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Monday, August 22, 2016

LAX Creates ‘Celebrity Terminal’ Free of Paparazzi, Peons

By Shawn Paul Wood on Nov. 23, 2015 http://www.adweek.com/prnewser/lax-creates-celebrity-terminal-free-of-paparazzi-peons/119602

Celebrity culture is already pretty sickening.

Mindless masses fawning after their every word and movement on-air and social media. Dedicated hours of gossip for these folks. Publicists who couldn’t shine the shoes of most PR pros. The upper-crust privileges, fashionable bootlicking, and senseless hypocrisy. http://www.adweek.com/prnewser/lax-creates-celebrity-terminal-free-of-paparazzi-peons/119602

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Washington Post: "Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight" By Catherine Rampell May 7, 2016

Washington Post: "Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight" By Catherine Rampell May 7, 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2016/05/washington-post-ivy-league-economist.html

Guido Menzio, an economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

[I used to be a flight attendant. Dealing with passengers’ racism is part of the job.]

On Thursday evening, a 40-year-old man — with dark, curly hair, olive skin and an exotic foreign accent — boarded a plane. It was a regional jet making a short, uneventful hop from Philadelphia to nearby Syracuse.

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Finally the pilot came by, and approached the real culprit behind the delay: that darkly-complected foreign man. He was now escorted off the plane, too, and taken to meet some sort of agent, though he wasn’t entirely sure of the agent’s affiliation, he would later say.

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Menzio showed the authorities his calculations and was allowed to return to his seat, he told me by email. He said the pilot seemed embarrassed. Soon after, the flight finally took off, more than two hours after its scheduled departure time for what would be just a 41-minute trip in the air, according to flight-tracking data.

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Menzio for his part says he was “treated respectfully throughout,” though he remains baffled and frustrated by a “broken system that does not collect information efficiently.” He is troubled by the ignorance of his fellow passenger, as well as “A security protocol that is too rigid–in the sense that once the whistle is blown everything stops without checks–and relies on the input of people who may be completely clueless.”

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In this true parable of 2016 I see another worrisome lesson, albeit one also possibly relevant to Trump’s appeal: That in America today, the only thing more terrifying than foreigners is…math.

It is a lengthy well-written piece – Read much more here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/rampage/wp/2016/05/07/ivy-league-economist-interrogated-for-doing-math-on-american-airlines-flight/

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Friday, January 08, 2016

For anyone who has landed at Heathrow, in England; prepare to laugh… Stephen Fry welcomes you to Heathrow - #UKGuide

https://youtu.be/K7cFXSDN_5k

For anyone who has landed at Heathrow, in England; prepare to laugh… Stephen Fry welcomes you to Heathrow - #UKGuide

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Kevin Dayhoff Art: Last Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016 - I had breakfast on an airplane – flying Southwest Airlines.

http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/2016/01/last-sunday-jan-3-2016-i-had-breakfast.html?m=1

Last Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016 - I had breakfast on an airplane – flying Southwest Airlines.

I like flying Southwest; however flying sure is harder than it used to be. Southwest continues to be a bright spot in an otherwise bleak and barren customer service landscape.

Flying used to be part of the adventure. Today, flying is an endurance contest to be tolerated with gritted teeth. I wonder why it keeps getting worse instead of better?

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Friday, September 18, 2015

The Economist, “A passenger revolt against squashed legroom,”

A passenger revolt against squashed legroom http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-economist-passenger-revolt-against.html

September 18, 2015 KED

Labels: Business airports airlines flying, Business airports airlines reclining seats, Civility, This is nuts

Some of the most miserable moments of my life while traveling have been flying for hours with the seat in front of me reclined in my face, and cutting off the circulation in my legs.

Flying today is a horrific experience – one of the easiest things the airlines could do to make the consumer experience a little more tolerable is to stop putting in seats in the aircraft that recline.

I have no idea whatsoever why the airlines have not addressed the matter – unless, you are proponent of the idea that airlines simply do not care. It is a persuasive argument.

As I wrote on August 31, 2014, http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2014/08/flight-diverted-when-passengers-feud.html, “I think that people who recline their seat into the face of the person seated behind them on an airplane are narcissistic sociopaths.” [https://www.facebook.com/kevindayhoff/posts/10203430956388172]

I cannot imagine any other circumstance in which it is considered permissible in society to intrude so far into another person’s personal space and make them physically uncomfortable and not ask even as much as ask permission or express any concern for the injured party.

