JFC Travel Blog

I’ve written a lot about NXEC recently but I’ve not yet came to a verdict on whether they’ll live up to GNER’s standards. Today marks the launch of National Express East Anglia which is just a rebranding of the franchise formerly known as ‘one‘. In this case it’s no change of ownership, just a simple rebranding. As a name anything is an improvement over ‘one’ but I don’t know why they didn’t just use their official name London Eastern Railway.

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As mentioned in a previous blog post, the only problem I had with GNER’s new online booking engine (which has continued to be used by National Express) was that it did not accept American Express. I was promptly told that support for Amex was due to be added in January and, as promised, it arrived towards the end of the month. (more…)

The US Transport Security Administration (TSA) has created a blog in an attempt to justify their ineffective security theatre. They have a small number of bloggers writing articles and moderating the comments. Although they seem to be avoiding most of the big questions they still appear to be allowing most criticism in their comments. A quick look through the site shows how unpopular they have become with the travelling public. I look at Flyertalk’s security forum will show you why.