Quiet please, the pilot is sleeping
Here’s a thoughtful, educational, and alarming article about the issue of napping pilots by James Wallace at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In addition to recounting the details of the Go! airline pilots that fell asleep on their way from Honolulu to Hilo, Hawaii last February, Wallace describes a NASA study conducted to determine if intentional napping […]
Airport pickpockets
It’s easy to get distracted at the airport. But here’s a reminder from the Vancouver Sun about why it’s especially important to make sure your wallet is safely tucked away: Visitors to [Toronto’s] Pearson International Airport are being targeted by an organization of South American pickpockets, who stole as much as $500,000 last year, authorities […]
Travel tip from a wine lover
The complimentary drink choices offered to business and first class cabin passengers usually include a variety of top notch wines. Not so in coach. If you want wine, you pay for it. And the choices are never that exciting: red or white. But where there’s a will there’s a way. And a wine… as Harris […]