Category: travel

United And Gogo Speed Up Wireless On PS Fleet

If you remember a few months back, I reviewed Gogo’s inflight wifi and thought it was nice, but a little slow. Well, that’s about to change. Gogo is tripling speeds starting in 2013 on United Airlines’s Premium Service flights (AKA Their transcons) from 3.1 MBPs to 9.8 MBPs using their new ATG-4 technology. As someone who uses every wifi source known to man, I...

2 Fantastic Apps For Frequent flyers, and Flight Fanatics

Are you a frequent flyer? Do you live and breath flyertalk? Do you know your frequent flyer number better than your phone number? If the answer is yes to any of these questions then I have two fantastic app recommendations for you to stare at seat maps… and do other things. Jets Jets ($2.99) is a slightly overpriced seat map app with an intuitive...

Travel Without Technology Really Sucks

Hey fellow nerds. I recently flew on Continental Airlines, and for the first time in years I was carrying neither my iphone, nor my Macbook Pro. The only technology I had was my ipod nano, and it was buried in my bag. To make things worse, I didn’t have my wallet to pay for TV because I left my wallet on the last plane...

Answers To Star Alliance Global Pursuit Facebook Contest

I today entered the Star Alliance Global Pursuit Contest on Facebook. The winner of this cool Facebook contest wins a business class trip with a friend around the world on a custom route. To make things easier for people I posted all of the answers below. Creds to http://forums.redflagdeals.com/ for a lot of help. I did factcheck all of these answers and they appear to be...

Twitter- A Frequent flyer for Airlines

Jetblue Twitter Support Room In the Airline industry the service seems to get worse and worse every day and airlines have become less accessible. People wait on the phone from five minutes to two hours when the airlines are busy just to talk to some indian call rep. We’ve all been on that phone call before. Airlines such as Delta, and Jetblue are working...