Airline Pilot Central - HOME. The Cranky Flier - Ask the Pilot. Galley Gossip — Gadling. Galley Gossip: Taking Care Of Other People's Kids In Flight by Heather Poole (RSS feed) (7 months ago) Long ago I was on a flight from Chicago to Boston via New York when a weary woman with an active baby sat next to me.
Having much experience babysitting, I was used to babies and thought I might be called upon to smile, wave and cheer up a crying baby, but never did I think... Galley Gossip: 9 Safety Tips For New Flight Attendants (And Solo Travelers) by Heather Poole (RSS feed) (10 months ago) 1. Galley Gossip: 10 Ways To Handle A Tight Connection by Heather Poole (RSS feed) (11 months ago) 1. Galley Gossip: The Worst, Funniest And Most Common Bad Passengers I've Encountered by Heather Poole (RSS feed) (1 year ago) From time to time I get asked questions about bad passengers.
Galley Gossip: Can Passengers View Pornography on the Airplane? The 10 Best Travel Apps For Flight Attendants 1. Galley Gossip: Interview With A Saudi Airline Flight Attendant Where are you from, Ahmed? 1. Today in Travel Homepage. Vulnerability is part of travel. Exploring new places means pushing personal boundaries, and the most successful travelers balance that spirit of adventure with a sense of personal safety.
Part of staying safe is paying attention to your surroundings and the people around you, but it also has to do with you—how you carry yourself, speak, and, if the situation requires it, fight back. For expert advice about self-defense while traveling, I teamed up with IMPACT Bay Area, an organization that teaches personal safety and self-defense skills. IMPACT is known for its padded mock-assailant instructors, an unusual feature that allows students to learn to fight through the "freeze response" that often happens in an attack and to experience what it feels like to fight full-force.
IMPACT has been training people of all ages, body types, and fitness levels to defend themselves for nearly three decades. ... The Middle Seat Terminal. Associated Press A crew works to de-ice planes at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago on Sunday. Stranded by the snow, ice and cold that have whacked airports in the Midwest and Northeast, and your airline says it will be days before you get home? Get creative with your rebooking. Instead of waiting to fly to New York, for example, reroute to Washington, D.C., Baltimore or even Philadelphia if you can, and then ride Amtrak to New York. There just aren’t many good options for holiday vacationers trying to get back to New York, Boston and Chicago because of the severe weather.
Between Thursday and Monday morning, airlines have canceled more than 16,000 flights, or about 17% of flight schedules, according to flight-tracking service FlightStats, leaving hundreds of thousands of people stuck, some for multiple days. Chicago has been hardest hit on Monday, but airports in the Northeast saw cancellations by the dozens Monday morning as well.