November 9, 2018: A JAL co-pilot was arrested by British Police at Heathrow Airport before departure of his flight to Tokyo — seems he was found to have more than TEN TIMES (10x) the legal limit of alcohol — a tram bus driver noticed the boozy smell when he was driving the flight crew to board to plane. That’s really over doing “just one more” drink before hitting the road — or runway!!!
November 8, 2018: An American Airlines baggage handler, loading bags into a 737 jet leaving Kansas City, took a boozy break and nap inside the jets cargo hold — when he woke up he was in Chicago. Good thing the jets cargo hold area is heated and pressurized or the landing outcome might have been different! Wonder how often that happens?
November 7, 2018: Delta is going to add an exterior bathroom window into their new Airbus jets — not sure why — maybe to make even smaller inflight bathrooms look smaller? No peeking please!
November 6, 2018: Yup — California Pacific Airlines recently took flight from their new “hub” in greater Carlsbad — with small jet service to San Jose and Reno — pending service to include Vegas and Phoenix-Mesa Airport. The airline is run and funded by a local 97-year-old golf course and resort developer — not sure why anyone these days might think the airline business could be easy, fun and profitable?
November 5, 2018: Well, thats what they say anyway! Airports seem to now be concerned with offering cleaner bathrooms and are using electronic means to monitor cleanliness — seven airports around the country, including LAX on the west coast, are using something called “Trax” to monitor restroom customer traffic and alert maintenance when a clean up is needed — usually after 300 people have “done their business.” According to Trax, the dirtiest bathrooms in airports are those nearest departure and arrival gates. Next airport challenge may be “where to find public water fountains?”
November 2, 2018: New York is the top booked city to visit during the holidays, followed by Italy, Mexico City and Kenya (really?). In the US alone, travelers book nearly 18 million tickets a day during the holiday season for travel during the season and into the following year!
November 1, 2018: Trying to “game” the holiday ticket buying travel season can be a full time challenge. The average Thanksgiving flight will change prices over 100 times between now and the holiday. Save money and fly on Thanksgiving Day if you can, and Friday, December 21, the most expensive day to fly for Christmas. The only “secret” here is too keep checking — especially late at night and after midnight!
October 31, 2018: Yup — the airline plans to launch what it calls the nations first “biometric terminal” at their Atlanta hub and use facial recognition in their international terminal at security, check in, boarding and customs. Right now the Delta program is in the “test” stage as it has a tendency to make mistakes and deny boarding or mistake ids with those on TSA’s no fly list — sounds like they need some fine tuning?
October 30, 2018: This time it’s Cathay Pacific who says hackers got into their passenger data base earlier this year and “took off” with over 9.4 million customer travel records, including passport ID. Earlier in the year, both British Air and Delta had similar data breaches, and thats just the ones we know about. All airlines need to pay more attention and find a way to tighten customer information security. The skies aren’t so friendly for travelers these days!
October 29, 2018: Where else but New York? In Manhattan, only open on weekends — the indoor canine play area welcomes kids too, to frolic in various play areas with each other in open space gated areas as well as a pool shaped container full of balls. Dogs are required to be “acceptable” … not sure about the kids?
