by smith | Jul 30, 2008
I’ve never been one who enjoys taking packaged tours. It keeps you confined and in your comfort element and you end up spending time with other Westerners. Since it’s been a few years since my last real “adventure”, I started to plan a trip...
by smith | Jul 25, 2008
According to CNN, while en route between Hong Kong and Melbourne, Australia, earlier today, a Qantas B747-400 was forced to make an emergency landing in Manila after a large hole appeared in the fuselage and the cabin depressurized. Fortunately, there were no injuries...
by smith | Jul 10, 2008
No wonder airline employees are so crabby. They’re afraid of the bump. I’m not talking about the dance made famous by the George Clinton and Parliament’s song Tear the Roof off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk). No, this bump hurts, because it bumps you...
by smith | Jul 9, 2008
Can an airline refuse to transport a dying passenger? That wasn’t just an academic question for Allegiant Air, which recently had to make a decision for a customer who wanted to fly from Bangor, Maine, to Orlando. Terminal cancer patient Dennis Hill had been in...
by smith | Jul 8, 2008
Here’s a “transformation” no one saw coming. US Airways, the beleaguered airline undergoing a painful transformation that it hopes will return it to profitability, has decided to end in-flight entertainment on some aircraft. Word among US Airways...
