For those that have trouble fitting into a standard passenger seat, they will have to prepare to pay double on United Airlines. They have pretty black and white criteria for those to meet this requirement: – Unable to fit into a single seat in the ticketed cabin – Unable to properly buckle the seatbelt using […]
Stories by David Parker Brown
What do you want on every AirTran flight you are on? That is a question that — surprise, surprise — AirTran is asking people. They have created a nifty site EveryFlight.com and allows you to give not only suggestions, but also rate those suggestions. Some of my personal favorites that answer the question “I want […]
Pet Airways is a new airline…but just for pets (or for “pawsengers” as they call them). The new airline is offerring pet service to five cities around the US: New York, Baltimore, Denver, Chicago, and LA. Pets on this airline will be up in the nicely climate-controlled cabins of a Beechcraft 1900 and not in […]
An 8 hour stand off with police and a hijacker is now over. A 20 year old Jamaican took over the CanJet plane after using force to get past security. He released all the passengers and two crew members, but held another six hostage. It appears the young man had some mental issues (obviously) and […]
As airlines cut flights, that means they don’t have the need for as many planes. Some of those planes are still very airworthy and it is not time for them to be destroyed. A large number of these planes end up in one of a few desert holding yards (not graveyards, since some of them […]