Walk to School

Check out this witty video about getting the kids to school without using a car.

Is this the start of the end for GDS?

It's the Internet stupid!

Tight Arse Travel doesn’t understand why your average traveller would use a Travel Agent when most airlines allow you to book direct through their own website. There has to be money in it for the agent, and that must eventually come from your hard earned, directly or indirectly.

Thanks to airlines like Colorado based Frontier, and Dallas based Southwest, not only can you book flights direct through their websites, there are incentives to do so, or disincentives not to!

Check out Clive Dorman's piece in The Age about airlines taking back control of their business.

AirAsia X Quiet Zone

AirAsia X have done it again - that is, get Tight Arse Travel's vote for innovative thinking.

Early in 2013, they introduced a quiet zone from row 7 through 14 on their long haul flights. Children under 12 cannot be booked in a seat in this area.

Tight Arse Travel only wish they had brought this in a year earlier, that way we would not have had a lovely little munchkin screaming, and kicking the back of our seat all the way from KL to Cochin.