We saw American’s “Low Fares to Hawaii” sale, which is mostly not a sale, just hype.  But it does include a couple of notables.  We also found a reasonable fare from Phoenix on US Airways worth mentioning. At this point, the fare sales are popping up, but they are still few and fare between. Pittsburgh [...]

TSA is once again testing scanners that are capable of detecting items hidden in shoes. Here’s a picture of one of the new devices:

I plan to take the confusion out of travel insurance over the next four weeks. Each Wednesday you can expect a different post on coverage areas. We’ll be looking at 28 in total. These coverage areas become a shopping list of sorts. Most policies include basic coverage for a variety of things, some of which [...]

American Airlines United Airlines Northwest Airlines Late last week, Standard & Poors downgraded the debt of these three huge airlines even further into the “junk” category. This is due to high fuel costs, a weakened economy and overall travel industry woes. S&P analyst Philip Baggaley said that this time the carriers are facing the upcoming [...]

We’ve been mentioning the usefulness of RSS readers. I use Google Reader and Rob uses Bloglines. Each works just fine. The point is that if you want to find and take advantage of all of today’s fleeting travel deals, we suggest you set up a reader, and I’ll use Google Reader as an example. Why [...]

We’ve seen some very unusual English language signs throughout Asia.  This one, however, we found just down the street, at Dani’s Restaurant in Lihue: If you find yourself on Rice Street, we like Dani’s for their perennially delicious banana pancakes, but frankly, not much else.  They only serve them until 11am.

1. Airline industry consolidation: You ain’t seen nothing yet. The airlines, which reported earnings over the past 10 days or so, have gotten a good degree of control back, in relation to oil prices. While that hasn’t sent them from losses to earnings, except in the case of Southwest, it has still eased the problem. [...]

American Airlines (AA) has severed its relationship with Kayak and possibly Orbitz. I wonder if this will be an isolated incident or represent the beginning of a significant industry trend. American says that reservations made on Kayak were linked through to Orbitz to complete the sale. This caused AA to pay a fee to both [...]