June 26, 2013
Excuse me, dahrlings, but...

Where Is Here?

You poor, dear, Pumpkins. It’s apparent many of you don’t know where you are. You must need a GPS inserted into your addendum to get back home after conference season. Seriously, dahrlings, is it asking too much for travel…

June 17, 2013
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2 B Or Not 2 B

Are any of you still feeling all tingly from that far too short 2 hour long financial analyst call with my dahrling Jean-Marc offering up scintillating details of debt reduction and aircraft leases and EBTDA’s? The man is a poet.…

June 11, 2013
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Stop Trying So Hard!

Good marketing is like good sex, Pumpkins. Too many clumsy lingual gymnastics and you come off nerdy. Everything should flow without anyone discerning the mental exertion that went into it. It’s a ballet, dahrlings.  Take TravelportTube. Really. It’s a…

June 07, 2013
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Stop The Presses!

I knew it. I knew it. Yesterday, at the Q400 unveiling, that sly Saretsky confirmed that he will not unconfirm buying Porter. He also did not, I repeat, did not deny flying to Shanghai or Paris. As you all know,…

June 05, 2013
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You Can't Kill A Brand

It’s down! No, it’s up! What is it? That was the refrain echoing down the halls of travel for the last year. Will Sunquest live to see another winter season? Hobbled, but not dead, the brand which once…

May 31, 2013
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No Damn Clue

You can bet your sweet petunias that those of you who have no clue what the NDC is will be caught with your buds snipped. Petals plucked. Sap sucked. You get my meaning…. According to the previous OJ Voting…

May 29, 2013
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Bumpetty Bump

Consumers are so spoiled, Pumpkins. They demand cheap flights and then they demand compensation for being bumped. Back in the day of passes and ID75’s, if one of us got bumped we knew to respond with “thank you, mistress,…

May 24, 2013
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Let Them Smoke Crack!

Honestly, Pumpkins, I don’t know what to make of anything anymore. Everyone in travel is old (or worse, ‘oldish’), except for the young people. No one has sex (not surprising considering how old everyone is). There’s no money. And…

May 21, 2013
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Travel Budget? We Don't Need No Stinking Travel Budget

We had a good thing going with those Senators, Pumpkins. Until some ethical goodie snot-shoes got involved. The Senate’s motto: “Travel budget? Pish!” were words to live by, Pumpkins. Money’s no object when spending the tax payers’. That’s democracy,…

May 15, 2013
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An Ode To Angie's Jolies

Stars in their own right, Angie’s breasts didn’t put up a fight They’ve been showcased in countless a movie And played supporting roles in passages through puberty But it was time to let them go They can no longer go…