The Mona Lisa Scrum
I was back in Paris recently for and it got me to reminiscing. I lived here for several years, not so long ago and was a frequent visitor to the many excellent Parisian museums. Back then, as now, the Louvre did not charge entry on the first Sunday of each month. This meant I could … Read more
Emirates Airlines, You Rock…..British Airways YOU SUCK.
Take your points and SHOVE them British Airways I am done. A loyalty scheme is supposed to engender loyalty. You spend all your money with one airline and you get treated better than if you spread it around. But the deal with BA is broken. The special treatment is only face value, they use loyalty … Read more
The Idiots Guide to Budget Airline Travel
Today's Airport experience is a goddam sonofabitch for everyone, no matter what class you travel. Its compounded though by most travellers making the same errors all the time and holding the whole security/ check in process up. Its even further compounded by the budget airline industry being a total gang of bastards about the whole … Read more
Rant: Taxi Drivers In Singapore, Nice, but Dim
The following is an actual transcript of a recent conversation I had with a Singapore Taxi driver. I had called two cabs already to come and pick me up from my apartment which is a Huge GOLD building right in the center of the Business district, opposite the Singapore Stock Exchange, neither of them could … Read more
British Airways: A List of Dreadful Things British Airways Has Done to Me
British Airways: I am tied to you, tied by binds that would put Prometheus’ jailer to shame. I have spent many hours on your beaten up planes, seated beside the toilet or the galley in the aisle traversing the globe. As a result I have gold status, and for what its worth would like to … Read more
