Monthly Archives: July 2012

United Flight Diverted to Boston Due Bomb Scare

NYCAviation is reporting that United flight 956, Newark to Geneva, was off the coast of Nova Scotia when it turned back toward the United States, due to a suspicious package. Update: 9:26PM – According to @crimeboston, the United flight has…

Comair to Cease Operations

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  It is always sad when we lose another airline.   Delta will shut down its subsidiary Comair as of September 30th. The writing has been on the wall for a long while. Comair primarily operates 50-seat regional jets, an…

Welcome to the Self-Service World

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Everything in this world changes. As time goes by, we discover that more and more business interactions are being automated. This is simply the way things are going. Talking to a human being is now a perk, a frill. In…

Alleged Competence at the TSA

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The Transportation Security Administration exists. The TSA has a blog at blog.tsa.gov. The stated purpose of the blog is to “facilitate an ongoing dialogue on innovations in security, technology and the checkpoint screening process.” The demonstrated purpose of said blog…

Test Out an Ikea Bedroom at the Airport

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Ikea has set up shop in several interesting places over the years.  It was only a few years ago that Ikea set up shop at Washington’s Union Station to make its bid to redecorate the Oval Office. Now, Ikea is…

Solving the Oversized Carryon Bag Problem

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One of the side effects of increased checked bag charges is that more people are trying to cram all of their items into their carry-ons. Spirit Air tried to address this by charging for carry-on bags, but we like a…

Moving from the PNR to the Customer Record

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In the airline industry, the passenger name record(PNR), is a single record in a computer reservation system that contains a single reservation for one or more passengers. The problem is that PNRs have no memory. They represent one trip. They…

Six Years of Flight Wisdom

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From the Editor When I first started with Flight Wisdom, we had a very different conception of what it would be. At the end of this month, we celebrate our six year anniversary. The first post was dated July 29,…