The Broward-Palm Beach News ran a story recently declaring a rival paper, the Sun Sentinel, to have ‘stepped over the line’ when they advocated for an airport expansion in Fort Lauderdale. The story said that the paper’s GM showed up at a meeting declaring that the Sun Sentinel’s editorial should be read by every local […]
Yahoo Travel: Revamped but Still No Airport Parking “What Netflix has done for movies and what Amazon has done for book recommendations we’re doing for travel recommendations,” said Jasper Malcolmson, director of Yahoo Travel. According to ZD Net, the site has just done a complete makeover.Yahoo Travel combines Yahoo FareChase, which finds low-priced air fares, […]
The Daily Pilot in Newport Beach CA this week ran an editorial against a plan to demolish the back nine holes of a municipal golf course to make way for a parking lot. Like Joni Mitchell sang in the sixties, “paving paradise and putting up a parking lot,” is not the most popular thing to […]
On the Bay9 News website today, a report about how the Tampa International Airport is raising its parking rates on June 15. The airport says increased demand makes the fee hike necessary. More operating fees and costs, apparently. But at least they are making it easier to pay. By next January you will be allowed […]
One topic that many of the bloggers I know who travel are bugged about is the lousy reception many foreigners get when they come to the US. Coupled with the fact that the budget has been decimated for any promotion of the US overseas, it is just plain no fun for many citizens of other […]
Congratulations are in order for a milestone. Airport Parking Reservations is coming up on its millionth online airport parking reservation. This announcement went out to the press yesterday. “If you were to park one million cars end to end, how much room would you need? According to Tom Lombardi,the line would stretch from New York […]
The Airport Experience…in New Delhi. Desicritics.org recently posted a blog about conditions in India’s biggest city. “The parking in the domestic terminal is a mess. Given the number of flights, the number of vehicles using the parking has increased tremendously while space has remained same; and this is where things get frustrating. Everybody in the […]
Alina Tugend writes in today’s NY Times about a subject that divides many couples when it comes to travel. The topic is how early one needs to get to the airport.“One partner, it seems, always wants to get there two days before the flight leaves (my husband), and one thinks 20 minutes before takeoff is […]
