FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida- All over the insides of Spirit Air planes are posters saying, “Get three free flights.”
Apparently, you can get these free flights by signing up for their credit card.
I thought nothing of this: credit cards are scams, I don’t want to be scammed so I don’t participate. I have only once participated before — at age 18 — and I scammed myself: credit is not worth the agony.
I flew on Spirit Air from Santiago in the Dominican Republic to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. I had a layover there. In the terminal were booths of pushy old Jewish women trying to get passengers to sign up for their credit card.
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SOSUA, Dominican Republic- $570 was the total cost I had to shell out for me and my small family to purchase air tickets on Spirit Air from Santiago, Dominican Republic to Guatemala City. $285 each will get us one click away from El Salvador, our next base of operations.
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SOSUA, Dominican Republic- Never hesitate when looking for a plane ticket. The moment you find a good price, buy it. Don’t wait on the chance that the price will come down, don’t monkey around with indecision about departure dates:
Just buy it.
Once an air ticket is purchased, that is the path you are going to travel: [...]
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It is perfectly within the bounds of airline regulations to carry a knife in your checked baggage – NOT your carry on bags — as long as it is not going to cut through your bag and be a hazard to airport employees and other passenger’s luggage.
But, for some reason, the airline baggage handlers who [...]
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The change in air pressure in an aircraft during take off and landing can alter the balance of a person’s ears and require them to “reset” the balance through opening their jaw or yawning. This is second nature to an adult, but babies do not yet know how to do this.
Instead they feel a lot [...]
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Flying to Dominican Republic with a Baby –
Not bad. Not horridly, desperately, nor incredibly bad. Flying from Portland, Maine to the Dominican Republic with a 6 month old went as smoothly as I could expect. This kid knows how to travel, though I can’t say her parents give her much of a choice.
Baby Petra did [...]
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Going through airport security can be hectic – it is easy to misplace things, yourself, and go vertigo until you make it out the other side of the tunnel:
You have people in front of you, people behind, you are taking off your shoes, being searched, TSA officials asking questions – “is this bag yours?” – [...]
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Connect airline hubs and travel regions travel tip –
After laying out the new parameters of traveling with a family, looking at our present location (northeast USA) in relation to the rest of the world in terms of flight costs, and harnessing that gut feeling that tells you that “now” is the right time to go [...]
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Langa Air in St.Louis closed its doors unexpectedly leaving its students and instructors grounded. This is an update about one of their former students who is still on the path towards becoming an airline pilot. Read the first part of this story at A Warning to Prospective Airline Pilots
“There use to be a lot more [...]
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Flight School Closes in St.Louis, Students Left on the Ground –
Erik the Pilot had one goal since I first met him in the second grade: to be a commercial airline pilot.
I met the guy who would later become my best friend as he read a book about Amelia Earnhardt in some elementary English class. I [...]
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Jet Blue Airline Makes Me Angry
It is amazing how quickly a table can turn, it is shocking how thoroughly an opinion can change in such a short amount of time. Tomorrow always has the possibility of rising a much different day than today.
I wrote this entry, Jet Blue Good Airline, a couple of days ago [...]
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Jet Blue: Good Airline
Jet Blue, a budget airline with flights around the USA and Caribbean, is by far my favorite company to fly with. They treat me like a human, their flights get me where I want to go, and, as I have just found out, they take the initiative to compensate passengers for their [...]
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Shelter from the Storm
The world is good. The people in it are good, too. I know this.
A middle aged European woman sat next to me on the Jet Blue flight from Cancun Mexico to JFK, New York. She asked me if I would mind if she rested her feet up on the seat next to [...]
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Next Move from Central America- Connecting Air Travel HubsI am pondering on some ideas about where I will make my next jump from Central America. I am thinking about staying in this region for a couple more months to visit El Salvador, Belize, travel in Guatemala, and then exit from Mexico.
But exit to where? This [...]
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Ryan Air, or The Penny Flight that Wasn’t
“I found a penny flight from Porto to Marseilles” Mira exclaimed.
Our bike journey needs to be fast forwarded a little bit. I want to visit my dear friends in the south of France and Ubertramp and the Pogues in England. Mira wants to get back to Latin America [...]
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The Toilet: Always Room for Inter-Cultural MisinterpretationRabat, MoroccoSeptember 11, 2007http://canciondelvagabundo.googlepages.com/
The toilet. Everywhere in the world there are toilets of some kind. But the designs of which often differ slightly, and in these slight variations I have found that there is a lot of room for cultural misinterpretation.
As part of the acculturation process of nearly everyone [...]
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I Think I Shook EnglandHeathrow Airport, London, EnglandSeptember 6, 2007http://canciondelvagabundo.googlepages.com
London, London, London. A little glad that I am just passing through. I was sitting on a bench in the terminal and a couple of old and proper English women were sitting next to me, talking gossip and news about labor strikes in Spain. They had [...]
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Travel Plans: First Month in MoroccoAlbion, New York, USASeptember 4, 2007http://canciondelvagabundo.googlepages.com/
Tomorrow night I leave Rochester, NY for New York City by Jet Blue. I will probably then stay the night in the airport, and then make it into the city by morning. From here I need to meet with my academic advisor in Brooklyn, [...]
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