Sometimes companies don’t make the best decisions. Blackberry insisted that people wanted phones with keyboards, even though consumers had proven they preferred touchscreens. Thus, they went from having 43% of …
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Unpopular opinion: Sometimes all you need for the night is a clean, cheap hotel room. Nothing special. No shower with water coming from 6 different shower heads. No choice of …
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There seem to be two types of flyers: Those who would rather die than sit next to a kid on a plane (and, let’s face it – those could even …
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Weekly Recap
Southwest’s Change To Personal Bag Size, Countries With The Worst Behaved Tourists, United to Limit Basic Economy Fares
Hi, travel friends and happy Saturday! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV in the past few weeks. Some of our recent most-read posts have been: Southwest quietly …
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Everyone who travels has stories of vacations gone bad. Sometimes it’s missed, delayed or cancelled flights and being stranded for days on end (I’m looking at you, people who got …
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Planes being able to fly is all based on 4 forces: Drag: the force that acts in the opposite direction of the plane and slows the plane down Lift: the …
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Not long ago we wrote about how a few airlines were using new software that allowed flight attendants to leave notes to their peers about passengers’ personal details. At the …
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If there are 2 things I’m grateful for in the 2020s, it’s text messaging and larger overheads on planes. And guess what? United Airlines just combined the two. Wait, let …
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Clear Secure, Inc. is an American technology company that operates biometric travel document verification systems at some major airports and stadiums. Its most popular concept is used at airports. With …
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The TSA doesn’t make it a secret that it wants Americans (as well as people from a handful of other countries) to join TSA PreCheck. And no wonder – since …