The “Break it Down” Blog

American Airlines Adding WiFi to All Domestic Flights

For all the business travelers out there, your life just got a little less sucky — assuming you use American Airlines for your domestic flights. American Airlines has been trialing the in-flight WiFi service for 6-months on a few select flights and has decided to OK the rollout to it’s entire fleet. The price for the [...]

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Visualization of the World’s Air Traffic – Unbelievable

This comes in courtesy of Robert Heron. It’s a fascinating animation of the world’s air-traffic. I cannot believe how much air traffic takes place over the US and during any given day, I don’t think I really ever see an airplane in the sky or hear one.

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New Zealand: Day 1 – The Sky Jump and Facing Fears

Another blog entry from our trip to New Zealand… perfect fare for a tech blog right? Here I will make it techie: Internet access is expensive here and not as many places as you would find it in the US. Ok enough about that, we landed at 6am in Auckland after our surprising comfortable 13hr flight [...]

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Kelty Redwing 2650 Traveling Backpack Review

My wife and I are preparing to leave on a 2-week excursion to New Zealand (the North Island) as well as Bora Bora and after hitting up London with friends blow-out-style in a 36hrs crazy trip, we got addicted to travelling light. The amount of stress that melts off your back when you only have 1 [...]

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Microsoft Farecast Predicts Ticket Prices for Best Price

Todd Swarthout sent in a link to a pretty cool new site from Microsoft: Farecast. The idea behind Farecast is very similar to Kayak or Mobissimo where you specify your departure and arrival city and then use all these nice AJAX-ey controls to fine-tune your search results on the fly. The difference with Farecast is that it [...]

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Airbus A380 Gets Bunk Beds

Thank god this is finally getting done. Looks like the Airbus A380 is going to get triple-decker bunk beds for folks that want to sleep while they fly. Hopefully this is a trend to replace all seating with bunk beds, which will only make travelling easier and easier for folks, helping to compensate for the [...]

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Change your Southwest Airlines boarding pass from B/C to A

Great tip. Not sure if this is legal, probably not but I also doubt there is anything in the agreement before hand that states this is illegal. The gist of the idea is to get to the end of the process where you print your boarding pass online, and to replace the “B” or “C” [...]

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