I saw a new website/company feature on Fast Company (my start up page in my browser) WANDERFLY. This website uses a lot of small thumbnails at the top bar and suggests one by one many places, using pretty pictyres, with free pictures from Flickr by crediting the photographer.
Showing posts with label air travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air travel. Show all posts
Feb 3, 2011
Dedicated Travel Site Launched
A dedicated website for getting the best travel deals for Penn State students and community has been launched.
The site links you out to some of the best student airfare portals and other PSU centric discounts and deals.
The site links you out to some of the best student airfare portals and other PSU centric discounts and deals.
Dec 29, 2009
Canada Restricts Carry On Luggage
Canada has been quick to restrict carry on luggage
on flights to US, with some exemptions for medicines, musical instruments, laptops
and other such items. You know what this means...
(Disclaimer: Almost all products featured in this post are linked to Amazon.com. None have been tried by me or recommended by me. They are merely the first suggestions that come to my mind.)
If your checked luggages is lost or delayed, you cannot be buying new underwear everytime. What you need to do is:
a) Dress like Superman
; wear a set of clean underwear
on top of your clothes.
b) Wear quick drying underwear, like this one for men
or this for women
.
Also, you need to make sure that laptop bag itself can contains a small netbook
, thereby giving you more room for other essentials.
Well that is all the promotion I can do for now folks. If you buy any of this stuff, remember you are also supporting some good causes in that process.
on flights to US, with some exemptions for medicines, musical instruments, laptops and other such items. You know what this means... (Disclaimer: Almost all products featured in this post are linked to Amazon.com. None have been tried by me or recommended by me. They are merely the first suggestions that come to my mind.)
If your checked luggages is lost or delayed, you cannot be buying new underwear everytime. What you need to do is:
a) Dress like Superman
; wear a set of clean underwear on top of your clothes.b) Wear quick drying underwear, like this one for men
or this for women.Also, you need to make sure that laptop bag itself can contains a small netbook
, thereby giving you more room for other essentials.Make sure you carry an empty water bottle
that you can fill with water on the plane (links
), so that you don't need to wait for the inflight service to quench your thirst. Or you could carry thirst quenching gum
(larger sizes featured alongside
).
that you can fill with water on the plane (links), so that you don't need to wait for the inflight service to quench your thirst. Or you could carry thirst quenching gum (larger sizes featured alongside).
and 
to ward off hunger.
to keep you sane if there is chaos around you and general unrest.Make sure you have some plush gloves with you no matter what weather, because these gloves
could be used as neck pillows. (Already they are not letting blankets and pillows, so you can use these gloves
as pillows).
could be used as neck pillows. (Already they are not letting blankets and pillows, so you can use these gloves as pillows).Well that is all the promotion I can do for now folks. If you buy any of this stuff, remember you are also supporting some good causes in that process.
Nov 29, 2009
Avoid Shopping Traps
Yahoo finance featured a well written article on the different traps to avoid during holiday shopping this season. Follow them and you can avoid unnecessary fees and other traps.
If you are shopping at Amazon use this link to support this site.
If you shop at Travelocity use this link to support this site.
If you want to practise free stock trading, join UPDOWN.COM
If you are shopping at Amazon use this link to support this site.
If you shop at Travelocity use this link to support this site.
If you want to practise free stock trading, join UPDOWN.COM
Oct 22, 2008
Secure Flight Rule and the Watch List
Just saw news* that the US Govt Dept of Homeland Security has revealed the size of the "Terrorist Watch List". The list is supposed to be about 2500 names long (the no fly list) and less than 10% on the list are US citizens according to the DHS/TSA**. Read DHS Official Press Release here.
"Airlines will be required under Secure Flight to collect a passenger's full name, date of birth, and gender when making an airline reservation."
Information on "Secure Flight" a program to pre-register so that you are considered a "safe passenger" is also briefly covered in this post.
So the list is finally quantified, ending a lot of speculation and folk tales of the list size being in 100's of thousands to almost a few millions. The main no fly list consists about 250 US Citizens according to the DHS.
While there is a ton of legalese and other information in the Final Secure Flight Document (195 pages), including TSA responses to several comments from different air operators and other authorities etc., the one thing that caught my eye was this:
Anyways to wrap this up, I will just mention that I read the first few pages, then I read several pages of comments. Then i got tired, and decided to run keyword searches on how TSA was using the age information that it requires to be provided by airlines 72 hrs ahead of time or as soon as available in case of last minute reservations.
I searched for food, kids, children or child and did not get a single hit in the 195 pg document. I did this because we often see in the news that a young child has a name match with somebody on the TSA watch list and ends up getting delayed and undergoing enhanced screening.
DHS Official Press Release.
* News on CNN.
DOB, Full Name Required Headline
Secure Flight Ruling (10.7 MB, PDF)
**Dept of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Admininstration
"Airlines will be required under Secure Flight to collect a passenger's full name, date of birth, and gender when making an airline reservation."
Information on "Secure Flight" a program to pre-register so that you are considered a "safe passenger" is also briefly covered in this post.
So the list is finally quantified, ending a lot of speculation and folk tales of the list size being in 100's of thousands to almost a few millions. The main no fly list consists about 250 US Citizens according to the DHS.
While there is a ton of legalese and other information in the Final Secure Flight Document (195 pages), including TSA responses to several comments from different air operators and other authorities etc., the one thing that caught my eye was this:
"The Secure Flight Service Center will be staffed 24-hours a day,So there you go, somebody will be working 24/7!
7-days a week to receive telephone calls from covered aircraft operators' staff and assist in the clearance of inhibited passengers"
Anyways to wrap this up, I will just mention that I read the first few pages, then I read several pages of comments. Then i got tired, and decided to run keyword searches on how TSA was using the age information that it requires to be provided by airlines 72 hrs ahead of time or as soon as available in case of last minute reservations.
I searched for food, kids, children or child and did not get a single hit in the 195 pg document. I did this because we often see in the news that a young child has a name match with somebody on the TSA watch list and ends up getting delayed and undergoing enhanced screening.
DHS Official Press Release.
* News on CNN.
DOB, Full Name Required Headline
Secure Flight Ruling (10.7 MB, PDF)
**Dept of Homeland Security and Transportation Security Admininstration
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