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Flightaware – Eyecandy for frequent flyers

wnagele — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:38:11 +0000

I’ve read about this site on the O’Reilly radar recently, a few minutes ago i gave it a try and i’m amazed. It has so much details about U.S. flights you can’t imagine. As Artur also mentions in his posting he already made use of it at least once, otherwise it’s at least eyecandy. Just watch the images from sunrise in the morning travelling from east to west coast and increasing the flights.

So the question is: Do we have something similar in Europe? I couldn’t find anything.

Arrived in Baltimore

wnagele — Fri, 18 May 2007 08:36:35 +0000

After an all-night party regarding the world telecom day 2007 invited by tins (former co-worker of mine). I dropped by the vienna airport at about 6am yesterday.

After the usual check-in procedure we headed over to our flight to Frankfurt. Arrived in Frankfurt at about 9am we had to do the re-routing of Aarons ticket via Boston. This took quite long and Aaron almost missed the flight to Philadelphia. But he finally catched it and we had a 1 hour delayed start in Frankfurt. Therefor we missed our connection in Philadelphia but a very nice woman of US airways rebooked us for the next flight which was about 2 hours later. Finally we arrived at about 8:30pm in Baltimore and surprisingly our luggage also made it. We headed over to Marriot and had a shower. Befor going to bed we grabbed our first US burger (it’s tradition already ) and felt asleep.

Flight booking stress

wnagele — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:13:39 +0000

As always there has to be some issue with our travel stuff. I begin to wonder if it’s possible to do such a trip without stress? This time, Aaron needs to head over to OLPC on MIT in Boston and therefor re-routed his flight with 1 day delay over Boston. However it seems that this is not as easy as it sounds. The tickets have not arrived yet. We’re investigating this further with our travel advisor tomorrow. Cross your fingers.

Time for some better news. Sascha posted some first lines about the preperations for this years summit and a look back in time. At least our tickets to the summit are already here.

CUWiN Summit – Flights booked

wnagele — Mon, 07 May 2007 10:56:09 +0000

Okay, today we received our flight confirmations. We’ll head over to Frankfurt/Main on the 17th of May and go via Philadelphia to Baltimore. Our rooms are booked at Marriot Columbia.

So far it’s clear, that Aaron will take the coordination of the panel “What’s Happening in Europe“.

I’m looking forward to see you all soon …

Back in Vienna

wnagele — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:18:41 +0000

After another seamingless flight from LA to Paris and on to Vienna we arrived yesterday at about 3pm. The only thing i wanted to mention about the trip is my final conclusion that i will never fly again with Air France. We went to the airport in LA 3 hours before departure and had to wait over 2 hours at the checkin desk of Air France. The security afterwards was also this time done in about 10 minutes. So my tip for everyone is to choose other airlines on long distance.

I’ll catch some sleep now – still a bit jet laggy.

You can find my pictures of the trip here.

Flights booked – ready to rumble

wnagele — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:35:21 +0000

Today we’ve finally booked our flights to San Diego. I’ve booked my flight via Chicago earlier this morning and when Teemu found the time to give me his missing details (birthdate, etc.) the flight was booked out. Isn’t it kinda fascinating that Murphy can get his fingers off – at least one time? Whatever, we’ve had to change to some Delta and United flights which are operated by Air France. As Teemu already had bad experiences with them on long distance flights we’re heading forward to that. However we didn’t have any other choice because the refund limitations of NSF (Fly America Act) force us to book american airlines (even if they are operated by an european airline then ).

The currently planned flight schedule is as follows:

Vienna VIE (10.03.2007 10:10 ) – Paris CDG (10.03.2007 12:15)
Paris CDG (10.03.2007 13:15) – Los Angeles LAX (10.03.2007 15:50)
Los Angeles LAX (10.03.2007 17:55) – San Diego SAN (10.03.2007 18:43)

Los Angeles (17.03.2007 16:30) – Paris CDG (18.03.2007 11:05)
Paris CDG (18.03.2007 12:40) – Vienna VIE (18.03.2007 14:40)

We’ve choosen to take this chance to do a little holiday down in california and therefore will stay the days after the workshop in Los Angeles.