Archive for the ‘Airline Industry and Travel’ Category

May 15th, 2011

Why I’m not flying Virgin Anything ever again.

April 4th, 2011

Has there ever been a better way to avoid work that reciting this bromide? It sounds like real common-sense homey wisdom, comes trippingly off the tongue, and raises the fear of all the things that could go wrong if we go turning over rocks and stirring things up. Look how well it’s working for Southwest [...]

November 24th, 2010

My brother-in-law, whose work takes him to many small towns, pointed out to me yesterday that the current concerns about backscatter scanner machines at airports will only get worse when the technology arrives in small towns (which it must, else airline security will be a joke because bomb-carrying terrorists will just board in Podunk instead [...]

November 16th, 2010

Having flown 30,000 miles in the past 3 weeks, I am convinced of three things: (1) Flying 30,000 miles in 3 weeks is a profoundly stupid thing to do. (2) If you are that stupid and you suffer from chronic acid reflux, there is no better investment of your miles than an upgrade to the [...]

October 6th, 2010

Our government is warning us that something bad may or may not happen in a small backwater known as “Europe” and therefore we should “be vigilant”. I understand the value of letting public safety personnel know about elevated terrorism risk, and I know some of this is just CYA behavior in case something bad does [...]

August 24th, 2010

I try to fly only on a single airline so as to be treated less like an anonymous bovine by a company that somewhat values my business. But I got stuck the other day flying an airline on which I have no elite status, and thereby discovered that some airlines no longer allow free “same [...]

August 24th, 2010

On my current trip to South Dakota, I felt thirsty as I waited for my plane. I walked to one end of the terminal and did not see a water fountain. I walked to the other end and did not see one either. I was sure I had missed it, so I repeated a loop [...]

August 10th, 2010

Particularly in a recession, many Americans in the service industry are going to sympathize with Steve Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who fled his airplane after being struck and treated like garbage by a passenger. My heart goes out to him, but my head says that no matter what punishment he receives or what help [...]


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