US Airways is offering ten minutes of free Gogo Wi-Fi by entering promo code USFREE10. Gogo is available exclusively on US Airways' A321 aircraft and standard rates run from $4.95, depending on the type of device you have and flight length.

10 minutes is almost enough time to log-in and check a few e-mails! But still better than zero minutes...

It would have come in handy on my last US Airways flight.

Swiss, Adria, and Croatia Airlines award seats are now bookable on continental.com, meaning that 26/27 Star Alliance carriers can now be booked quickly and easily online. Only Ethiopian Airlines, which joined Star Alliance last December, is yet to be added.

 

 

Up until now, the use of the Air Canada/Aeroplan or ANA award search ...

Security analyst Bruce Schneider, a fierce critic of the TSA, brings us another example of the agency's (in)competence:

TSA screener finds two pipes in passenger's bags.Screener determines that they're not a threat.Screener confiscates them anyway, because of their "material and appearance."Because they're not actually a threat, screener leaves them at the checkpoint.Everyone forgets about them.Six hours later, the next shift of TSA screeners notices the pipes and -- not ...

I still wonder sometimes why I put myself through such torture, but it always seems to work out in the end...

Instead of flying non-stop from Los Angeles to Philadelphia to get back in time for my 2pm class yesterday, I took my usual Sunday evening return on United from Burbank to Philadelphia via San Francisco and Washington Dulles. Having cleared every domestic redeye upgrade for as long as I can remember, I didn't give the SFO-IAD flight a second thought, even with more than a ...

Is it appropriate for an airline to hand out a prayer card with your meal? After doing so for decades, Alaska Airlines announced this week that it would be ending the practice effective 01 February 2012. Reactions have been mixed—some lament Alaska’s “surrender to secularism” while others express delight that Alaska had ended what they deem an assault on their values. Most don’t care—but I do, and am sad to see the prayer cards go.

I laugh a bit, ...