On August 31, 2014, I wrote about this in response to an article on NPR about one of the many planes that have had to land early as a result of disruption on the plane caused by reclining seats: Flight Diverted When Passengers Feud Over Reclining Seat : The Two-Way : NPR – the link is still good, click here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/26/343439537/flight-diverted-when-passengers-feud-over-reclining-seat?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140831&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews#sthash.lYKx50Ec.dpuf

“Flying is already a pain. But a story from the Associated Press Tuesday really brings home the point: The wire service reports that an entire plane was diverted on Sunday after a fight broke out over a passenger's right to recline her seat…”

The latest article about the problem comes from The Economist, “A passenger revolt against squashed legroom,” Sep 11th 2015, 10:25 BY A.W. | WASHINGTON, DC

http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2015/09/airline-seats-1?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/airlineseats

“Of the litany of annoyances pestering air travellers these days—the invasive security protocols, the baggage fees, the cancellations and delays—perhaps none ranks higher than the Incredible Shrinking Airplane Seat. Legroom seems to vanish with each passing flight. The marginally roomier exit-row seats now cost extra; so do the seats where spaciousness was until recently considered normal but now earns the label “premium economy.”

“Aeroplane designers recently took their efforts to pack passengers in like sardines to a whole new level, with a proposal to squeeze in more seats by facing half of them backwards.

“It’s enough to make you—well, sign a petition. As of September 9th, more than 31,000 people had done so…” Read much more here: http://www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2015/09/airline-seats-1?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/airlineseats

I wrote on August 31, 2014, As if flying is not already unpleasant enough.... At 6' 3" I am constantly fighting this battle - the battle over the person in front of me on a plane reclining their seat into my knees and my face so that I cannot use the work tray, 'enjoy' my seat - or breathe...

In the past, after observing my plight, the flight attendant, without me asking, has required the person in front of me to put their seat in the upright position.

I too, have very-very politely asked the person on front of me to put their seat in the upright position and had that person absolutely refuse. At that point I usually "Zen it." politely and quietly.

I think that people who recline their seat into the face of the person seated behind them on an airplane are narcissistic sociopaths. Usually when it happens to me, I realize that I have been just given a signal that the person in front of me is aggressively rude and impolite and that I should be frightened of them. All I want to do is get to my destination. I usually simply avoid any interaction with them - at all costs.

Ultimately I agree with the commenters on the article that believe that it is the fault of the airlines. I am surprised that the planes are still built with reclining seats.

Reclining seats have caused so many problems on these planes that inhumanely pack people into impossible seating arrangements that I have no idea why reclining seat have not been banned...

All that said, I usually just grin and bear it when faced with such incivility.

Nowadays, I understand that flying is very unpleasant and I work hard to make the best of it. I just wanna get home - and not make an already very bad situation worse... http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2014/08/flight-diverted-when-passengers-feud.html

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Monday, January 26, 2015

Wi-Fi Report Card: Which Airlines Keep You Connected the Best?

Wi-Fi Report Card: Which Airlines Keep You Connected the Best?:

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/wi-fi-report-card-how-well-are-the-airlines-109206613732.html

Sid Lipsey January 26, 2015

"For Internet-addicted business travelers, an in-flight announcement that “Wi-Fi is down at the moment” is enough to induce the shakes. And getting booked on a flight that doesn’t offer Wi-Fi at all is enough to send them into fits of rage.

Fortunately, a new study finds plugged-in road warriors had less reason to panic over their in-flight connectivity last year. And 2015 looks even better." https://www.yahoo.com/travel/wi-fi-report-card-how-well-are-the-airlines-109206613732.html

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Sunday, August 31, 2014

Flight Diverted When Passengers Feud Over Reclining Seat : The Two-Way : NPR

Flight Diverted When Passengers Feud Over Reclining Seat : The Two-Way : NPR:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/08/26/343439537/flight-diverted-when-passengers-feud-over-reclining-seat?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20140831&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews

"Flying is already a pain. But a story from the Associated Press Tuesday really brings home the point: The wire service reports that an entire plane was diverted on Sunday after a fight broke out over a passenger's right to recline her seat.

[...]

For the record, the maker of the device tells USA Today this is the first time it has heard of anything like this happening with its product."

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See also: "United flight diverts over 'Knee Defender' fight" http://www.usatoday.com/story/todayinthesky/2014/08/26/knee-defender-fight-united-flight-diverted/14609109/

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As if flying is not already unpleasant enough.... At 6' 3" I am constantly fighting this battle - the battle over the person in front of me on a plane reclining their seat into my knees and my face so that I cannot use the work tray, 'enjoy' my seat - or breathe...

In the past, after observing my plight, the flight attendant, without me asking, has required the person in front of me to put their seat in the upright position.

I too, have very-very politely asked the person on front of me to put their seat in the upright position and had that person absolutely refuse. At that point I usually "Zen it." politely and quietly.

