Filed under: Galley Gossip "Did you see 11J?" asked Shirley as she walked into the galley in coach and chucked a wadded up bag of fast food into the trash. We were in the process of boarding and I had my eyes on the bins and bags, not 11J, and as usual the bins were filling up fast. "No, why?" I sai...

The other day I posted a missive that was a little ill-conceived at my other blog. I was too frustrated to frame this argument better. Here’s another try. Awhile back, discouraged with my inability to squeeze dollars from nickels, I decided that I should just educate myself on the basics of mo...

There's no reason not to. The consequences are minor. They can cause people to die and it will cost them less than a new Porsche. A Hattiesburg-based company whose three workers died in a trench collapse March 21 has agreed to pay the federal government $39,500 in penalties for...

Filed under: Business, Airlines, News With the economy down and whatnot, it's not hard to fathom that airlines like OpenSkies and even the Virgin Atlantic and BA business products might be suffering. And what do you do when demand drops? Inspire with a fare sale. Just this past week, OpenSkies annou...

Filed under: Business, Airlines, News Ryanair has been flirting around with the idea of starting a new transatlantic airline ever since the Open Skies Agreement took effect earlier this year. They have yet to make an official announcement or reveal any details, but that isn't preventing them from st...

Filed under: Business, Photos, United States, Airlines, Airports, Galley Gossip "Want to go to Italy?" The husband asked. "Umm...I don't know...Yes. As in YES YES YES!" I exclaimed. And then I added, "But I'm not flying standby." Because I wasn't. And I was ready to stand my ground. "Yeah, well me n...

Filed under: Blogs, Airlines One of our favorite airline columnists over at MSNBC.com and from Elliott.org published an interesting article today on the separation between coach and first class called "Frequent Criers: Elite Fliers are Ruining Air Travel". In it, he points to the increasingly childl...

Filed under: Airlines, News As expected, Silverjet ceased all operations on Friday, marooning more believers in the "business-class-only" model and completing the hat trick of airlines in that niche to go bankrupt in the last six months. At root of the issue are the same old villains, high oil price...

In 1993 employees of US Sugar voluntarily swapped their pension plans for company stock options. I could have told them it was a mistake. Thousands of workers at U.S. Sugar thought they were getting a good deal when the company shelved their pension plan and gave them stock for their retirement inst...

A couple of years ago I wrote a couple of posts at Matewan about the suit against FedEx by truck drivers who had been labeled "independent contractors" rather than employees. Those posts are no longer available but, as the NYT reports today, the suit is still alive and kicking. For those o...