Aug 13th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Think you have the ultimate travel story? Hostelworld.com is celebrating its 10th anniversary and wants to hear about your best travel adventure of the last decade. Tell your inspiring, amazing, crazy or hilarious tale and you may win a €500 travel voucher.
Stories must be between 500 and 1500 words and be accompanied by a photo. The writer of the story selected as the best will receive the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Tell your best travel story and win a Hostelworld.com voucher
Aug 13th, 2009 at 3:00PM: Think you have the ultimate travel story? Hostelworld.com is celebrating its 10th anniversary and wants to hear about your best travel adventure of the last decade. Tell your inspiring, amazing, crazy or hilarious tale and you may win a €500 travel voucher.
Stories must be between 500 and 1500 words and be accompanied by a photo. The writer of the story selected as the best will receive the ...Hungarian airline stunt too successful
Jun 25th, 2009 at 8:00AM: A crowd pissed all over Wizz Air's attempt to release 1,000 balloons into the sky. The low-cost airline had hoped to celebrate its fifth anniversary, but the Hungarian crowd was drawn to the event by the rumor of freebies hooked to the balloons – coupons worth $49.95 – ultimately ruining it for everybody.
The balloons were held in a net in Budapest. Attendees started to pop balloons ...Giving up your seat for a voucher? Only on one condition!
May 19th, 2009 at 4:00PM: It's always pretty tempting. You're sitting in the gate area and hear the voice on the loudspeaker, offering travel vouchers and other perks if you'll give up your seat because your flight is oversold. You know the drill ... "if your travel plans are flexible." Well, while en route to the Gadling meet-up in Chicago, I got this opportunity and decided to roll the dice. Along the way, I learned a ...Help! I've been bumped!
Jan 15th, 2009 at 11:00AM: No, bumping is not the latest craze to hit European dance floors, it's what airlines do when they have more passengers than seats. Chances are that you've been waiting in the departure gate area and have heard the gate agents ask for volunteers for a later flight. Overbooking has become a very profitable thing for airlines, and they have developed pretty smart mathematical systems to determine ...Which airlines are you most likely to get kicked off?
Feb 6th, 2008 at 1:00PM: According to the Department of Transportation, more people were involuntarily bumped from their flights last year than in over a decade. The total comes to a whopping 63,000 very angry passengers who had no choice but to give up their seats because of an overbooked flight. An additional 620,000 passengers voluntarily gave up their seats last year to get those free-flight vouchers and other goodies ...
