by Janice Hough | Aug 24, 2009
Someone once said that “Minimum Connecting Time” is the amount of time it takes an Olympic sprinter to get between gates with no luggage. Whether or not you find that humorous may well depend if you have missed a flight lately. But increasingly, it does...
by Janice Hough | Aug 21, 2009
Leo Tolstoy once wrote, “All happy families are alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Almost the same might be said of on-time and delayed flights. Certainly, there seem to be a million reasons and combination of reasons that conspire to...
by Janice Hough | Aug 20, 2009
While Australia might be the trip of a lifetime, the fourteen-plus hour flight from the west coast of the U.S. to Sydney might be one of the most dreaded in aviation. Even in business class, and especially in economy. One of my co-worker’s clients actually had...
by Janice Hough | Aug 19, 2009
Travelers who want to have a basic idea of the odds of their flight being on time or not have to rely on last month’s data on most Web sites. Obviously, those are an inexact science at best and the information is dated. Flights within 15 minutes of scheduled...
by Janice Hough | Aug 18, 2009
Think of Boston, and for most people one thing that comes to mind is the famous Tea Party, when thousands of pounds of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor as a protest against taxes. Wonder what those patriots would think now? Boston City Council is expected to vote...
