
Next time you fly, keep your boarding pass. Especially if you collect frequent flier miles. And especially if your airline is playing the codeshare game.
John Hamilton wishes he had. He’s a member of Flying Blue, the loyalty program operated by Air France and KLM. He recently flew on Delta Air Lines, an Air France codeshare partner, and expected to get Flying Blue credit.
He didn’t.
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It’s hard to believe that a few short years ago, many veteran travelers, given a choice, wouldn’t go to the airport without a paper ticket.
Now, there seldom is a choice. Most carriers have gone exclusively to e-tickets.
Many travelers, including some of my clients, have gotten so casual about it all now that they just print off an itinerary and go. Some don’t even do that, which results in the occasional phone call or email — “Now, which flight am I on again?”
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April and its showers are just around the corner for the northern hemisphere. They’re caused by the jet streams moving north during the spring.
Though it might rain, many still travel during April, and still want to photograph keep-sake images and create a photographic record of their travels despite the rain. Actually, the sky, before and during those April showers can be dramatic and enhance one’s photos, plus clouds, if not too heavy, can intensify sunrise and sunset photographs.
Of course, rain can also ruin our cameras, especially electronic digital cameras. It’s time to discuss taking photographs in bad weather. [click to continue…]

Delta To shift Chicago-New York shuttle
Delta will start a new shuttle service between New York LaGuardia and Chicago O’Hare on June 10.
The Delta Shuttle service, with 11 daily roundtrip flights departing between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m., will replace existing service between LaGuardia and Chicago Midway that currently is offered nine times a day between the same hours. Even with 11 flights the service will not quite be hourly throughout the time period, with a two-hour gap before and after the 11 a.m. flight out of both cities and another two-hour gap later in the day.
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