January 06, 2014
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Is It 2014 Yet?

Well, Pumpkins, 2013 has packed up and left along with the relatives. Thankfully. The year was starting to smell like the leftover herring. Was it a good one? Not as momentous as the millennium, but just as eventful for itravel.…

December 20, 2013
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Bah, Humbug

There’s far too much hugging and kissing at this time of year, Pumpkins. And not the good kind – I’m confronted with the sensible, sober kind at every turn. “Oh no, here comes Howard from accounting!” It’s all nonsense anyway because out…

December 17, 2013
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Hip Hip & Hurrah For Our Fearless Leaders!

Oh yessiree. And here I thought Gregg Saretsky was just another pretty airline face. The man has depth, Pumpkins. Deepness. Profundity. He recently gave the National Post an interview on WestJet’s growing pains that was so clear and straightforward,…

December 11, 2013
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Where's My Box?

Dear Pumpkins, I have been peering up the WestJet baggage carousel for 2 days now waiting for my teal wrapped gift box to descend. Last night the Pearson attendants kindly pulled me back down from the conveyor opening when…

December 04, 2013
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Ho Ho Ho No

Dear Pumpkins, To date, over 200 of you have voted in this week’s Open Jaw Voting Booth – and of that, almost 60% admit to selling whichever supplier pays the most. I understand. I do. Back in the…

November 29, 2013
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Another One Cometh

Well, dahrlings, another illustration of the male drive to dominate the skies is in play. This time out of the west with “aviation vets” Jim Scott (VP Nexus), Dix Lawson (consultant) and David Solloway (formerly Oasis Hong Kong Airlines) announcing…

November 26, 2013
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Was It An Inside Job?

Sometimes, dahrlings, if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a scheming gaggle of company directors. Sometimes it’s a duck. The itravel2000 saga, as it will be referred to until the next millennium, has all the…

November 20, 2013
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It's Not So Elementary My Dear Watson

Where will it end dear Pumpkins… ? The IBM super-computer that won Jeopardy – sexily named Watson – is now being touted as the next competitor to living, breathing travel agents. According to the computer maker, all you need…

November 14, 2013
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Why Did The Pumpkin Cross The Border?

Because dynamic packaging propelled it there, dahrlings. How very clever of Sunquest to release themselves from the shackles of Canadian gateways and offer cheap packages from U.S. border towns. Without all that aircraft baggage to worry about, I bet…