Winging It

The Business Travel Coalition has set up a new free Web site that provides links to dozens of other travel sites, many of them run by newspaper columnists and bloggers (including this one). You could spend all day parked here, reading airline and other travel-related news and opinion. The site www.netvibes.com/btc#blogs was started, as BTC chairman Kevin Mitchell explains, because he couldn't find anything else like it online. Needless to say, neither could we, so check it out and bookmark it if you want to keep up with travel news beyond what you learn here about PHL.

Did I ever say I like what PHL administrators do with artwork, adorning many walls that might otherwise be lined with advertising? I can't count the number of times exhibitions have slowed me down as I trod down some of the long corridors.Today Mayor Nutter and other dignataries were on hand to unveil 44 black-and-white photographs of Philadelphia music legends who have stars on the Walk of Fame, on South Broad Street between Walnut and Pine. The exhibition, sponsored by the city and Sunoco Welcome America, is in Terminal A-East through mid-September.

Michael Boyd, a Colorado-based aviation consultant, has taken issue with "the coalition," as he called it, meaning the Business Travel Coalition, and its list of 150 small- and mid-sized airports that could lose service as a result of airline cutbacks. Mike seems to think "the coalition" doesn't know what it's (actually it's a he, Kevin Mitchell) talking about. I thought the group's list was simply a statement of the obvious --- many smaller airports COULD lose service IF there are cutbacks. If you have time and want to read lots more find the critique at Boyd Group Web site.

PHL will not be hit as hard as some other airports this fall when airlines trim their schedules in the face of record fuel costs. Read more from The Inquirer here. In related news, American said it would cut 900 flight-attendant jobs. Other reductions are likely to follow. Read more about that in an AP story.

Change is good, as they say. So our blog has changed to a new format and location over on the Philly.com site, our host. It may look and act a little different, but the new location should make it easier for users to find our posts and raise our profile overall. Find it here. This site will go dormant, but it will still be visible to read back on old posts.