalviniRedden, a blogger at The Bluest Muse, ‘tweeted’ comments and photos. Shortly after take off the Boeing 737 had a hole 5 foot long and 1 foot wide […]
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Tags: airlines, airplane, aviation, boeing 737, southwest