YAPTA.com – For Award Travel on UA, Delta??

There has been a lot of buzz about a new service offered by Yapta.com. Yapta stands for “Your Amazing Personal Travel Assistant”. Most of the buzz seems to be regurgitation of their press releases. Besides their basic (airline site only) meta-search, they offer a airfare tracker. Not a predictor, like farecast. They claim that millions [...]

Expedia, Kayak or Delta – You need all of them – Part 1

I am often asked – whats the best way (meaning schedule and cost) to book flights online. The field is crowded with Meta-search (Kayak, farecast), Online Travel Agents (Expedia, Orbitz, Priceline, Travelocity) and the Airline sites. The answer is usually a combination of all three. Todays post is about debugging a high priced domestic ticket. [...]

FAA safety ranking lowered for Israel? – I doubt it!

Readers may be concerned about todays reports that the FAA plans to downgrade Ben Gurion Airport’s safety ranking to level two (the official term is air safety oversight category). According to the FAA – a category 2 rating means: A Category 2 rating means a country either lacks laws or regulations necessary to oversee air [...]

Want to throw away $10,000,000?

Here’s a deal from ElAl right in line with the current financial reality: Invest $10,000,000 in a low interest uninsured bank account and get more ElAl points then you can ever use. Don’t believe me? – here is the link. I am also interested in knowing how I got on the mailing list for this [...]

Chanuka in NY for $875/ per person

We just reserved 5 tickets to New York via Rome (on AlItalia) for $4400! Online – and I did it myself (took 2 hours). The key was an iterative process, hopping back and forth between the airlines websites and the Online Travel Agents (OTA’s) – like Expedia. The airline websites offer more flexibility in terms [...]

New Lounge in Ben Gurion – win a free pass

The Lounge Situation in Ben Gurion has never been much to write home about. The King David Lounge does not sell one day passes and is quite crowded anyway and the Dan Lounge is often standing room only (whats the point?). Anyway, many of our readers get to the airport as late as possible, with [...]