Just spent a few quick days in Nassau, Bahamas. We flew on US Air frequent flyer miles, which heretofore always seemed impossible to redeem. Then again, we had never tried Nassau before, which USAir serves from Charlotte, Washington DC, Philly, and, on Saturdays, New York. So there was plenty of capacity. As well, every major […]
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On Location in: Nassau, Bahamas
Published by March 15th, 2008 in Bahamas, Caribbean and Photos. 0 CommentsNew York Times Travel Show
Published by March 2nd, 2008 in Africa, Airlines, Asia, Australia, Canada, Caribbean, Cruises, Europe, General, Mediterranean, Mexico, Pacific Islands, Rail, South America and USA. 0 CommentsYesterday, I went to the New York Travel Show, where a few hundreds booths displayed the travel wonders from all corners of the globe. Arranged geographically in aisles, you can travel from India to Korea to Estonia to St. Maarten as you move across the room. As usual (its an annual event), it was a […]
Flying between the US Virgin Islands: Conventional Plane and Sea Plane
Published by February 21st, 2008 in Aircraft, Airlines, Cape Air, Caribbean, Seaborne Airlines and US Virgin Islands. 0 CommentsAs we are in the midst of winter, I thought some fine images of the turquoise green waters of the Caribbean oughta warm you up–or just torture you.
In any event, while doing some work in the US Virgin Islands on the island of St. Thomas, I had to take a quick hop over to St. […]
Soaked
Published by December 28th, 2007 in Airlines, Aviation Policy, Caribbean, Delta Airlines, Luggage, Mexico, Security and TSA. 2 CommentsLiquids. I know about the liquids rule, you know the liquids rule, we all know about the liquids rule…so why did it trip us up three times in the past week? Somehow, deep in our hearts, we don’t want to believe the liquids rule, we think our fluids will somehow seep through…but they won’t.
Last week […]
Preclearance to the United States
Published by December 26th, 2007 in Aruba, Aviation Policy, Bahamas, Bilateral agreements, Canada, Ireland and USA. 0 CommentsAnother of the many interesting aspects of international aviation policy is preclearance to the US—that is the clearing of immigration and customs of US-bound passengers (of any citizenry) in the foreign country of departure. Upon preclearing, a passenger enters the United States and is treated as a domestic passenger, thus removing the necessity of […]
On Location in: Jost Van Dyke
Published by November 30th, 2007 in British Virgin Islands, Caribbean, US Virgin Islands and United Kingdom. 2 CommentsThis past spring I was doing some work in the US Virgin Islands and had a Saturday free to do some exploring. So I jumped on a ferry and headed out to Jost Van Dyke, one of the British Virgin Islands (BVI).
Jost Van Dyke is a small (3.4 square miles, or 9 sq. km.), remote […]
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