Another special plane
walterh Forgot to post this last Thursday. President Obama landed in Grand Rapids about an hour before I took off. Curiously enough, security wasn’t bad. You can’t make it out much,…
SAFER?
Senator Bennet (R-UT) introduced something called SAFER AIR Act, which mandates full body scanners in every US airport by 2013. Fully body RADIATION scanners. These things are NOT safe. One…
A whole new way to lose your luggage
Okay, so there have been some bonehead business ideas. The Microsoft “Kin” phone, which was supposed to be an iPhone killer, but lasted all of about 4 weeks. When Dell…
Almost nose to nose
Almost nose to nose here at the N terminal at SeaTac. What a big, beautiful girl, despite the livery.
BLAH! I say to ground based internet service!
Okay, so we’re going SEA -> ORD. That route TYPICALLY takes us over the United States. I mean it’s not like we’re detouring over the Yukon Territories or anything. So…
Tarmacs
I love taking smaller regional carrier for one reason – the ability to take pictures of aircraft from the tarmac!
Beating a dead horse
In between my real job, I was catching up on headlines for the airlines today. There’s a new one out there on Alaska Airlines, talking about capacity, outlook, etc. Something…
Oh TSA, how I hate thee
BLAH! So I’ve talked about the TSA quite a bit, and what a joke I think they are. After all, what about all of the stuff they COULD stop but…
Okay, this is weird
Have you seen the new Bud Light beer commercial with the airplane crash survivors? You can find it on Youtube if you want to watch it. Anyway, we were watching…
So I got laughed at last night…
Really. And I thought I was being reasonable! We went out to dinner last night, and ran in to a friend of ours that is a flight attendant. He knows…