I would like to travel more and I would love to see more countries, but I am not sure that breaking a record for doing it quickly is quite my goal.

Businessman spends £350k to visit every country on earth in record time (just don’t ask to see his snaps)

He spent £350,000 to visit every country on earth in the shortest time possible and thereby earnt himself a mention in the Guinness Book of Records – just don’t expect to be thrilled by his pictures.

While businessman Kashi Samaddar, 55, dodged bullets and bombs in some of the world’s more unstable countries, and lived to tell the tale, his photographic skills are somewhat wanting.

Nothing makes a protest sound toothless as much as calling it a “fake strike”.

American Airlines flight attendants wrap up fake strike

Flight attendants for American Airlines, bitter over stalled contract negotiations, staged a fake strike Wednesday that included airport picket lines.

At Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, picketing workers handed leaflets to arriving passengers and chanted slogans mocking the CEO. In the air, flight attendants wore red badges to indicate flights they believe couldn’t fly without them.

The rallies attracted media attention, and a few travelers paused to take in the scene, but the protests also underscored the union’s limited options.

One thing that makes it harder to make apples to apples comparisons when you are shopping for travel online is when one site includes taxes and fees and another site does not. It annoys me. Apparently it annoys some regulators as well

The ultimate punishment? Internet travel agency faces record fine for advertising violations

The online travel agency Ultimate Fares faces $600,000 in government fines for failing to include taxes and service fees in its airfares, a U.S. Department of Transportation Administrative Law Judge has ruled. The fine would be the largest ever assessed for advertising violations, according to regulators.

Numerous companies want you to be able to buy/sell frequent flier miles but a U.S. judge has struck down the practice.

Judge Says Selling Frequent Flyer Miles Is Illegal

Should frequent flyer program members be free to sell their airline miles? A U.S. District Court judge, Ronald Leighton, says no. And since he’s a judge, all those aye-sayers and would-be mileage sellers and buyers need to listen up.

But in better news for frequent fliers…

It’s time to probe frequent-flier accounts, senator says

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wants to put airlines on the hook for disappearing frequent-flier miles. The Associated Press writes Schumer “is calling for a federal review of complaints by consumers that they are losing millions of frequent flier miles without notice in confusing agreements. He wants to establish industry rules for frequent flier programs that are billed as a free benefit to help attract and retain customers. There are few restrictions now on how airlines can manage and redeem the miles.”

Other stories worth reeading:

• Is it time for a “Free The Wi-Fi” campaign for hotels?
• Passenger creates big debate at American – I mean big!
• Man Misses Funeral After Southwest Kicks Him Off