The Aggravation of Commercial Air Travel

One doesn’t have to spend a great deal of time flying these days to reach the point where they despise air travel. Actually, it’s not the travel part so much as the waiting, the lines, the delays, hassles, lost luggage, sardine seats, and so on.
There is little else that can set me off as much [...]

Airline Reward Programs Have Become Worthless

Airline frequent flyer programs have always been marketing tools but nothing like they are today. Used to be that the rewards they offered were somewhat desirable and even useful – enough so to entice one to show some loyalty when choosing who to fly on that next trip.
Nowadays they’re mostly pure hype. They still claim [...]