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One Mile at a Time
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One Mile at a Time is a personal blog at onemileatatime.boardingarea.com about culture and business. Since 2014, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Can You Save Money by Buying Frontier Tickets at the Airport?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (21) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link One Mile at a Time for practical airline and travel coverage: passenger compensation rights, airline policy, airport and border procedures, status challenges and airline news.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 21 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2017/04/11/what-are-your-rights-if-you-get-bumped-from-a-flight/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-04-11
- Can You Save Money by Buying Frontier Tickets at the Airport?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-06-08
What Hacker News says?
Not sure if Abu Dhabi still does it. It has, however, been an unmitigated disaster: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2014/09/07/etihads-ab...
Comment linking /2014/09/07/etihads-abu-dhabi-pre-clearance-still-disaster/
on ““I was just asked to balance a Binary Search Tree by JFK's airport immigration””Submitted United Doesn’t Let Basic Economy Passengers Check-In Online as a story · 5 points
HN discussionNot the OP but: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/?s=munich+lounge I've flown Lufthansa plenty of times, they're great, even economy.
Comment linking /?s=munich+lounge
on “United removes first-class passenger to make room for 'higher-priority' traveler”Submitted RUMOR: White House Announcing Electronics Ban for Europe Flights Shortly as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> abuse of the "deny boarding" part of the contract of carriage to keep their expenses down If they keep their expenses down is does benefit customers in paying less for tickets. > They offered $800 vouchers, which are limited flying coupons. Legally they're required to offer cash up to $1350. Legally, they can negotiate with customer. If they refused to offer cash that is illegal. But they can offer whatever they l…
Comment linking /2017/04/11/what-are-your-rights-if-you-get-bumped-from-a-flight/
on “Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident”Submitted Hi, I’m Ben… and I Don’t Travel the World for Free as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThe most common commercial plane in America is the Boeing 737 [1]. It seats 100 to 200 passengers [2]. Delta officers and first captains make $320 and $200 thousand, respectively, and fly about 1,000 hours a year [3]. So 520 per hour, between the two of them. A main-cabin ticket to New York from San Jose, California about 2 months out costs $146. (Its SJC to MSP leg happens to be on a 737.) Flight time is about 6 ho…
Comment linking /2016/12/01/delta-pilot-pay-raise/
on “American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off”Submitted Why Don’t Airlines Lower Fuel Surcharges? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe hours are a bit different too. I don't think many people working at Google making 300k per year are working only 900 hours per year. http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/03/09/airline-pi... "Pilots at US carriers can work up to 100 hours per month and up to 1,000 hours per year, though in practice most pilots are going to fly closer to 900 hours per year. For example, a 12th year captain on the 777, 787,…
Comment linking /2016/03/09/airline-pilot-pay/
on “American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off”Submitted Can You Save Money by Buying Frontier Tickets at the Airport? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionProbably this: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2015/06/14/united-str...
Comment linking /2015/06/14/united-strands-hundreds-in-remote-goose-bay-canada-for-20-hours/
on “Air India Taking Advantage of Tailwinds”Submitted British Airways Is Introducing Seats That Don’t Recline as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe state government has very recent precedent of subsidizing nonstop flights [1], because it recognizes that they are key to drawing external investment in the city. This year, taxpayers voted to add a new north/south rapid transit line [2]. Maybe more importantly; public transit isn't as important in indy as it is in other cities. Substantially lower cost of living and a more sparse downtown allows driving to be m…
Comment linking /2017/09/06/delta-indianapolis-paris/
on “Amazon to Build Second HQ in North America”Submitted Awesome: EasyJet Hires a Teenage Pilot as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe "fix" for the issues that the Germanwings tragedy laid bare was a "2-person policy": if one of the pilots has to leave the cockpit, another member of the crew will take their place. But this introduced new problems, e.g. the time that the cockpit door needed to be open increased considerably, creating new opportunities for forcibly entering the cockpit. Many airlines are in the process of rolling back this polic…
Comment linking /2017/04/30/two-person-cockpit-rule-abolished/
on “Access codes for United cockpit doors accidentally posted online”Submitted $200/day Toursim fee in Bhutan is a good thing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou are legally entitled to cash compensation but you specifically have to ask for it. http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/04/11/what-are-y...
