April 15, 2013
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Margaret's Loins Bear Fruit

Never since flashing her jewels on New York’s Studio 54 dance floor in 1975, has Margaret Trudeau been happier. The fruit of her loom, little Justin, has been coronated as befits the son of liberal royalty. She’s waited decades…

April 10, 2013
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Jet, Jet, On The Wall…

Who is the fairest of them all? No human male can resist the pull of a plane. It’s in their DNA, Pumpkins. They all end up succumbing to the mistress of the air. Now when I see Michael…

April 05, 2013
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You Earned Your Day

What’s better than Christmas & my birthday all rolled into a Victoria’s Secret pillow fight tournament? Huh? Anybody? If you guessed Travel Agent Day you’d be right on the money. Retailers are doing cartwheels gearing up for the May…

April 02, 2013
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Introducing Trans-Fat Fares

Slow is underrated, Pumpkins. Slow food – good. Slow sex – better. (Pretty much any sex is good at my age, even pity sex. Anyone?) Point is the OJ Voting Booth shows 40% of you are saying business is s-l-o-o-o-w.…

March 27, 2013
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Flatus Me Not

Science has confirmed something we in travel know all too well, Pumpkins. (Besides the fact that a cheap client moves oxygen in reverse proportion to the size of their pants). The new news is that at certain altitudes, humans are…

March 25, 2013
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Who Are You People?

All I can say is it’s a bloody good thing consumers don’t read Open Jaw. If they saw the comments posted on the Red Tag Vacations articles they would never go near a travel agent. Even the dinkettes are…

March 21, 2013
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Painting The Thom Red

My goodness, dahrlings, I don’t know if it’s a sense of relief I feel today at finally knowing Sunquest’s fate – or if I’m just hung over. For the hundreds of Thomas Cook staff who have been sold to the…

March 19, 2013
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Horror At YUL

Fair warning, Pumpkins. A serious situation has developed at YUL. And thank goodness I was there to witness it so you can alert your clients. Rapidair pax at Pierre Elliot Trudeau now have to line up at the leisure…

March 13, 2013
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Blah Blah Blah

Oy. Charlie Brown’s school teacher’s tromboning blah blah blah voice has taken over travel, Pumpkins.  Some of the gobblegook being hatched as business plots seems carefully designed to put us to sleep, dahrlings. Beware. Case in point – Harriet Green…

March 11, 2013
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Have We Come A Long Way, Babies?

Friday was International Women’s Day and I feel just dreadful, Pumpkins, about not having marked the occasion with my scent. I was caught off guard with news of 4 TICO offenders (Everyone really has to stop offending TICO. It’s not…