The CrosbyReport blog is a sly SEO trick intended to “cast a wider net,” attracting more web traffic and increasing the number of subscribers to my email newsletter. My blog also provides an opportunity to write about topics that don’t really fit comfortably under the umbrella of a travel-oriented website—everything from technology to finance. Yeah, theme-wise, the CrosbyReport blog is kinda all over the board. Enjoy!
The legitimate money-making opportunity airlines should be all over, but aren’t.
As frequent visitors to this site know, I have a lot of beefs with the commercial airlines’ business practices. I don’t particularly like their treatment of passengers, and I find their tone-deaf efforts to make money…
Pimping for my adopted city: San Francisco, California.
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…
Man forced to spend night in empty Las Vegas airport makes epic music video.
Man who got bumped from two Delta flights and found himself all alone in a totally empty Vegas airport overnight.
The FBI uses cash to bust ignoramuses in U.S., could cripple economy.
If you live in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Jose, San Diego, or Oakland, be on the look-out for sociopathic jackholes toting small handheld laser-diodes capable of emitting a narrow coherent low-powered beam of visible light —…
Airlines completely screw up my brilliantly simple plan to save them.
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,…
FAA admits using iPhones in ‘airplane’ mode won’t crash planes after all.
For years, the airlines have been perpetuating myths.
Idiots with laser-pointers expected to blind pilots of over 4,000 flights this year.
Just when you think the Rednecks in the country can’t do any more damage.
To increase profits, major airlines take a page from chicken factory farms.
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…
The biggest threat my pocket-knife poses to airline personnel is from infection.
When news broke that the TSA had decided to stop stealing people’s pocket-knives, I was more than a little happy.
Anthony Bourdain: Snarky world traveler or just a well-coiffed homeless guy?
I’ll be honest: I didn’t know Anthony Bourdain was a chef.
Think how pricey flying would be if airlines actually turned a profit.
When the latest IATA study came out recently, the results weren’t too surprising.
United and Delta encourage business travelers to gouge their employers.
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…