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Low-Cost Carrier Marketing Shock and Awe
In today’s blog, I wanted to focus on some of the interesting low-cost carrier shock marketing techniques used by budget airlines, aka LCCs, to get the message across around their unbundled base fare offerings. First of all, let me introduce a few concepts. The first is the concept of a low-cost carrier, of LCC. Low-Cost Carriers…
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5 Best Airline Safety Videos
I’ve written a few deep dive blogs recently on creative, hilarious, and novel airline safety videos. We can all agree that the trend in aviation seems to be going in the direction of these types of airline safety videos – otherwise, how does an airline get a jaded passenger, who has perhaps flown hundreds of times, to…
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5 Most Delayed US Airports During Summer
Everybody loves to travel in the Summertime and it’s no secret that ticket prices are high in the summer. The simple rule of supply and demand will tell you to buy early because summertime demand for air travel is extremely high, especially in the US. Last week I focused on the busiest airports during summer…
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tripchi airport app update, Summer edition
July 2015 tripchi airport app update, Summer edition Summer is finally starting to heat up (if you’re on the northern hemisphere like us). Whether your summer brings camping and hiking (tripchi founder CJ recently partook in a Denver/Rocky Mountain camping adventure), or travelling to exotic places (like Mexico City and Cuba for CTO Eli), or visiting…
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5 Busiest Airports for July 4th Travel
It is here once again, the great day of July 4th. The celebration of Americas gained freedom from the grip of the British. It is my favorite holiday by far. For those of you outside the US and unfamiliar with the 4th of July it mostly involves enjoying the outdoors whether it be at a…
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Cleveland Hopkins International Airport Review
Cleveland has a reputation for being a bit of rough and tumble city. It is sometimes referred to as the “Mistake on the Lake” referring to when Lake Eire was set ablaze. Needless to say, I didn’t have a lot of hope for their airport. This was before I spent the weekend there. I found…
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Passenger IT Trends Survey 2015
The latest SITA 2015 Passenger IT Trends survey came across our desks a few weeks, so we though’t we’d share it with our readers. This is the 10th annual roll-up of the latest and greatest tech and IT trends taking place in airports today, sponsored by Air Transport World and SITA.
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Trip Report: Boston to Cleveland In Style
The title of this blog is slightly misleading. Flying in style usually doesn’t include Spirit Airlines but sometimes you can get lucky. My trip to the city by the lake was for pleasure and I was dead set and doing Spirit the right way this time, no carry-on, no buying seats, no extras of any…
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The Conspiracy Theory at Denver International Airport
Many of our tripchi readers have surely traveled through DEN – but if you’ve ever taken a slightly closely look as you’re transiting through, you may have noticed some subtly bizarre elements throughout the airport, leading quite a few people to suspect a conspiracy theory at Denver International Airport.
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Airport Review: RDU
Like I mentioned last week I speak some time down south in Raleigh, North Carolina for a wedding on Lake George if anyone out there has heard of it. First I focused on the on the flying and airline aspect, for this week I will apply the tripchi magnifying glass to the airport. This was…