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08 SEP 2011: Starting today regular airline flights will take passengers between Tampa and Havana for the first time in fifty years. Tampa International Airport is now one of just a handful of US airports authorized to fly to Cuba. But not everyone gets to go.
08 SEP 2011: If I were to take stock of all the things about which I have made “less than positive” observations in recent years, I would be prepared to bet your house that the commercial airport experience and the TSA would loom large.
07 SEP 2011: In the interminable ‘mine is bigger than yours’ game being played out in Washington, President Obama is urging the US Congress to avoid another partial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) shutdown by passing a long-term funding authorization bill.
07 SEP 2011: A Southwest flight originating in Phoenix had police waiting when it landed in El Paso Monday night, after a passenger refused to turn off his cell phone when ordered to do so by flight attendants.
07 SEP 2011: Most Canadians have a double standard when it comes to the environment, being less eco-friendly when they're travelling than at home. According to a poll, 83 per cent of Canadians have never taken an eco-friendly vacation - although – about 60 per cent would consider one if the price was the same as a regular holiday.
07 SEP 2011: Boeings’ 787 Dreamliner may be the most unfortunately named plane in the history of aviation. High hopes for its radical technology and a perceived-to-be-brilliant (at the time) outsourced system of manufacture has turned the Boeing 787 from dream to nightmare.
07 SEP 2011: An official at Spain's Alhambra palace says a Jordanian tourist was caught carving his initials with a coin into a wall of the complex that is considered a gem of Moorish architecture.
07 SEP 2011: You live a busy packed life, so do your clients. In the good old days, women had coffee with their friends, met in a restaurant for a glass or two of wine, chatted on the phone and lived fairly close. Those days seem long ago and far away.
02 SEP 2011: The Tenth Anniversary Report Card was released this week. The Status of 9-11 Commission Recommendations, says that despite a vast government bureaucracy and hundreds of billions of dollars, a decade after the September 11 attacks, the US government gets dubious marks when it comes to safety from terrorists.
02 SEP 2011: Being a flight attendant often sounds glamorous – but cabin crews have huge amounts of responsibility and the not simple task of dealing with agitated and frequently unreasonable travellers whose requests, perhaps more accurately - demands – too frequently border on the bizarre.
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