Category: travel

Review: Bose QC 15 Noise Cancelling Headphones

If Bose Audio were a car company, they would be the Rolls Royce. Bose is a trusted, timeless luxury brand of headphones, and the advanced audio technology they’ve developed over their 50 year history (ancient in the audio industry) shows in their incredible QC 15s which I have been happily using for a year now. Side note: Good to see we’re all alive on...

Should Free In-Flight Wifi be a First Class Perk?

If you remember WAY back, I wrote about my experience with Gogo Inflight Internet, and seriously, internet makes the difference between a boring flight, and a productive flight. But current internet is prohibitively expensive for its’ speed. A one day pass on Gogo costs  $14. In an age where domestic airlines are trying to differentiate without raising costs, I was wondering why none of...

10 Tech Tips for Surviving an Airport Delay

Flights are never on time. I had a 4 leg trip earlier this year where 3/4 legs were delayed by over an hour with perfect weather. Today I write this while waiting out a 2+ hour delay. So how do you survive it? Be prepared. Here are my tips.   Bring headphones. I bring my noise canceling Bose QC 15s and they save my life. I...

American Air Merger Revealed? False Rumor Secrets

People in the milleage community have been abuzz over an alleged clue towards a potential American Airlines and US Air merger. The clue was a Star Alliance logo in an alleged Apple marketing material using an AA logo (US is in Star, but not AA). In truth though, it was simply a hoah using a cleverly modified real Apple marketing material. Notice that everything...

Are you an Apple Genius? [Video]

Apple released a new series of commercials featuring the Apple genius during the olympics and they crack me up. The sense of urgency with such minor problems makes these quite funny. Apple hasn’t had many Mac commercials recently so its’ nice to see they still care about the Macs and not just IOS. Here’s my favorite below (It helps that I’m an airline mileage...