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5 (sometimes surprising) ways flying affects your body
Gus Ruballo You land. Your throat feels like sandpaper. Your head is heavy. Your eyes sting. You've been sitting still for eight hours… so why does your body feel like it just ran a marathon? Most travelers accept this as the price of flying. But there's nothing inevitable about it. These symptoms have specific, well-documented causes — and understanding them is the first step to actually doing something about them. Here are five things flying is doing to your body right now. Some I´ll bet…
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Flying from Boston to San Francisco, Kaleel Sakakeeny found that he was responsible for .98 tons of CO2 -- that's a ton of gas, boys and girls. But are carbon offsets really the answer? http://www.tripatini.com/profiles/blogs/carbon-offsets-more-hype-than
We've added an update to yesterday's post about comparing the cost of driving to flying when traveling to your destination at The World on Wheels. It's a real-world example calculating the cost of traveling to Seattle from Southern California which would be right on the edge of the drive/fly debate for us. Come on over and join the debate - as always your opinions are welcome and always appreciated: http://tinyurl.com/79mqfk9
Planning a trip...the first thing to think of is how to get there. Usually, it's a case of drive or fly? Today's Travel Tip on The World on Wheels, we visit the pros and cons of each method to see if we'd be better off driving or flying: http://tinyurl.com/79mqfk9
Anil I just googled their load average and couldn't find anything for the fall. However I have found this: Allegiant Air (91.3%) and Spirit Airlines (90.0%) reported the best loads and the strongest load factor growth in July of 5.0 ppts and 4.4 ppts, respectively.
This appears to indicate that an airline can lie to people and still have a good load factor.
This is an election year in the US. Everyone gets inspired to do little bit of hyperbolic lying :) The true story is in the load averages that Spirit has been seeing since Fall '11.
Spirit Airlines does not fly to Spain where I live now for two years. However I read your article about the airline and even went to the website where I saw the window with the big "warning." Are there not laws in the USA to criminalize this lying?
Here is my take on the Spirit foolishness.
http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/spirit-twists-the-truth-when-...
ConsumerTraveler.com has lots on the new airline rules. Been working hard on these issues in Washington. It is nice to finally see something happening.
Spirit Airlines warns, “Spirit must now HIDE the government's taxes and fees in your fares” because of the new rules on showing total cost of tix. Just one problem with that, says Business Travel Coalition chair Kevin Mitchell: It's not true. In an article at eTurboNews, Mitchell says, “With this ill-considered attack on DOT, Spirit Airlines has reached a new low and no doubt secured the Poster-Child crown for 2012 for misleading consumers." How does Spirit get away with outright lying?
Some thoughts on the current state of the travel industry:
http://inspiringtravellers.com/2012/01/19/travel-services-industry-...
No one gets to where they're going and says, "gee, I wish I'd packed more stuff." This week's Travel Tip on The World on Wheels, how to pack and how to pack as little as possible and still have what you need: http://tinyurl.com/8x6dgho
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