But seriously. That page? EXTREMELY useful. Have your husband inform the relevant people that a very powerless man will be very displeased if that page goes away.

(Me and my girlfriend, we fly home a lot--that means Germany and Poland--and I have a good friend in Istanbul whom I try to visit about once a year. This page is going to get so much mileage.)

Coincidentally, and I'd fully understand if (and as a matter of fact I expect that) you will say "I could tell you but then I'd have to kill you", how does that page make a profit? I saw a couple of sponsored links, but that can't be all, can it?

Martin liked your comment. He said that he doesn't want to lose such an admirer, so I can't tell you how they make money.

It may or may not involve leprechauns.

xeger @3:

That looks neat for North America, but not much use for Europe. This is probably why we didn't know about it.

Serge @4:

See my reply to Daniel at 2; the situations are similar.

It's a site filled with people who do lots of flying and like sharing their experiences = it's a healthy online community and their knowledge goes deep.

The forums include airline-specific ones, general travel issues (Safety and Security, Travel with Disabilities, etc), and regional-to-city level information.

I haven't seen a better place to get help on questions like
"How do I get through security if I cannot take off my shoes?" or
"If I have a 5 hour layover, what can I see in city XYZ. And what's the best way to get their and back?" or
"How easy is it to drive in Romania?" or
"I have a travel credit originally purchased with miles on United: can I return it?"

While they (like anyone) hope that you search the forums before posting, I've noticed they tend to be relaxed with naive/newbie questions.

Looks like it's been acquired by Microsoft since I used it last and is now at http://farecast.live.com/. That could be good or bad news, depending. (Since the link saying "Farecast acquired by Microsoft - Learn more" at the bottom of every site page is broken, I'm going to guess it's a bad thing.)

US only, actually, although they do extend beyond in a less reliable way. Still - generally useful within its limits.

What we really need is information on what others are offered; for example, a Firefox extension that captures at least what price you eventually pay, or at best all the prices you are quoted for a given route/time/date and the time/date you were quoted them, and a backend that aggregates this info from all the users, so you can view the yield curves.

Could display the curve by airlines and also with options to step forward and back by dates..

It's help me find good vacation acommodations for both business and vacation travel, and last year, I traveled WAY TOO MUCH. Enough to get over 25k qualifying miles on United and over 75k on Continental, plus some odds and ends on carriers like Soutwest, Virgin America and Jet Airways where I couldn't do anything with the miles.

FWIW, I post reviews there as RoamingSeattleite.

BTW - Seatguru is one of the most useful sites out there. While the good seats are VERY hard to get, it makes it EASY to avoid the bad seats.

It's help me find good vacation acommodations for both business and vacation travel, and last year, I traveled WAY TOO MUCH. Enough to get over 25k qualifying miles on United and over 75k on Continental, plus some odds and ends on carriers like Soutwest, Virgin America and Jet Airways where I couldn't do anything with the miles.

FWIW, I post reviews there as RoamingSeattleite.

BTW - Seatguru is one of the most useful sites out there. While the good seats are VERY hard to get, it makes it EASY to avoid the bad seats.

I'll second the recommendations for FlyerTalk and Seatguru.

Also, in Europe at least, it's well worth signing up to the mailing lists of all the budget airlines that use your local airport, because they often have very good but short-lived sales.

SkyScanner uses live feeds; it doesn't "do" outdated (not to that extent, anyway; a matter of minutes or hours at most).

When I went and looked at the flights from MSP to HPN, all I saw were indirect flights. Are you sure you saw a direct one?

As someone who walks with a cane, I've always wondered if they make you take off your shoes while standing up or do you have to sit on the (presumably extremely filthy, travel-stained) floor? If I ever have to fly again, at the very least, I'm going to invest in airport friendly suspenders.

Probably the worst plane seat I've ever had was at the back of a 737; it was painfully noisy, and the flight attendants claimed to not have disposable ear plugs to hand out.

http://www.onebag.com/

The hot water pipes come out of the wall. Those pipes are what the towels are draped on. One comes out of the shower and the towels are warm.

We were right on the beach and it had a magnificent mahogany bar. Yes, the tub was the size of a breadbox and there was only one outlet, but it was lovely, and we got good service.

When we caught our shuttle back to the airport, there was a breakdown and we were parked in a Holiday Inn lobby. You couldn't tell you were in Brazil.

For people who don't want to feel like they've left home, I suppose that's a feature.

Stupid typo! Clearly that should have read "back in the dey."

As I work in the tourist industry, it often amazes me how people will come to a different place, and yet want nothing to be different.

I live 1/2 mile north of the White House, and my impulse is to bar the doors and stay inside Monday and Tuesday, and hope the city is there on Wednesday.

It occurs to me I could get out of grinch mode and set up a water station at 16th and Q, if I could get someone to carry the jug back and forth for refills, since I'm not supposed to lift over 10 pounds for the next couple of weeks. At least I would feel useful.

It's way too late to be an official volunteer. Maybe I should leave it to people who thought ahead.

Somehow the timing of your information suggests that it is related to flights to Washington, DC>

It wasn't! Honest! I'm so far removed from the while shebang that I wasn't thinking about it at all.

I've been at Martin to give me that set of links for over a month; the post is just a product of our own household rhythms. This was when we had time.

Having said that, do what you can and don't worry about the rest.

Thanks for the flying info and wise words.

(a) You call that venting? Hmph. That wasn't even a mild outgassing. I lived in Edinburgh fifteen years, where the Festival crams the streets solid for the entire month of August every year. Now that gives rise to venting.

(b) You're kinda entitled at this point (yay on not being dead, BTW, and the good prognosis)

(c) Innocent? Me?