Tag: Flights
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3 Ways A Long Flight Can Be Made More Bearable
Boredom. Numbness. Itchy eyes. Constant noise. Jet lag. Mediocre food and boring in-flight entertainment filled with re-runs and Hollywood remakes. If you have ever taken a long-haul flight, you are most likely familiar with some – or all – of these. Things can get even worse when you fly overseas – sometimes the long hours…
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Introducing Nanak Flights – Find Cheap Flights in Canada & USA
Nanak Flights is a superb travel agency celebrating their 5th year in business. Their website allows customers to book airline flights at a significant savings. When you’re booking flights online for North American travel it can be easy to fall in the routine of booking from the airline and just accepting the prices they have set. Break…
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Welcome New Leaf – The New Canadian Budget Airline
Today has been an exciting day for Canadian travel. After years of moaning, Canada is finally able to welcome a budget airline to its ranks. Serving 7 Canadian cities, New Leaf is the new Canadian airline we’ve all been waiting for. While they may not be booking flights until mid February, I wanted to see…
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Chopper Flight Over the Tombstone Mountain Range
Crawling into the rather small helicopter on the tarmac of Dawson City’s tiny airport, I couldn’t help but smile. Up until this point, I had never stepped foot inside a helicopter, and what better way to pop my chopper cherry than in the colossal mountains of the Yukon. Looking at this sophisticated piece of machinery, I couldn’t…
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Air Canada VS Westjet VS Porter – A Canadian Airline Comparison
The Canadian Airline industry has never been all that friendly to its consumers wallets. Sure they might give you a free coffee & juice on a flight, they might even include some Bits & Bites if you’re lucky. But complimentary service aside, sometimes it doesn’t feel like they have the “people’s interest” in mind. Recent…
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Travel Tip – Book Flights in Canada with Price Drop Protection
If you’re a frugal traveller such as myself, flights have and always will be one of the most expensive part of your travels. Unfortunately Canada has yet to produce any budget airlines like those in Europe & Australia. The most common travel tip I hear when it comes to flights is to “shop around”. However,…
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Save Big Bucks with Travelgrove
There are plenty of services out there to find cheap flights online. By now most people know that this is definitely the way to go when you’re trying to save money on your travels. However, one thing people seem to neglect is how much you can save by shopping around. I’ve recently come across an…
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Track Cheap Flights with Facebook
With the ease of traveling through many countries these days, it’s only natural to want old friends (or perhaps flames) to make a stop wherever you are. Seeing as Facebook has become the primary means of communication for international friends, it would only make sense to be able to keep an eye out on cheap…
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How to get Free Wifi in Airports
A few weeks back I came across an article on how to get free wifi at airports. Knowing I was going to be flying soon I bookmarked it. Smart idea, as luck would have it, this little travel hack seemed to work at the Regina Airport. As many of you know, Airport Wifi will cost…