Just for fun, I’m starting a new weekly news feature called ¨Travel Haiku News.¨ In it, I’ll summarize the top travel news of the week every Friday…in haiku format. And, in case you want to read more, I’ve got a link to an original article about the story.

1. Alaska Air system goes down

Alaska Air down
Passengers stuck on the ground
YouTube response…¨Whoops¨

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-03-26/travel/alaska.airlines.outage_1_computer-system-outage-transformer?_s=PM:TRAVEL

2. Air New Zealand launches new in-flight safety videos

Air NZ new vids
Richard Simmons sweatin’ hard
Prefer nude flight crew

http://www.tnooz.com/2011/03/28/news/words-may-fail-you-but-it-is-another-youtube-hit-for-air-zew-zealand/

3. Gordon Brown and his entourage displace people from flight

Gordon Brown: ¨Diva¨
No friend of ¨little people¨
BA response…¨Whoops¨

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/27/gordon-browns-ba-fail-for_n_841116.html

4. Airlines have worst luggage delivery record in the past 2 years

Luggage woes again
Fees not invested to help?
Suck it, passenger!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42330583/ns/travel-news/

5. Huffington Post Travel and AOL’s Gadling merge

Gadling and HuffPo
Sittin’ in a tree. One is
Gettin’ ***K-E-D

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