From worst to… er, worster? Tiger Airways went from 21.8% of flights with delays in February to 26% of flights with delays in March. In fact, Tiger has held the top spot of worst on-time performance results among major Australian airlines since it took over from Jetstar in August, 2009 (according to Department of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics).
Bummer if you were caught holding a Flyglobespan ticket this holiday season. The Scottish airline (10 aircraft and 800 staff) picked a crap time to go bust.
About 1300 passengers had been due to fly on Thursday when flights were cancelled. About 5,000 were booked to fly in the next few days and still another 4,000 are already abroad and will soon be hoping to return home.
Name Pauline Frommer Who? Creator of the Pauline Frommer Guidebooks and Co-Host The Travel Show, a nationally syndicated radio show. Pauline appears weekly on CNN.com to discuss the latest travel trends and pens a column for MSN.com. Her guidebook Pauline Frommer’s New York City was just named Best Guidebook of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association. Countries Visited I don’t know. I visited too many before the age of 10 to be able to know how to count ‘em up.
Titanic Nominations
1. Worst Toilet Filthy squatter, Chongquing, China; travel companion’s camera stolen there
2. Worst Show I Ever Had to Sit Through to Review Madame Meg’s Find Your Sexy, Las Vegas. Stiff ex-lawyer turns to stripping to enhance her self-esteem
3. Most Panicked Moment Combining Parenting and Travel Writing 9-year-old daughter stuck in the middle of a zipline course in Costa Rica, dangling 100 feet off the ground
4. Worst Local Delicacy Grasshopper, Indonesia
5. Worst Airline Air Pakistan, duct tape holding together seats, cockroaches in the aisles
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