Different airlines have different luggage policies. Frequent travelers would know the inconvenience it can cause when one has got extra luggage and the airline either refuses to accommodate it or charges exorbitant fees for carrying it. LuggageLimits is a useful website that can help you avoid such situations. Select the airline, departure and arrival airports, [...]
Xm.my is a simple web tool that lets you create short map links for any location on Google Maps and easily share them online (Twitter, Facebook, Delicious… etc.) From the page: Map URLs are long. For example, the actual Google Maps link to San Diego looks like this: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=San+Diego&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=30.957823,56.513672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=San+Diego,+California&ll=32.730108,-117.170563&spn=0.128233,0.220757&z=12 Try tweeting or texting this – [...]
For the social network buffs who religiously update their status on Facebook and Twitter, they can now continue doing it even when they are at an altitude of 20,000 feet sitting in an airplane without internet access. MySkyStatus, a service by Lufthansa airlines does that for you. Enter the carrier name, departure date and the [...]
Flight delays are always trick to monitor and can be really tiring for regular travelers who stuck in airports. There are services like Flightwait which can tell about air travel delays, but most of them relay on updates from airlines. However, a new web application called FlightCaster goes a step ahead and can warn you [...]
BestParking is a handy site that allows drivers to compare and find cheap parking in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington DC, and all major airports. It can show both short-term and long-term parking rates for more then 3,000 parking garages run by different parking operators. You can search for parking by [...]
AboutAirportParking is a website that lets you find and reserve parking spot at airports online. It lists information on more then 400 airport parking lots at more than 100 airports. You can compare prices for different lots and save money by parking at remote ones. To reserve parking spot online, first locate the airport from the [...]
FlightWait is a web tool that can help you avoid delays in airports by letting you check real-time flight conditions on the web. The site gets its data from the Federal Aviation Association (FAA) and maps it on top of Google Maps. All flight data is shown with an easy to understand color coded lines: [...]
Nowadays many airports have Wi-Fi services so people can use their laptops or smartphones to check their emails as soon as they land. If you are traveling and would like to check if your destination airport has Wi-Fi, check out a web service called AtLarge. AtLarge is a free to use web tool that shows [...]