Jaunted

Airline Report: News Round-Up

1/12/2007 at 12:00 PM
Tags: Airlines, JetBlue, Cruises, United, Air Canada (all tags)

· JetBlue has launched a cruise booking component on its website. Customers can now book plane tickets and cruises on all the major lines together in a few easy clicks. They're also offering a best price guarantee. Still no word on that onboard WiFi!

· Scorpion stings are the new lost luggage, and apparently a stab to the leg can be quite lucrative. United Airlines has made a decent offer to the guy who got sliced on a recent flight from Chicago to Burlington, Vermont. Maybe they'll be less stingy with the cash now that the Beijing flight has come through. Then again, they're an airline, so probably not.

· Speaking of lost luggage, Air Canada doesn't have the best record with it. A recent Canadian local news investigation reported that 1 in every 100 Air Canada passengers has their luggage "misplaced." That statistic puts Air Canada on part with domestic carriers SkyWest (a Delta and United partner) and Mesa (a Delta and US Airways partner), as per recent DOT statistics.

Related Stories:
· Don't Miss the Boat -- Go Cruising With JetBlue [JetBlue]
· Cruises [JetBlue]
· Airline looks to make amends for scorpion stings [BFP]
· Airline loses luggage for 1 in every 100 passengers [CTV]

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On the Trail of Scare Canada

12/05/2006 at 11:30 AM
Tags: Airlines, YouTube, WestJet, Air Canada (all tags)

This film (above is part one of six) was produced by a WestJet employee, though we're not sure what sort of official distribution it got, if any, outside of YouTube. It's a parody of the Blair Witch Project, but instead of the "Blair" Witch, it's the "Air" Witch being hunted...and she works for "Scare" Canada (WestJet, an LCC, competes with Air Canada). Ha ha! Get it?

The Air Witch lives in the woods and apparently terrorizes Scare Canada passengers by slapping their hands when they reach for more pretzels. Have you flown with both WestJet and Air Canada? Which airline do you prefer? Let us know that, plus whether or not you managed to finish all six segments of the film, in the comments. (Embedding was disabled by the video poster; click here to view).

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