Last week the California Supreme Court handed down an interesting ruling, one that expressly allowed Los Angeles International Airport, more commonly known as LAX, to ban the Hare Krishnas from their airport. Hare Krishnas are well known at many airports. If you fly domestically into LAX you may not see the Hare Krishnas very often,…
Most posts on Flying With Fish require a lot of words … this one really doesn’t. In short Southwest Airlines released its “Battle Cry” television commercial that features a plane with its livery blurred out … it happened to be an AirTran Boeing 717. Today AirTran released an “Udderly Hysterical Video,” stating that they were…
This week’s reader mail comes from someone just starting to navigate their way through airline frequent flyer programs. Gerry from DFW asks “I have started to travel frequently for work which has lead me to start reading FlyerTalk. I see many references to mileage an segment runs, what is the difference?” Gerry … first off…
This blog entry is a quick update of this post earlier today – Once Again Unite The Union Gets The Facts Wrong Regarding The British Airways Strike This update is a break down of some of Unite The Union’s statements now with hard numbers compiled independently of Unite The Union and British Airways. British Airways…
Following yesterday’s break down of Unite The Union’s stream of blatant factual errors, I had hoped to see a follow up press release from Unite The Union rooted in fact, with verifiable details. Unfortunately yesterday evening Unite The Union released its press release for Day Two of the British Airways labour strike, it and it…
Yesterday Unite The Union, the trade union representing British Airways’ cabin crew, began the first stage of a two-part seven-day strike against the airline.  While I am not going to delve into the politics of the strike, I do want to address the significant misinformation and massively factually incorrect press releases issued by Unite The…
I have written about quite a few iPhone Apps that are fantastic tools for tracking flights or finding your way through an airport. But this week’s iPhone App of the Week offers such an extensive set of tools for travelers that I put it off for a few weeks because I didn’t even know where…
Looking at the labour relations in Europe for the past few days I keep having a vision of my father walking into a room and saying “Home many airlines can strike in Europe?” then adjusting his tie, laughing and saying “No, seriously … I’m kidding…” as people stand around waiting for the punch line he’s…
Yesterday afternoon a story in Chicago Tribune dropped a bombshell on airline travelers. In a statement to the Chicago Tribune, Kathleen Petrowsky, the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Director at Chicago O’Hare Airport (ORD), stated that she believed full body scanning, using new body scanning machines, would become mandatory in the future to guard against improvised…
Ever wonder what flight attendants really think about passengers? Curious what they think about other flight attendants? Just interested in the flight attendant lifestyle? Have I got a weekly podcast for you … The Crew Lounge. The Crew Lounges’ hosts are veteran flight attendants Sara, author of TheFlyingPinto.com and Bobby, author of UpUpAndAGay.com, two flight…
