Upgraded: Weird contraband found at airports Downgraded: Pigeon welfare The NY Daily News has a set of photos of items found by customs agents at airports. Most are drug related, but my favorite has to be this image of a man with pigeons wrapped up and kept in his long underwear: “Sir, your pa...

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 Mouth of the West Checking into Ryanair Flight FR118 at Dublin to London Gatwick the other evening I noticed a familiar face in the security line in front of me at Dublin Airport. It was none other than Michael O’Leary the outspoken Chief Executive of Ryanair, widely known as “The Mouth of t...

Channel 4 News sourced an interview via Twitter today for the first time. Over the last few months the channel has increased its level of communication with users and viewers via its @channel4news Twitter account and presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy’s own, @krishgm. After setting up an interview...

We recently switched our default builds of Rails Boxcar to leverage the benefits of using Passenger (mod_rails) for deployment of your Ruby on Rails applications and it’s been working out great for our customers. Several of our customers and colleagues mentioned that they also began using Pass...

Filed under: Galley Gossip Name? Christopher Elliott Where do you live? Orlando, Florida Occupation? I'm a travel journalist. Website? Elliott.org City you spend the most time in? Orlando Okay, that makes sense. Bad question. So where do you travel to the most often? New York I love New York. Everyo...

Filed under: Airlines, Airports, News Because I live in Columbus, this story ended up on Wednesday night's local news. As I listened to the report, this is what I picked up. At 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, two guys heading for a Southwest flight at Port Columbus International Airport saw a pilot who seemed...

Filed under: Airlines, Transportation, Airports The holidays are a hard time to travel, and Lemondrop has compiled a gallery of the people who make it even harder. "The Most Annoying Airline Passengers Ever" include people who stop in the aisle while you're boarding to rearrange the bag they're stow...

Filed under: Airlines Look, I understand that the airlines are in a pretty bad shape. But United Airlines is taking things a little too far. The Chicago based airline started offering "a la carte" options to their flights last year. What started with basic upgrades to First/Business, has now morphed...

Filed under: Galley Gossip What I've learned about the world working at 35,000 feet is that you can't please everyone, no matter how hard you try. Another thing I've learned is regardless of where people come from or where they are sitting on the airplane, most of them have one thing in common - lac...