Comment linking /2017/04/11/what-are-your-rights-if-you-get-bumped-from-a-flight/
on “Leaked email from United Airlines CEO blames passenger for violent removal”Submitted Sprint vs. T-Mobile International Data as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIn NYC, and I assume London some people are taking a helicopter to the airport which is going to be even faster than a train. EX: 99$ tacked onto a 8-10K ticket it cheap. Bump that to say ~1k if they are picking you up directly and it's still in line with a Concord flight. http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2015/01/21/gotham-air...
Comment linking /2015/01/21/gotham-airs-new-99-helicopter-manhattan-jfkewr/
on “NASA to begin historic new era of X-Planes”https://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/09/26/buy-cheap...
Comment linking /2017/09/26/buy-cheap-frontier-tickets-airport/
on “US government to use facial recognition technology at Mexico border crossing”Emirates has them on the A380: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2015/01/30/guide-to-t...
Comment linking /2015/01/30/guide-to-the-emirates-a380-first-class-shower-suite/
on “Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London nonstop”Current longest non-stop commercial flight, Air India DEL to SFO, has been very popular and often operate at 85% capacity 6 times a week[0][1]. Air India is adding DEL to LAX non-stop next month. It's especially popular with elderly travellers, as there's no hassle of transit. [0] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/A... [1] http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/10/18/air-india-...
Comment linking /2016/10/18/air-india-longest-flight/
on “Qantas wants to fly from Sydney to New York or London nonstop”Similar circumstances in the "It gets worse" section here: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/02/22/immigratio...
Comment linking /2017/02/22/immigration-searching-phone/
on “Travelers just won back a bit of their privacy at the border”Check the "It gets worse" section of this: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/02/22/immigratio...
Comment linking /2017/02/22/immigration-searching-phone/
on “Travelers just won back a bit of their privacy at the border”Likewise. A cursory search turns up a couple links.[0][1] It seems to involve the fact they had to deplane passengers who had already boarded, rather than merely deny them boarding. [0] http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/04/11/united-den... [1] https://np.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/64m8lg/why_is_...
Comment linking /2017/04/11/united-denied-boarding-illegal/
on “Which Airline Kicks Off the Most Passengers?”Travel 'writing' as a literary exercise might be dead, but travel blogging as a professional pursuit is in its heyday thanks to credit cards. Sites like OMAAT[0] or TPG[1] make great revenue off writing about the practical aspects of travel (planes, hotels, etc.) and referring people for credit cards. This is enough to subsidize plenty of "traditional" destination blogging as well. If you want to do travel writing,…
Comment linking /
on “Is Travel Writing Dead?”"The two most important points are that you have to book at least seven days in advance, and can have at most four one-way reservations active at any point. By my math, that means you’ll get at most 16 one-way tickets booked per month. At most." [0] [0] http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/02/03/unlimited-...
Comment linking /2016/02/03/unlimited-flying-onego/
on “The ‘Netflix for planes’ offers unlimited air travel for a monthly fee”Slightly tangential but, to your point about UAE airlines this is a good read to clear up some stuff coming from US airlines: Link: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2017/03/22/campaign-a... I'll admit there is no perfect solution to issues like these. We mostly don't want government to pick winners or losers, but being completely free market based and no monopoly protections is great for companies since it is…
Comment linking /2017/03/22/campaign-against-gulf-carriers/
on “Corporate Monopoly in America”Check out AA Gold & Platinum status challenge which is even better deal this year: http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/01/05/how-to-do-...
Comment linking /2016/01/05/how-to-do-an-american-aadvantage-status-challenge/
on “The Biggest Mistake Most (In)Frequent Flyers Make”Trains in most European countries will do the same. What's the deal? http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2013/10/25/amtrak-dea... http://www.sncf.com/fr/presse/fil-info/changement-heure-hive... http://www.zeitumstellung.de/bahnbetrieb.html http://m.sbb.ch/news.newsdetail.2012-10-2510_1.html
Comment linking /2013/10/25/amtrak-deal-time-changes/
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