Yup It used to be a Southwest Airlines seat. I could have sat in this luggage. I love the design - but I'm not sure how to feel about the fact that it was once a seat.

LUV Your Luggage Once Again

It’s a well known fact that #Avgeeks can develop rather…strange collections over time. Some collect models of the airplanes they live on. Others like to collect relics from past flights. But how about capturing a piece of an airline seat? No, I’m not talking about buying airline seats (as if you would really want to…

Leaked Southwest Airlines Livery

Do you LUV or hate the new Southwest Livery?

Last night, in the midst of Notre Dame shutting out Michigan, a photo of a potential new Southwest Livery was leaked. Airline Reporter covered it, along with Frontier’s new livery.The leaked livery isn’t a huge change.By my eye, its a bit brighter, but really, the biggest change is the location and font of “Southwest”. Take…

Why is Key West EYW and other fun Airport Code history

H/T View from the WingOn an idle Saturday, in between watching Star Trek: The Final Frontier and waiting to watch Notre Dame (hopefully) beat Michigan, I happened to see a post from Gary and View from the Wing on the secrets of airport codes. I thought I’d offer some additional thoughts on decrypting airport codes.I’ve…

Observations from Flying @AmericanAir Trans-Pacific

IntroductionA few weeks ago, I took my wife to Seoul, South Korea for a long weekend to celebrate her birthday. We found what I had thought was a great premium fare (later finding out, it wasn’t as great), and figured, why not? Brass ring, right? So we did it.We had been to Seoul before, but…

Avgeek Christmas in July (aka Farnborough 2014 airshow)

Like many avgeeks, I was glued to YouTube for a bit today watching some of the great flight displays from Farnborough Airshow.. There was some news out of the day as well, so I thought I’d offer a few observations and some of the best stuff I’ve seen.News Airbus announced it will offer A330neo (new engine…

What are Fifth Freedom Routes?

The Fifth Freedom of the Air is quite in vogue as of late – especially with the big three Gulf Carriers. Simply put, fifth freedom rights allow an air carrier to carry passengers from one’s own country A, to country B, and onward to country C, with the permission to sell tickets for each leg.…

International Travel Checklist

Preparing for an overseas trip

So, I’m heading overseas for a long weekend trip, and I thought it would be interesting to share my “process” for preparing for a trip.In this case, I’m heading to Seoul, South Korea. I’ve been there before, so the preparation is a little easier. Generally, I keep a word document (which I then e-mail to…