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Is Courtesy Contagious?

09/18/08
My Well Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com this week is all about courtesy – and the efforts to encourage it – on buses, subways, and trains. Many of the strategies public transit agencies are trying out could help air travelers get along with each other inside airports and on airplanes as well. For example, wouldn’t […]

Power up at Newark-Liberty International Airport (EWR)

08/25/08
Goods news for gadget-toting travelers: There are now 50 free 4-outlet charging stations scattered through Terminals A, B, and C at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR). The charging stations are courtesy of Samsung Mobile, which sponsors similar power charging stations at five other major airports (so far): John F. Kennedy International Airport (54), Los Angeles […]

Cell phones on airplanes? Looking less likely.

08/01/08
When will we be able to make and receive calls on our cell phones on an airplane flying over the United States? Maybe never. A while back, several members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee introduced the Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (HANG UP) Act. The goal: to make sure cell phone […]

Call me; I’ll be on the plane

07/02/08
For a few months now, Air France has been testing in-flight data and cell-phone service on one of its planes. (I flew on one of the cell-phones-allowed flights and wrote about it in my Well-Mannered Traveler column on MSNBC.com.) Now comes word that passengers on at least one TAP Portugal plane can send and receive […]

Stuck at the airport? My tips in the Hartford Courant

06/29/08
Had a nice talk with Jesse Leavenworth, a reporter from the The Hartford Courant, a while back about my favorite topic – airports with great amenities – and see that his article has hit the paper. I chatted with Leavenworth about some of my favorite airports to spend time in – including San Francisco International […]

Flying this summer? Take notes.

06/22/08
Now that summer travel is in full swing, I bet Gregg Rottler will be getting lots of e-mail. Rottler gathers tales of air travel woe and posts them, neatly and without editorial comment, on his Web site: Flights from Hell.com. He does it partly to give frustrated travelers someplace to share some truly outrageous stories, […]

Votes on in-flight cell-phone service

05/26/08
More than 2800 people have voted, so far, in the survey about in-flight cell-phone service that accompanies one of my recent Well-Mannered Traveler columns on MSNBC. The results? 64% say “In-flight text and e-mail service is great, but please no phone calls!” So I’m not that surprised at the results of a recent Harris survey […]

Cell-phones on airplanes. Good or bad? Vote!

05/08/08
What does a World Bank economist flying to Morocco have in common with a young couple jetting home to Switzerland from Paris? A fear of seat mates with cell-phones. Air France is testing cell-phone service on one of its airplanes. I had a chance to fly on that plane last week and interviewed passengers about […]
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