pilots

In nearly every article you read about airlines today – be it a blogger, newspaper, social media, you name it – you’ll see headlines about the nightmare air travel has…

What were you doing when you were 15?  Maybe you had a hobby, like video games or playing on your high school’s football team. Or maybe you were taking lessons…

There are several things you may hear on, or about a flight that MAAAAAAY not be 100% the truth… “Turn off all large electronics or it may interfere with the…

Add this to the “really icky” files. A Frontier Airlines pilot was arrested late last week. He is accused of installing a hidden spy camera in the bedroom window of…

When Joe and I were en route to Iceland and took our first post-COVID flight (which, as it turned out, wasn’t really post-COVID), MCO –> JFK, we were a little…

When I wrote my post about United Airlines requiring employees to get vaccinated, I expected to get comments about how such a requirement infringed on personal freedoms. Not surprisingly, the…

There have never been very many ways to get an upgrade on a plane. Back in the “olden days,” you might be able to get upgraded if you had status.…

When retired basketball star Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna were tragically killed in a helicopter crash in early 2020, the basketball world, and its fans, reeled. Since then,…

If you’ve ever been on a plane, you’ve been through a pre-flight safety video. Or if not, then a live demonstration. If you’ve been through more than one of those…

I was doing errands around the house this weekend and flipping channels for something to watch. As is usual, unless you’re into sportsing stuff, which I’m not, the pickings were…