Because of the oddball way they allow seating, Southwest has had their own method to allow family seating. From their website: Southwest offers Family Boarding, which occurs after the “A” …
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Debit cards have been around since the mid-1960s. They are, of course, similar to a credit card, but unlike a credit card, the money for a person’s purchases must be …
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Funny Stuff
Southwest Isn’t the Only Airline SNL’s Lampooned; Just The Latest
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegIt doesn’t matter if you watched Saturday Night Live this past weekend or not. By the time Monday rolled around, just about everyone had seen the skit the show had …
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Alaska Airlines says it is planning on expanding its fast in-flight Wi-Fi service to its Embraer 175 regional jets. In a partnership with Intelsat, Alaska reports it will begin introducing …
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What you gotta go, you gotta go. And unfortunately, it’s never been super easy to find free places to “go” in New York City. Way back when, I wrote a …
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To the cheers of non-smokers (and groans of smokers) everywhere, Mexico just put into place one of the most stringent anti-smoking rules in the world. Since 2008, Mexico has only …
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Travel
This Hotel Was A Lawsuit in Waiting. They’ve Now Got Bigger Problems
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegI wrote a piece a while back about a hotel that had a then-new tourist attraction. At the time, it was the poster child for, as my mom used to …
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Airports
History: Why Hamad Int’l Airport Has a 23ft. Teddy Bear on Display
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegQatar’s Hamad International Airport (DOH), located east of the country’s capital of Doha, opened its doors in April, 2014. Originally scheduled to open in 2008, it suffered through several costly …
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Tips and Tricks
Samantha Brown’s Genius Hack For Preboarding With Kids/Babies
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegJoe and I don’t have children. We don’t even have nieces and nephews (an only child who married an only child; go figure!). So it’s rare that we pay a …
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Hotels
Even These 5-Star Hotels on TripAdvisor Can Get Crappy Reviews
by SharonKurhegby SharonKurhegTrip Advisor’s main business goal is to make money as an online travel agency. However thanks to its age (just shy 23 years) and size (reviews on roughly 8 million …