Photographers like to be ready for anything, I get that, I know that, I have lived that for many years … but when packing cameras in bags that may go under a plane, including being ‘valet checked’ while boarding a Regional Jet or Turbo Prop, packing gear properly makes far more sense than packing it…
On a daily basis someone is complaining that an airline has damaged an item in their checked baggage or that something from their checked baggage was pilfered. These incidents, while barely a statistical blip on the radar compared to all checked baggage, frequently take center stage in public conversation of the airline industry. A…
Its that time of the year again … the last hours of this year are dwindling fast … the end of the year is near. Outside my window the snow has finally fallen, being whipped around in the wind, while at this moment friends in Australia are already three hours into the New Year…
The photography and airline interwebs are abuzz with a scathing blog post by photographer Jess T. Dugan claiming that on the 18th of December 2012, flying between Chicago O’Hare and Boston Logan, on JetBlue flight 922, the airline stole her camera gear. There are lessons to be learned here for photographers from Ms. Dugan’s unfortunate…
I present the following cartoon sent to me by a friend with no commentary. Happy Flying! @flyingwithfish
Yesterday the United States’ 112th Congress’ 2nd Session passed S. 3542, the “No Hassle Flying Act of 2012” , which is now being sent to the White House to be signed into law by The President of the United States. Before you get excited that the U.S. Congress has done something to reduce the…
Yesterday, on the 11th of December, Delta Air Lines officially announced that it was purchasing a 49% stake in British flag carrier Virgin Atlantic, from Singapore Airlines, for US$360,000,000 and forming a trans-Atlantic joint venture. Under the terms of the deal Sir Richard Branson, the founder of Virgin, will retain his 51% majority stake in…
It isn’t often that I repost old blog posts from my archives but today it only seems fitting. On the 2nd of December 2009 my Dad turned 70 years old, and so did the very first airline lounge. This is the first time I have known my Dad’s birthday without my Dad among us, as…
For your amusement, I present to you A TSA Thanksgiving  (for my friends at the Transportation Security Administration, I am sure you’ll get a chuckle from this as well) … so, without further commentary … Happy Flying! @flyingwithfish
When an airline’s social media goes wrong it tends to go really wrong. Social media going off the rails ends up taking a tool that is ideal for damage control and turns it into an instrument of brand destruction … especially for a global airline with a highly conservative. Yesterday afternoon British Airways‘ usually…
