Yesterday Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced that children, 12 and younger, would no longer be required to remove their shoes at Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security checkpoints and be able to have their hands swabbed for explosives rather than be subject to a pat down. The TSA’s move to allow children to…
Say what you will about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), but the agency is made up of people and those people are just like you and I. The within the TSA are parents, neighbors, someone’s brother, sister, child … and they share a common experience of where they were on September 11th 2001 and what…
Getting from the ‘land side’ to the ‘air side’ of an airport security checkpoint can be frustrating, especially for infrequent flyers. Airport security checkpoints in the US and around the world may have different designs, but the process of getting through a checkpoint with your belonging is always the same. This reader mail comes…
There are many dedicated airline social media executors and social media directors. Those running an airline’s social media successfully are a driven breed, but one airline’s Head of Social Media took his loyalty to his airline one step further than most … … one week ago today SAS’s Facebook page reached its 100,000th Like…
There is the old saying that someone should not count their chickens before they hatch … although in the case of Air India it seems that not only did the airline believe they’d be admitted into Star Alliance on the 31st of July, many of the alliance’s member airlines believed Air India would be joining…
This past Friday Saudi Arabian media and social media sources began reporting that an engine had fallen from a Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747’s wing causing the aircraft to crash in the sparsely populated Rub Al Khali Desert. Further reports spreading through out various social media channels stated that there were fatalities and significant difficulties…
For more than a year there has been speculation and doubt regarding Air Zimbabwe’s claims that the airline has acquired two Airbus A340 long haul aircraft. As Air Zimbabwe continued to discuss the acquisition of the Airbus A340 aircraft over the past year, there were cracks in the story, such as the variant of…
Fish’s Note: Today’s Flying With Fish appears as a guest post on Benet Wilson’s AviationQueen.com blog with the title ‘Guest Post: Air India Is At A Crossroads’. I’m a huge fan of Benet Wilson, who happens to be AviationWeek’s Online Managing Editor. You can read today’s post HERE on AviationQueen.com … or right here. …
After a three-and-a-half year serious, but not committed, relationship Air India was left at the alter by Star Alliance on the 1st of August 2011. Now as Air India tries to hold its chin up and assure everyone that they are OK, SkyTeam has reportedly stepped into try and swoop the airline off its feet….
A few weeks ago a new batch of 500 Flying With Fish Euro stickers arrived on my doorstep. I expected this box to last at least six months, if not a little longer, but instead they’re nearly all gone after a few weeks.  As of this mooring only 103 stickers remain … … and…
