Miserable Travel Week, Except While In Air

What a miserable travel week; I'll have more details later, but for now I'd like to highlight a positive travel development.  United's new content streaming system is working and on a few of their Airbus aircraft already.  It's free to use and has good content selections, just be sure to board with a full battery because there is still no power on board.

Remember The Last Point

Bud Light Up For Whatever Air Charters

Bud Light ran a few CRJ-200's and an Atlas Air 767 from Denver to Crested Butte (Gunnison) as part of their Up For Whatever promotion where they took over a town for a giant party.  I spotted the jets parked at the A terminal in Denver.  The CRJ's had the full Whatever Bud Light Branding and the Atlas Air 767 just looked out of place (I've only seen their cargo planes).

Bud Light Whatever CRJ 200

Atlas Air 767 Charter

Smokey Cold Engine Start

On cold days, jet engines have smokey start ups when first turned over in the morning.  It looks troubling until a pilot explains the behavior as normal and nothing to worry about. It makes an interesting show though. 

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Scotish Independence

If Scotland votes for independence, will British Airways need to repaint their fleet?

No Blue Without Scotland

New Look For Frontier Airlines

Last week Frontier and Southwest decided to re-brand, though I'm not sure why.  Anyway, I spotter the new Frontier design when going through Denver this week. It looks good, but the old design looked good too.  

New and Old Frontier Designs

New Frontier Design

Fan Error

My laptop wouldn't start because of a fan error.  It's fixed now and posting will resume shortly.

A much more reliable fan

Orbitz and American Are Friends Again

Orbitz and American Airlines are friends again and will play nice. This is a bummer, I was hoping this fight would last more than a day.

American Will Play Nice With Others

Orbitz Worldwide (NYSE:OWW) announced today that it had reached an agreement with American Airlines to continue to offer American Airlines and US Airways flights on all of its sites. Consumers should see all available flights immediately. All tickets previously purchased on Orbitz Worldwide sites remain valid.

"We are pleased that our long-standing relationship with American Airlines allowed us to quickly resolve business matters and that we continue to offer a broad range of options, including American Airlines and US Airways flights, to the millions of shoppers who book travel on our global sites each day," said Sam Fulton, president of Orbitz.com.