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Sioux City – SUX Embracing a funny designator as a brandable name
Sioux City used to complain about their three letter FAA designation as “SUX” Airport. But now, in what appears to be a clever marketing move, they’ve embraced it. More from CNN here.
Posted in Air Travel, Airport, History
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Rick Steves on Rethinking the Massive Cost of Airport Security
the moral of the TSA story is that our safety is coming at a cost that may not be sustainable
Posted in Air Travel, airline, Airline Crash, Airport, Airport Security, terrorism, Travel, Travel Tips, TSA
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American Airlines AAdvantage Miles Expiration – extend mileage expiration with a donation
American Airlines Mileage donation program here: http://joinus.aa.com/miles-for-kids-in-need-aadvantage-miles-donate is both a great cause and a good way to make sure your miles don’t expire unused. Donations will extend your expiration date – usually to 18 months from the date of donation. …
Posted in AA, aadvantage, airline, Airline tickets, airlines, Mileage Plus
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Airport City Codes
Be sure to check our companion site AirportCityCodes.com for Airport Codes, Airlines Codes, and our amazing flight distance calculator which will figure the flight miles from almost any two airports in the world. As a reminder come to QuickAid.com for Airport …
Posted in Airline Transportation, airline websites, airlines, airlines blog, Airport Codes
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IMPORTANT: Defer the Expiration of your Frequent Flyer Miles
All the Airlines seem to be both giving away more and more frequent flyers miles but also making it harder to use the programs. Through credit card offers, not to mention actually travelling on planes, you can rack up …
Posted in AA, aadvantage, american airlines, frequent flyer, Frequent Flyer Programs, Mileage Plus
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China Airports | List of Chinese Airports | Airports of China
Here, from Wikipedia, is the most comprehensive list of Chinese Airports we could find wiht links to the Wikipedia Airport pages for more information. We’ll eventually have these airports covered here at QuickAid.com Airport Directory but in the meantime …
Posted in airlines airports, Airport, Airport Codes, China, China airlines, China Airports
Tagged China, china airport codes, china airports
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New Retirement Site Online – Retire USA
We interrupt our normal Airports Coverage to bring you a new retirement website by the maker of QuickAid. It’s called “Retire USA” and offers retirement-focused information about individual cities all over the country. Retire USA State by State Profiles …
Posted in Retirement
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QuickAid Airport Blog MAINTENANCE ALERT!
Due to problems from the “Pharma hack” on the QuickAid site we are working to restore the blog portion of our site ASAP. Thanks for your patience unless you had something to do with the hack. In that case ….
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Abandoned Airports List (USA Airports)
Thanks to Paul Freeman for a great resource featuring abandoned and little known airports. This list was recently updated on May 1, 2012 and it features over 1500 listings grouped by US State. www.airfields-freeman.com/
TSA Transportation Security Administration Air Travel Review
Although there are more flight travel rules than you could ever fully understand, the basics are fairly simple and boil down to the following notes from the TSA: TSA’s Prohibited Items NOT all-inclusive but helpful. 3-1-1 Rule – CONSOLIDATE your liquids and …