Traveling

Skip The Drink Ticket, Southwest Airlines: Give Me A Wifi Pass & Other Wifi Improvements

July 24, 2013 by Danny Sullivan

Hey Southwest Airlines, can we talk about your wifi? Back when I was A-List Premier, I got it for free, so I had little reason to complain. I just missed making that status this year, so I’m paying $8 a go and, well, now I’m more demanding. Some thoughts: Remember My Info I don’t want […]

Clear Airport Security Is Back, With All The Downsides

September 20, 2010 by Danny Sullivan

The Clear airport security system that closed last year is back up and running at a new web site and under new ownership. Plus, it promises to honor the membership terms remaining for any previous members at the time the old program closed. That’s the good news. Bad? Clear still stupidly requires biometric registration for […]

How Does Southwest Airlines Issue Boarding Numbers? Sorry, That’s Confidential

December 8, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

Yesterday, despite being a Southwest A-List member, I received my first “B” boarding number. Curious about why this happened — A-Listers are supposed to get the best “A” numbers — I asked Southwest. Sorry, that’s “proprietary” and “confidential” information, I was told. Wow. Who’d have thought the order that Southwest hands out boarding passes was […]

Southwest Airlines Flying Tips

August 21, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

I’ve been flying Southwest Airlines for about a year now. It’s been quite a change for me. I spent years flying mostly long-haul international flights from when I lived in Britain to the United States. Now most of my flying is short hops between Orange County’s John Wayne Airport and San Jose. Southwest runs a […]

Clear Airport Security Program Closes Abruptly; Goodbye Flo, Too?

June 22, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

The Clear airport security program has abruptly closed. No warning, and no information beyond a sparse statement on the Clear web site. An email to members also went out about an hour ago with the same short statement on the site. NOTE (Sept. 20, 2010 : See Clear Airport Security Is Back, With All The […]

Zeppelin Eureka Heads To Los Angeles & Orange County

May 20, 2009 by Danny Sullivan

I’m back from watching the Zeppelin Eureka take off from Moffett Field near San Jose on its trip down to Southern California, where it will offer tours there for the first time. Below, photos and video of the zeppelin, some hopefully interesting trivia plus how you can track it on its journey down the coast […]

Remembering My Big Trip Of 1996

September 5, 2006 by Danny Sullivan

Just over ten years ago, my wife Lorna and I sold most of what we owned, shipped it back to her native Britain and spent the next four months traveling from California to Alaska to Western Canada and then down through the Western United States to where we started. We then said goodbye to our long suffering sub-compact Ford […]

Having An Iris Scan To Clear Immigration At Heathrow

August 14, 2006 by Danny Sullivan

When I came back to England from Miami in July, I was given a flyer for the new IRIS program that the UK Home Office is using for passport control. It promised that I could enroll by having my eyes scanned in a few minutes, which would then allow me to use a special booth […]

Tour Stonehenge The Right Way — Private Access

May 23, 2006 by Danny Sullivan

The first time I saw Stonehenge, I figured it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Now I live five miles from it and see it on a regular basis, out the window of my car whenever I drive into town. I’ve also taken plenty of visitors to see the stones, plus watched others arrive for viewings. I’ll […]