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Pimping for my adopted city: San Francisco, California.

Peter Crosby
06/18/2014

I don’t normally shill for things (I let Google Adwords cover that), but I feel somewhat obligated in this particular case. Not only is this video promotion a come-on for visiting my adopted city, but also because a good friend of mine wrote the script.

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Man forced to spend night in empty Las Vegas airport makes epic music video.

Peter Crosby
06/12/2014

Man who got bumped from two Delta flights and found himself all alone in a totally empty Vegas airport overnight.

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Airlines completely screw up my brilliantly simple plan to save them.

Peter Crosby
05/13/2014

Back in 2012, I gave commercial airlines the secret of bringing back the Golden Age of Flight. I thought the instructions were pretty clear and simple. So simple that even the airlines couldn’t mess them up, but I was wrong.

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FAA admits using iPhones in ‘airplane’ mode won’t crash planes after all.

Peter Crosby
11/01/2013

For years, the airlines have been perpetuating myths.

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To increase profits, major airlines take a page from chicken factory farms.

Peter Crosby
10/28/2013

As I’ve said before, the airline industry isn’t all that profitable. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to learn that some of the major airlines are trying to “optimize” their operations to eek out as much profit as possible. And who better to model yourself after than the ethical folks at Big Chicken, right?

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The biggest threat my pocket-knife poses to airline personnel is from infection.

Peter Crosby
10/17/2013

In the wrong hands, anything can be a dangerous weapon. But who’d choose a pocket-knife?

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Think how pricey flying would be if airlines actually turned a profit.

Peter Crosby
07/12/2013

When the latest IATA study came out recently, the results weren’t too surprising.

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United and Delta encourage business travelers to gouge their employers.

Peter Crosby
06/24/2013

United Airlines and Delta have decided to end the shell game that was their frequent flyer miles program in favor of straight-up rewarding people based on their cold, hard cash expenditures. Basically, customers can only get preferential treatment now by outright paying for it.

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Where to look to find Google Flight's best feature

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Why overpay to fly places you’ve already been before?

Peter Crosby
05/11/2013

Do your parents or friends live too far away to visit by car? Does flying there on a semi-regular basis force you to pay exorbitant airline prices? Well, don’t disown them just yet (there’s plenty of time for that later). Because I just found a technology service that will save you tons of cash on the flights you take the most often.

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Which airline’s fees are the worst (and which ones are even worse).

Peter Crosby
05/09/2013

Remember when airline ticket prices didn’t have added fees for baggage, food, drinks, pillows, blankets or anything else that made air travel not entirely suck? Remember when those niceties were just built into the price of your ticket? Yeah? Well then, you’re old.

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