Gunnar Olson ✈️

@gunnarolson.bsky.social

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🏔️ Flatlander with mountain envy. ✈️ Writing about airlines and flight deals for Thrifty Traveler. 🏡 Minneapolis.

A puck sits on a frozen pond with a pink sky sunset glow behind the trees in the background.
Alaska Airlines rendering of a white blended wing jet that is extra wide, has engines on the top, and is flat on the back, along with a seat map of what that aircraft could look like with a hilariously wide cabin featuring a 2-5-4-5-2 economy seating layout.
Two hockey players on a frozen lake.
A Thrifty Traveler story highlighted in red in the footnotes of senate report on airline junk fees on pg. 51.
A black snow-measuring stake in front of a white fence in a slightly snowy Minneapolis yard.
Skier underneath his tracks on a snowy Revelstoke Mountain Resort.
Austin airport board meeting slide showing a new lounge space.
A route map of flights on Delta from Austin, Texas to non-Delta hubs.
Screenshot of a Delta presentation talking about cabin segmentation.
Airfare from LAX to Auckland, New Zealand.
A snow stake in a snowless backyard.
Flight deal information for an Icelandair Business Class flight deal.
A map of the flight between Miami and South Caicos Island.
Two premium economy airplane seats aboard a Singapore Airlines A350.