Big news from the Canadian travel industry. Starting on 30 April, 2023, WestJet will be crossing the Pacific (TPAC = transpacific) for the first time, connecting Calgary residents and YYC transit passengers on a nonstop flight with the Japanese capital Tokyo. Using its Boeing 787-9 aircraft, WestJet will be connecting Alberta’s largest city to Tokyo Narita Airport […]
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Las Cruces, New Mexico Restarting Commercial Air Service
If you’ve got hiking, regional food, and/or amusing place names on your bucket list, I’ve got some good news for you: Las Cruces, New Mexico is restarting commercial flights after nearly 20 years! Starting on Monday, 16 January, Las Cruces International Airport (LRU) will once again be hosting passenger service. In large part due to […]
The Wednesday Who of Airport Names: Sabiha Gökçen
In spite of experiencing delays, cancellations, airport takeovers, pandemics, and erupting volcanos, I still get excited about flying. Checking off new airports and revisiting old ones is an unrelenting hobby … but just whom is that airport named after? More and more airports are being named for people, whether they’re local or national heroes, religious […]
Allegiant Air Fare Search Mini Travel-Hack
Similar to my earlier discovery of a United Airlines fare search travel hack, after a bit of digging I also found that Allegiant (Air) wanted in on the fare hack URL slug action. Huh? URL slug? Take this very post, for instance: https://noworkalltravel.com/2023/01/09/allegiant-air-fare-search-mini-travel-hack/. All that stuff after the “.com” is the URL slug. I could […]
Delaware Will Once Again Have Commercial Airline Service
Delaware occupies an unusual place in the world of United States aviation. With around 71,000 residents, the largest city in the sales tax-free state, Wilmington, is virtually a suburb of Philadelphia; not to mention, Wilmington is a relatively short drive from New York City, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. In other words, there’s a significant population […]
Review: Garuda Business Lounge @ the International Terminal, Bali (DPS) Indonesia
In early 2022, I had come across an article about an airline status match with ITA Airways, the carrier borne out of the rubble of Italy’s Alitalia. Basically, if you had a certain frequent flier status with one airline, occasionally, a competitor — or outlier — offers the ability to get a similar frequent flier status […]
My First United Airlines Fare Search Hack
In what I hope is merely the first of a bunch of posts about how to improve your experience when booking flights, here’s my first United Airlines fare search hack that might help make your next airfare search more efficient. n.b. the search parameters were from last summer, but the travel hack still applies. O.K., […]
Trip Report: Playa Balandra, Calafia Airlines, La Paz, Mexico (LAP) to Tijuana, Mexico (TIJ) & CBX Border Crossing to San Diego
Playa Balandra (Balandra Beach), Baja California Sur, MexicoAfter a few days of vacation during which I had been eating like a whale, and becoming a human chicharrón under the La Paz sun, I had to return to the US. This time, I opted for Baja’s regional carrier Calafia Airlines, since they had a convenient flight […]
