• SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

    Apollo Crashes, United Left Holding Bag

    Chicago Tribune | Computer failure disrupts United flights worldwide Hee hee! I’m on SABRE. However, this impacted us anyway, because no record locators were coming back on our bookings, and we couldn’t issue tickets on UA. So they had to issue a blanket fare waiver today, and we had to issue tickets and store the fare manually. Which was a bummer, but hee hee! SABRE makes that kind of thing easy.

  • SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

    Airline Passengers Sue for False Imprisonment

    Angry passengers sue after plane delay – Yahoo! News BERLIN (Reuters) – Six German airline passengers who said they were being held against their will on an aircraft stuck on the runway for hours during a snowstorm have filed “false imprisonment” charges, German police said Saturday. The passengers filed charges against the pilot of a British Airways Berlin-London flight that sat on the runway for seven hours before it could take off, a federal police spokesman said. The general consensus around here is if an airline can at least push back, they get paid. Otherwise, if the flight continues to…

  • Radio

    Al Franken’s Back!

    Al Franken has returned from his USO tour over the massive Chrismakkuh megaholiday, and resumed live shows on AAR this morning. He and the crew have relocated to Minneapolis (which, if it’s true he’s running for the Senate, makes sense). Listen on the Web at blogs | The Al Franken Show | Air America Radio