This has been an insane travel week (even for me). In the past seven days I've flown from Toronto to Brussels to Doha to Dubai, then to Oslo and back on the same day before driving to Abu Dhabi to fly to New York for two nights before heading to Las Vegas.
Over half these flights were planned at the very last minute, which has made for some interesting stories that I look forward to sharing with you guys. I might need a few days to catch up and remember what day it is first though. ;-)
The feedback from last week was generally positive, so hopefully this weekly review works well going forward!
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That’s a Daily Mail piece that Alan H. forwards to me. There are three letter airport codes that match the first three letters of their city name, like SYD for Sydney and MEL for Melbourne, Australia. They don’t get to use the first three letters for Detroit Metropolitan Airport, since DET is actually the old […]
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Reader Andy G. passes along this article that talks about how you can ‘buy airline tickets international’ — getting the best deal on airfare based on the country in which tickets are purchased. I think it overstates the case a bit (“once I was in Bangkok, that same flight that was once $300 would fall […]
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Barbara DeLollis flags a story about a “point scheme” that “came at taxpayers’ expense.” A county employee in Santa Clara, California supposedly defrauded the local government by… [Using] his personal credit card to pay for his travel expenses as well as the expenses of employees, all of whom are supposed to use a county credit […]
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