Not long ago Malaysia Airlines forbid children from being seated in the upper deck of their Boeing 747s and Airbus A380 flights flying between its hub at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and London’s Heathrow Airport. Many airlines unofficially discourage children from flying in premium cabins and RyanAir has long since threatened to launch kid free…
It is not often a politician makes an aviation comment that is too good to pass up … but … this past Saturday night, the 22nd of September, while Mitt Romney spoke to a group of 1,500 supporters at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, he made such a comment. As Mr. Romney briefly discussed his…
Travelers in the United States have come to blame everything on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). It seems no matter what the issue, the TSA is blamed, be it parking enforcement, gate agents, police, passport control … it all seems to land squarely on the TSA’s shoulders. Does the TSA deserve to be blamed? …
It is the dream of many people to live and work in the United States. Some people come to the United States legally, some illegally … and some come here legally and simply stay illegally. For Bimbo Oyewole, a Nigerian immigrant, who had spent the past twenty years as a security supervisor at Newark…
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…
As a photographer I have had what seemed to be a natural biased against using my iPhone over my ‘real cameras’ for a long time.  Naturally when I saw an image I wanted to hold a full size camera in my hand, select my exposure and have a choice of lenses … at worst, I…
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…
There is a common myth, which I have heard a number of times in the past that the New York Yankees were the first professional baseball team to travel by air in 1946. As much as I detest discussing the Yankees’ numerous true achievements as a life long Boston Red Sox fan (who was born…
