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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…
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Delta Safety Video – Find the Meme
A couple weeks ago, I flew Delta for the first time in several years; not only was I pleasantly surprised by the flight experience end to end, but I also had an opportunity to preview their new in-flight Delta safety video. Take a look at the flight review here.
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Trip Report: Regional Flying to RDU
Flying regionally in the US can be a grind. Many 50 seater regional jets have gone the way of the dodo because they are tough to turn a profit on. Bombardier CRJ’s and Embraer E145’s are some of the smallest regional aircraft in the US market today. My latest trip to RDU allowed me to…
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Summerish tripchi airport app update
The latest news in airports, aviation and travel from the tripchi airport app team May 2015 recap, Summer-ish Here’s to the official start of Summer. Members on our team spent Memorial Day on a 4 day sailing adventure and surfing the waves of Hawaii. Whatever your start of Summer holds in store for you, the tripchi airport app is…
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Qatar Airways Comes to Boston
I have written numerous times about Boston Logan International Airport and their many international route additions within the last three years. Logan is my hometown airport, so I am slightly biases and very pleased they are expanding. They really do deserve credit for bringing in airlines from all over the world. With the economic boom occurring in…
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Spirit 719 Flight Review
Spirit 719 – Flight Background/Tickets This week’s Spirit 719 trip takes me from Denver to (hopefully) sunny Los Angeles to join my high school friends on a four day Memorial Day boat adventure (#boatlife). The flight actually has a planned stopover in Las Vegas, where some passengers will deplane and others will board. The gate…
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MIA Airport Review
Last week I traveled to MIA Airport as part of a multi-city work trip (see my blog about my exceptional Delta 1382 flight from DEN to ATL here). I was excited to return to MIA Airport after a 5 year hiatus, and even more excited to take some time to walk MIA and write a…
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Top 5 Annoying Airline Seatmates
Flying today can be a stressful endeavor and a good seatmate when you are flying solo is a crucial and horribly random. We have all been on a flight where our seatmate has severely put a damper on our experience. In the age of less seat pitch and decrease seat width, having an unruly seatmate…