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Flight Wisdom Briefing 6

guru — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:56:31 +0000

This is Briefing 6. Welcome to our new subscribers on iTunes. Since last time, we did a bit of a movie opener in honor of Peter Graves and Airplane, we decided to try another random one that had been lurking in our heads. Feel free to tweet or comment with the movie title if you recognized it. We'll continue to adjust the opening and closing until we find one or several with enduring amusement. If this is how it sounds at Brief 6, imagine how good we'll be at it by Brief 60. Keep listening.

Continental to Become Last Domestic Carrier to End Meal Service

guru — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:28:49 +0000

The Examiner reports that Continental Airlines will end its free meal program on flights shorter than six hours. We always find it amusing that companies, airline or not, spin taking away services that were previously free and replacing them with a paid option as an improvement for their customers. Certainly, we demand that if we pay for it, it be a better quality experience, but beyond that...

In Honor of Peter Graves – Watch Airplane this Monday

guru — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:06:40 +0000

In honor of Peter Graves, who unfortunately passed away Sunday evening at the age of 83, we present a tribute to him in the form of the movie Airplane!, in which he starred as Captain Clarence Oveur. We here at Flight Wisdom have decided to schedule a group watching of Airplane. So, everyone break out your copy of Airplane. We'll be doing this at 8PM Eastern Time the evening of March 15, 2010 and again at 12AM Eastern. We'll be using a web-based chatroom if anyone wants to join us and will tweet the location a few minutes beforehand on Twitter @FlightWisdom.

Flight Wisdom Briefing 5

guru — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:58:13 +0000

We wanted to get a special release of the briefing in commemoration of Peter Graves.

Flight Wisdom Briefing 4

guru — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:49:43 +0000

Thus ends the first week of the Flight Wisdom Briefing. How are you enjoying it so far? Comments are open, as in Twitter. If you are interested in submitting a commercial aviation related story to the Briefing, please contact us. We'll be back next week with new briefs and we'll keep tweaking it to try to make it better for you.

Flight Wisdom Briefing 3

guru — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:51:40 +0000

Image by Dave Sizer via Flickr As we continue to perfect the Brief, we offer a new opener, as well as a tribute to this Day in Aviation History. Tune in. Notes: American Eagle’s New Service to Augusta WestJet Launches New Frequent Flier Program 787 Begins First Flight Tests outside of Washington United orders 25 A350XWBs Continental Airlines calls Tarmac Delay Rules [...]

WestJet May Have the Right Idea with its New Loyalty Program

guru — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:31:28 +0000

WestJet has launched a new frequent flier program, called the Frequent Guest program. Now, the way that they are organizing this program is unique. It seems to be a program for the average flier, rather than the frequent flier. We recently bemoaned the fact that airlines have effectively devalued their miles by allowing people to accumulate them on every credit card purchase. We know this is a good deal for them, and for many consumers, but it devalues the definition of the term frequent flier. These companies keep devaluing their miles and limiting the number of award seats.

Flight Wisdom Briefing 2

guru — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:57:46 +0000

For those of you who enjoyed the first brief, here's the second one. If you want to subscribe to the brief in your podcatcher, our podcast only RSS feed is here.

Flight Wisdom Briefing #1

guru — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:37:41 +0000

We've decided to try a little experiment here at Flight Wisdom. We're going to record our news and service roundups that you can subscribe and listen to in your favorite podcast software. The new service, which we are calling the Flight Wisdom Briefing, will, if popular, come out at least once a week, if not more, depending on the volume of news to report, and will be supported by links in the post for each episode.

Bereavement Fares and Flying in an Emergency

guru — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:18:11 +0000

We've spoken on the issue of Bereavement Fares before. Bereavement Fares are discounts offered by the airline to those traveling in a death situation.They were usually flat-rate discounts off the unrestricted(highest) fares. In the old days, that could be a significant savings. Now, with such a wide gap between lowest and highest...not so much. You might as well pay the normal fare.