{"id":136,"date":"2005-07-20T10:12:26","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T10:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-07-20T10:12:26","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T10:12:26","slug":"blagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Blagging"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve invented a new buzzzword (renamed an existing one)<\/em>. “Blaqgging”<\/em> is weblogging to counteract the effects of jet lag. Having spent all but 2 of the past 29 hours awake I can’t vouch for the quality. To provide some context here I’m currently safely ensconced in the Hampton Inn<\/a>, Logan Airport, Boston where I’m staying the night. For the 2nd time ever I decided to chance getting a ticket in an airport and it couldn’t have been a worse move. My shannon-boston flight that was supposed to arrive at 6:30 was 25 minutes late in landing. Add in over an hour of delays for luggage reclaim and a missing (no shit!, 40 minutes late)<\/i> ternimal shuttle bus & I was never going to get outta there last night. However, for all you regular US visitors I can sincerely recommend the prompt service and low cost of AirTran<\/a> airways. They found me a direct flight 1st thing this morning from Logan to Virginia at less than a 3rd the cost of the US Airways <\/a>equivalent. What’s more amazing is that it was at 10:30 last night yet the cost was just over a hundred dollars.
\nSo here’s my top 5 tips<\/b> to avoid Air travel frustration:<\/p>\n

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  1. Inform your longhaul airline (mine was Aerlingus<\/a>)<\/em> well in advance if you require a specially prepared meal. Coeliacs like me<\/em> may have to explain to them what a coeliac is and why they can’t eat lasagne<\/li>\n
  2. Book your connecting flights if you’re arriving in the airport after 3:00pm and don’t want to be stranded overnight. <\/li>\n
  3. Check out the AirTran and JetBlue sites for connecting flights in the US. They’re both very cheap and provide good service. Especially AirTran.<\/li>\n
  4. Don’t puke on or near<\/b> the staff no matter how nauseous you feel<\/li>\n
  5. Don’t confuse the European idea of reserving\/holding a ticket with the American concept. It could just have been tiredness of the part of both the staff and I but I ended up with a round-the-world-to-get-next-door itinerary from US Airways that they assured me was exactly what I was looking for. One call to AirTran convinced me this wasn’t the case.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve invented a new buzzzword (renamed an existing one). “Blaqgging” is weblogging to counteract the effects of jet lag. Having spent all but 2 of the past 29 hours awake I can’t vouch for the quality. To provide some context here I’m currently safely ensconced in the Hampton Inn, Logan Airport, Boston where I’m staying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1705],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}