airline safety

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Have you seen those social media posts of passengers grabbing their carry-ons before jumping on the slide to evacuate an airplane during an emergency? That’s scary. And dangerous. As is the fact that other passengers waste precious time stopping to videotape the evacuation frenzy before getting off the plane. As it wraps up its Annual […]

We had a chance to chat about airline passenger safety briefing cards with Trisha Ferguson, CEO of The Interaction Group, for a story on The Runway Girl Network. The Olympia, Washington-based firm has been around for more than 50 years and has designed and printed inflight safety information cards for more than 600 airlines.  The […]

Flying to D.C.? Leave your firearms at home If you’re flying to any airport near Washington, D.C. in the days leading up to the inauguration, you’ll have to leave your firearms at home. Based on the events over the past few weeks in the nation’s capital, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier, Southwest, […]

Air New Zealand has a new inflight safety video out and this one you can (must?) dance to.
A recap of airline and airport-related topics discussed in Sydney, Australia at the annual general meeting of CEOs from around the world.

Have you seen those social media posts of passengers grabbing their carry-ons before jumping on the slide to evacuate an airplane during an emergency? That’s scary. And dangerous. As is the fact that other passengers waste precious time stopping to videotape the evacuation frenzy before getting off the plane. As it wraps up its Annual […]

We had a chance to chat about airline passenger safety briefing cards with Trisha Ferguson, CEO of The Interaction Group, for a story on The Runway Girl Network. The Olympia, Washington-based firm has been around for more than 50 years and has designed and printed inflight safety information cards for more than 600 airlines.  The […]

Flying to D.C.? Leave your firearms at home If you’re flying to any airport near Washington, D.C. in the days leading up to the inauguration, you’ll have to leave your firearms at home. Based on the events over the past few weeks in the nation’s capital, Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Frontier, Southwest, […]

Air New Zealand has a new inflight safety video out and this one you can (must?) dance to.
A recap of airline and airport-related topics discussed in Sydney, Australia at the annual general meeting of CEOs from around the world.
It's been a while since a fun, new airline safety video has come out, but Air New Zealand has hit the air with a safety video with a Hollywood theme. Take a look.

Here’s a great idea I came across today while walking the aisles of the exhibition hall at the Aircraft Interiors Expo Americas being held in Seattle this week. A company called Belt-Tech has developed a way of making aircraft seat belts out of a conductive yarn that incorporates Real Time Information (RTI) technology. When the […]

TSA nixes plan to allow small knives, novelty souvenir bats, hockey sticks and other previously prohibited sports item on airplanes as carry-on.
Citing security concerns, the federal government in secrecy last month ordered every airline in the United States to remove emergency oxygen from the lavatory on all 6,000 domestic commercial aircraft.