Today’s reader mail addresses something many passengers notice, but tend to not think about … seemingly everyday items that are not what they appear when seen on board an aircraft. This reader mail was spawned by today’s earlier blog post, Alaska Airlines’ Internal Note On An External Wing, and comes from Andrea J., in Manitoba,…
Last Saturday, the 28th of July 2012, as Alaska Airlines‘ Boeing 737-790 N611AS flew along passengers noticed some writing in black magic marker on the aircraft’s starboard side, with an arrow pointing to a cut out in the flap. While the crescent shaped cut out on the 737’s outboard flap has clearly been machine…
OK … to start off, I don’t believe a single video can repair a fractured company. American Airlines is battling internally and externally to exit bankruptcy on its own terms, bring labour and management together, and part of the company is on board with a merger with US Airways while part of the company seeks…
The number of airline safety video parodies I have seen is more than I can count on all my fingers and toes … and the fingers and toes of my three kids. The number of airline safety parody videos that actually made me laugh would be zero until this evening (I don’t count Air New…
This morning I received an email from Melissa Miles, of New York, enquiring about aircraft with low N-Numbers … an interesting question indeed. In Melissa’s email she asked, “I have been traveling recently and spotted a few airplanes with N numbers that were very low. Who owns these planes? I didn’t know an airplane could…
Having grown up watching planes fly over my house, all day and night, and having spent the last 27 years (of my 37 years on this Earth) generally found with a camera in my hand, it is only natural that I can at times be found shooting photos of airplanes. Over the years I’ve shot…
In just over a week the 2012 Olympic Games will commence. London’s busy airports will receive a massive influx of passengers, straining their already strained security checkpoints. Recently it has come to light that G4S security, which provides security at a number of airports in the United Kingdom, including Britain’s global gateway, London’s Heathrow…
One vestige of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) absurd security should be gone in a few weeks, as the agency has announced it intends to allow snow globes to travel in passenger carry on baggage again. Snow globes were banned from carry-on bags by the TSA following a failed terrorist plot in the United…
For years I have actively avoided using the term “Security Theater” when discussing the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Over the years I have torn the TSA apart as well as defended them, as the agency has good and bad, while most people just focus on the bad. Today however, looking at technologies the TSA is…
Today I planned to write about a very different topic, but somewhere early this morning I got side tracked by an unrelated conversation with a friend that got me thinking about flying with babies (no, I am not having a baby … I’ve already have three kids, currently aged 5, 7 and 12). As I…
