Continuation of Award, click here Southwest Airlines is always my first choice for flying, and luckily it goes to most of the locations I’ve traveled. There are many pluses to choose Southwest over other airlines, in my opinion. Southwest has good rates, excellent customer service, is the only...

Two books on flying and airlines – I’ve just read Aloft , a collection of pieces by William Langewiesche which originally appeared in Atlantic Monthly or Vanity Fair . They include several of his classic analyses of aviation disasters – including the Colombia space shuttle –...

I was actually told to visit this site some time ago by my sister (who has a knack for sniffing out extraordinary sites), but never got around to doing so until today. Airline Meals is a site entirely dedicated to (surprise, surprise), Airline Meals . It has 8,484 images of airline meals from 534 airlines,...

Traveling is fun, it’s educational, interesting, and can be stress free. However, often people make travel confusing, difficult, and more stressful then it needs to be. How to travel is an important factor in the process and can enhance your experience or detract from it in a very negative way....

‘Skiing, Sand and Shopping in the World’s Weirdest City’ is the subtitle and it’s a good summation. I’m overdue for another visit to Dubai, I’ve not been back for a few years, but I’ve been there quite a few times since my first visit in 1999. I’ve been...

I’ve quoted that Joan Didion line before, that ‘the most beautiful things I had ever seen had all been seen from airplanes.’ And flying Melbourne-Singapore in a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 a couple of weeks ago I was reminded how true that can be. Crossing Australia there was this...