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MLK Day Airport Protests
If you happened to be at an airport during MLK Day today, you probably didn’t notice too many airports celebrating this historic day (to our disappointment). That said, you probably felt that Dr. King’s spirit was alive all the same if you witnessed airport workers’ protests at many airports across the country. There were several things these…
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Top Travel Brands
Diffbot recently put together a cool interactive infographic, highlighting the top travel brands by a variety of clever metrics. In this blog we’ll take a look at the findings. The first thing the infographic focused on was Airlines, as measured by the number of mentions on social media channels (but not the usual suspects). I…
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tripchi – it’s a New Year for 2016 travel
2015 wrap-up & New Year 2016 travel begins – tripchi airport app newsletter 2016 travel is upon us, and the hectic 2015 holiday travel season is at an end. I had a wonderful time vacationing with friends and family in Los Angeles, recovering from my second ankle surgery, even though I was again faced with a difficult holiday travel…
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Airport Festivities
This holiday season, many airport festivities were to be seen (and a few more coming), just like last year. Here’s a roll-up of some of the best airport festivities witnessed this holiday season.
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United E145 IAH-LFT Flight Review
A few months back, Melinda reviewed the Calgary International Airport (YYC), as well as her United YYC-IAH flight and the Houston Airport. Melinda is a self-described epitome of the reality side of ‘expectation vs reality’ in business travel. You’ll find her taking steerage class cabins to exotic locales like Elliot Lake, ON and Elko, NV, chasing her company’s aerial survey…
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tripchi benefits airports
I often highlight the benefits the tripchi airport app provides to the traveler; so, in this blog, I’d like to spend a few moments exploring how tripchi benefits airports. There are a number of services that tripchi provides that can augment an airport’s digital offering, helping them focus on their core mission of safely and profitably running…
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Denver Airport Hotel
A few weeks ago, Denver International Airport unveiled its new Denver Airport Hotel – the Westin Denver International Airport. I got an invitation to go to the opening day celebration (November 19), but unfortunately I wasn’t able to clear my schedule for the day. Luckily, several other reporters that I regularly follow (like Harriet Baskas) were…
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Celebrate Movember with tripchi November travel
Movember 2015 November travel with the tripchi airport app Happy Thanksgiving November travel hangover. I’m actually writing this from Los Angeles, so I had the privilege of visiting my most favorite (DEN) and my least favorite (LAX) airport in the past week. Despite the “LAX Makeover Coming Soon” signs that have been hanging around LAX for at least a…
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Competition in Aviation
A few weeks Hopper posted an interesting article about route competition in aviation, and specifically about what happens when a Low-Cost Carrier (LCC) enters into a market. The article starts out talking about the glory days of old, when savvy route-scourers could occasionally find super-cheap flights to desirable places (like a transatlantic flight to Europe), elevating…
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2015 Thanksgiving Travel
It’s that time of year again in North America when we get ready to loosen our waistbands and over-indulge on turkey, fix-ins, and pumpkin pie – that is if the Thanksgiving travel rush doesn’t get the better of our well-laid plans. According to Orbitz, 61% of Americans say they will travel for Thanksgiving, a 6% increase over…