I recently connected with film studio Filmetria, which is based here in Seattle and fell in love with new project: Team Marco Polo. I know it is not exactly airline-related, but it does deal with travel and I think it is frek’n cool, so I am sharing it with you (and no I am not […]
Stories by David Parker Brown
Photos taken at Boeing Field of the F-22 by a friend just minutes ago. Click for larger versions. Thanks Nick! Just got word that if you want to get a first hand glimpse of a F-22 Raptor, head on down to the Museum of Flight. Plane #66 will be on display next to the museum […]
I haven’t been able to talk about body scanners for a while and it is about time I bring them up again. When I blog about them or am doing research, I constantly see the same argument, “What’s the big deal, we all have the same parts, get over it.” The thing is we are […]
The argument for “passengers of size” has been going on for quite some time now. Now Turkish Airlines is looking to add “flight attendants of size” into the mix. 28 flight attendants have been put on unpaid leave to shape up or be reassigned. Izzet Levi, head of a cabin attendants’ association, and one of […]
There are a lot of regional airlines out there. Most are independently operated and contracted out to larger carriers. In most cases, the regional carrier will wear the livery of the larger airline and flying under a capacity purchase agreement. This relationship is well known to many of us airline nerds, but most of the […]