Flying Lessons

Full disclosure: The Crash Detectives , my own book on the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370, will be published by Penguin in ...

Consider this quote from Irish aviation executive Willie Walsh talking about the boss of a competing airline, Virgin's Richard Branso...

Warning to readers:  Photos of toilets appear in this post. Travelers at the airport hail from many countries and speak many langua...

Harrison Ford and cast Disney handout photo  Star Wars dominated the end-of-the-year entertainment news. Harrison Ford, the ageless supe...

One of my Facebook messages today Not long after my eyes opened this morning I enjoyed reading some of the early birthday greetings pos...

US Carrier profitability takes off It will be a merry end of the year for North American airlines which will earn nearly $20 billion in...

Tyler addresses the executives Photo by IATA Writing from Miami - It seems strange to me that under the guidance of the soft spoken an...

Writing from Miami -- If you want to see the down-to-earth impact of world events there's no better place to be than Miami this week ...

I made the one hour drive on the beautiful back roads of New England, rounding the curves and ascending the hills. Distracted by spring i...

Two U.S. airlines made headlines on Wednesday; Dallas based-Southwest Airlines generated ink when it reported to the Federal Aviation Adm...

Airlines got a $373 million dollar gift from the government when it eliminated the Aviation Security Infrastructure Fee last year. What w...

Hawaiian Airlines at New York For every up there's a down, and no industry knows that better than the airlines. No, I'm not...

Bookending the aviation news for the year 2014 is the Dreamliner battery; the sizzling lithium ion-flavored power source that  I suggested...

Now. While we are celebrating the Wright Brothers historic flight 111 years ago, let me tell you the story of two other brothers; pilots a...

This post has been updated to include comment from the U.S. FDA and from Patrick Murphy of laserpointersafety.com.   One of the largest ...

Masnoor in his studio in April 2014 One night in Spain, I took a walk down to the edge of the Mediterranean where a brilliant white ...

Flight attendant Kama Iona, on an Ohana by Hawaiian flight When I peeled back the foil on my in flight meal somewhere over the Pacific b...

In a startling change of plans, Delta Air Lines today confirmed that it will retire four of its Boeing 747 s beginning in September. Empl...

The first time I flew in an airplane, I was six. It was an Eastern Airlines flight from Miami to Newark, probably in a DC-8 , but I can...

Twice in the past, the pilots of JetBlue have turned down proposals to unionize.  That changed today when seventy-one percent of those vo...