In the first quarter of 2014, 18 million international passengers transited through Dubai, compared with 16.1 million at Heathrow (second on the list). This makes Dubai the busiest airport for international travelers in the world, largely…
GoGo has sewn up most of the installed inflight WiFi in the U.S. and has aims on the rest of the world, but AT&T Wireless has now announced it will go into the market next year with a different technology. GoGo uses plane-based antennas to communicate with satellites for WiFi service; AT&T, which owns a dense ground-based cellphone network, plans to use ground-based antennas and to use 4G LTE rather than WiFi. DETAILS from Bloomberg News. TG note : AT&T…
Denver-based Frontier Airlines, whose goal is to become an “ultra low-cost” carrier, has dropped its fares by about 12% (which works out to about 18% below Southwest on competing routes). The fare cuts come with a big “but” but with no…
While it’s famous for its swallows (which sadly hardly return to the mission at all anymore, rather building their nests on newer buildings in the area), there’s a lot of things to see and enjoy at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Besides the ruins…
“Walking markets” have become an important feature of life in the three main islands in the Gulf of Thailand – Koh Tao, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. Usually held in the early evenings, they come alive is a bustle of colours, music, chatter and smells.
There have been more than a few tales and ships condemned to sail on forever, or never reach home—Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, the Flying Dutchman, Edward Everett Hale’s “Man Without a Country”—but this odd…
In the first quarter of 2014, 18 million international passengers transited through Dubai, compared with 16.1 million at Heathrow (second on the list). This makes Dubai the busiest airport for international travelers in the world, largely…
GoGo has sewn up most of the installed inflight WiFi in the U.S. and has aims on the rest of the world, but AT&T Wireless has now announced it will go into the market next year with a different technology. GoGo uses plane-based antennas to communicate with satellites for WiFi service; AT&T, which owns a dense ground-based cellphone network, plans to use ground-based antennas and to use 4G LTE rather than WiFi. DETAILS from Bloomberg News. TG note : AT&T…
Denver-based Frontier Airlines, whose goal is to become an “ultra low-cost” carrier, has dropped its fares by about 12% (which works out to about 18% below Southwest on competing routes). The fare cuts come with a big “but” but with no…
While it’s famous for its swallows (which sadly hardly return to the mission at all anymore, rather building their nests on newer buildings in the area), there’s a lot of things to see and enjoy at Mission San Juan Capistrano. Besides the ruins…
“Walking markets” have become an important feature of life in the three main islands in the Gulf of Thailand – Koh Tao, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan. Usually held in the early evenings, they come alive is a bustle of colours, music, chatter and smells.
There have been more than a few tales and ships condemned to sail on forever, or never reach home—Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, the Flying Dutchman, Edward Everett Hale’s “Man Without a Country”—but this odd…
