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Look who’s in Oprah’s O Magazine!

By The Flying Pinto

I felt like a super star when I gave my best time saving travel tips for the October edition of O Magazine! It’s funny when you talk to an editor for an hour and you envision them writing everything down that you said and that of course your information will fill an entire page! At […]

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A great perk of my of my job is bringing my family with me on trips sometimes. On a recent trip to Seattle my mom and my daughter Lucy were able to meet up with me. Here are a few photos from our day… First Class with Nana Getting settled in our hotel room. Big […]

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Making the Most of Australia with Limited Time

By The Flying Pinto

As you fly into any of Australia’s major airports, you may have grand plans of seeing the whole country from its outback deserts to its coral reefs in a matter of days. It’s easy to forget just how massive the country really is, even when you’re flying across it. Whether you have a weekend or […]

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A Flight Attendant’s Guide to Jet Lag

By The Flying Pinto

When traveling across two or more time zones you become prone to jet lag. Though there is no quick fix for jet lag, here a few tips to get you through: Be in the best shape you can be before your trip. If you have advanced notice, start eating healthy, take your vitamins and get […]

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Machu Picchu

By The Flying Pinto

Guest post by reader Sylwia Stypulkowski: Ever hold back on something you wanted because you questioned whether the time was right or if you should really be spending money on yourself like that? Welcome to my mentality… For my 27th birthday, I decided to push that sort of thinking aside and treat myself for once. […]

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Flight Attendant

By The Flying Pinto

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Flight Attendants have special needs when it comes to filing taxes and are allowed certain deductions that could make itemizing well worth it.  The airline gives a flight attendant what’s called per diem. It’s like an expense account. A really small expense account. So small in fact that the government allows us to write off  […]

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How you look says a lot about you. I know the last thing you are thinking about when it comes to air travel is style. You’re more interested in how to squeeze everything into your one carry on and all you care about is being in something comfortable for your long flight but, you don’t […]

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“A family of six who attempted to fly on just three tickets were kicked off the plane by flight attendants.” as reported by the Daily Mail. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2081013/Family-thrown-US-Airways-flight-trying-fit-just-THREE-seats.html#ixzz1iFIFgSBD It’s articles like these that make me realize how misinformed the flying public really is. Air travel is extremely safe and 2011 was one of the […]

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If you haven’t had a chance check out my podcast The Crew Lounge on upgrd.com! I’m proud to say we’re up to 79 episodes which you can subscribe to for free on itunes! And, while you’re there be sure to rate and review us! You can also check out a whole section of airline bloggers […]

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