Airline Travel

Sometimes you may not be aware of all your options when figuring out airline travel destinations. Many cities are close enough to one another (especially in the east coast) that you may just find a way to your destination, even when the city you intended to go to has no seats on your travel day. A great site to see if you can use an “Alternative Airport” is (LINK) http://www.alternateairports.com/ (http://www NULL.alternateairports NULL.com/) .

At alternateairports.com you can check out a long and comprehensive list of Alternate airports next to the city name (airport name) of most major cities in the U.S. (Like the example shown for Los Angeles – LAX)

Using the listed example, did you know that you could fly into Long Beach on an airline like JetBlue instead of crowed LAX possibly save a lot of money on airline tickets or fly into Burbank airport on Southwest and be just up the road from major tourist sites like the NBC Studios (Jay Leno) or Universal Studios Tour.

I have been a road warrior for many many years now, and alternateairports.com has come in handy more times than you can believe.

For yours being on a plane meant that you were out of communications range for a few hours. That may be a good thing if you “want to get away” (as a Southwest Airlines puts it) but when you need to stay in touch with your office and do work, especially when your a computer tech being out of range is like being in a void. The hours on the plane just mean that you will have that many more emails (for me its about 90) to respond to once you land. It seems now, in an effort to give customers something “extra” and also make money (you don’t think this is going to be free do you), the airlines are now all rushing to make their planes wifi hotspots (above 10,000 feet of course). I’ve been hearing that the prices will range from $9.99 to $19.99 depending on the airline and the length of the flight. The Today Show, had a story this morning from somewhere over Maine. You can find the story at http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/30697366#30697366 (http://today NULL.msnbc NULL.msn NULL.com/id/26184891/vp/30697366#30697366) . Somehow I don’t think they will allow us to webcam when they rolls out but it would be sweet if they did (That’s just my opinion).

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