by Charlie Leocha | Jul 17, 2026
Uncle Sam wants you to dress better and improve flying behavior. Is there a connection? The Department of Transportation (DOT) started a campaign regarding “The Golden Age of Travel Starts with You.” This DOT effort aims to encourage passengers to dress...
by Charlie Leocha | Jul 16, 2026
Near monopolies make airlines anathema to good customer service. An old issue of The Atlantic started with these paragraphs. It dealt with customer service. That’s more than five years ago. A security guard stops a customer as she tries to enter a well-stocked...
by Charlie Leocha | Jul 10, 2026
Do we need new rules for delayed and canceled flights? Will an EU system help in the US? I just returned from a trip to Spain. It seemed to me and my friends that the aviation system in Europe had avoided the horrible delayed and canceled flight experiences of the US....
by Charlie Leocha | Jul 7, 2026
Pamplona never sleeps during Fiesta Today was the first of eight runnings of bulls in Pamplona. The Fiesta of San Fermin in Pamplona, known as the Running of the Bulls in the US, is a nonstop, 24-hour party. From July 6 to July 14, there is always dancing in the...
by Charlie Leocha | Jul 3, 2026
Two years ago, the Transportation Sec. asked for funding to study the use of female crash dummies in car crash testing. Today we have one dummy. An extensive study by Consumer Reports concluded that crash testing is biased. The National Highway and Transportation...