I think that people who recline their seat into the face of the person seated behind them on a airplane are narcissistic sociopaths. Usually when it happens to me, I realize that I have been just given a signal that the person in front of me is aggressively rude and impolite and that I should be frightened of them. All I want to do is get to my destination. I usually simply avoid any interaction with them - at all costs.

Ultimately I agree with the commenters on the article that believe that it is the fault of the airlines. I am surprised that the planes are still built with reclining seats. Reclining seats have caused so many problems on these planes that inhumanely pack people into impossible seating arrangements that I have no idea why reclining seat have not been banned...

All that said, I usually just grin and bear it when faced with such incivility. Nowadays, I understand that flying is very unpleasant and I work hard to make the best of it. I just wanna get home - and not make an already very bad situation worse...

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http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2014/08/flight-diverted-when-passengers-feud.html
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Saturday, March 15, 2014

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysian official says missing plane hijacked | World | ADN.com

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysian official says missing plane hijacked | World | ADN.com:

Malaysian official says missing plane hijacked BY EILEEN NG AND JOAN LOWY The Associated PressMarch 13, 2014

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/03/13/3373862/vietnam-downgrades-search-for.html#emlnl=Breaking_News

"KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA — A Malaysian investigation into the missing flight 370 has concluded that one or more people with flying experience switched off communications devices and deliberately steered the airliner off-course, a Malaysian government official involved in the investigation said Saturday. The official called the disappearance a hijacking, though he said no motive has been established and no demands have been made known. It's not yet clear where the plane ended up, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief the media." Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2014/03/13/3373862/vietnam-downgrades-search-for.html#emlnl=Breaking_News

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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

JetBlue captain subdued after erratic behavior | Digg Topnews

JetBlue captain subdued after erratic behavior | Digg Topnews:

Updated 7:15 p.m. ET http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/jetblue_captain_subdued_after_erratic_behavior

(AP/CBS) LAS VEGAS — Passengers onboard a JetBlue flight bound for Las Vegas on Tuesday tackled and restrained the plane's captain after he was locked out of the cockpit by crew members, screamed 'they're going to take us down' and ranted about al Qaeda and a possible bomb onboard, passengers said.

The captain of JetBlue Airways Flight 191 from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport had a "medical situation" and the co-pilot diverted the plane to land in Amarillo, Texas, around 10 a.m., the airline said. A U.S. official confirmed to CBS News that the captain in question was Clayton Osbon, a veteran pilot with JetBlue.

Passengers said the captain stormed out of the cockpit and started acting erratically and seemed disoriented. Tony Antolino, a 40-year-old executive for a security firm, said the captain walked to the back of the plane after crew members tried to calm him down. He then began yelling about an unspecified threat linked to Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan... http://digg.com/newsbar/topnews/jetblue_captain_subdued_after_erratic_behavior

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Friday, March 16, 2012

How Not to Attract Tourists - New York Times OP-ED

How Not to Attract Tourists

By MARK VANHOENACKER March 15, 2012 New York Times OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/the-unwelcome-mat.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212_20120316

Finally, when travelers actually disembark, they are too often subjected to inaccurate lessons in American manners and common sense. Americans may be surprised by the conclusions of a 2006 survey by the U.S. Travel Association, which found that foreign travelers were more afraid of United States immigration officials than of terrorism or crime. They rated America’s borders by far the least welcoming in the world. Two-thirds feared being detained for “minor mistakes or misstatements.”… http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/the-unwelcome-mat.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212_20120316

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AS Americans, we like to imagine our country as we think of ourselves: open-hearted and welcoming; efficient and practical; easygoing, above all. These values are the foundation of our culture, of an open economy fueled by ideas and immigration, and of our soft power — America’s ability to change the world simply because it is admired.

Whatever foreigners think of the American experiment, though, it’s unlikely the experience of crossing our border has made them think better of it.

Imagine that you’re the citizen of a prosperous, democratic ally like Britain, Spain or Japan, and you’d like to visit America. Before traveling, you must pay $14 to complete an online United States government form called ESTA, short for Electronic System for Travel Authorization.

ESTA asks for basic personal data, like your name and birth date. It also asks whether you are guilty of “moral turpitude,” whether you’re planning crimes or “immoral activities” and whether you suffer from “lymphogranuloma venereum” (don’t ask). If you’re involved in terrorism or genocide — and for some reason you’ve decided to take this opportunity to inform the United States government — there’s a box for that. And if you’re a spy — a particularly artless one — please let us know.

Naturally, no one with anything to hide will answer honestly. Such purposeless questions recall Thoreau — “I saw that the State was half-witted” — and should astonish Americans, who know better than their government how to welcome guests.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/opinion/the-unwelcome-mat.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha212_20120316

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Thursday, March 01, 2012

Dinner on an airplane

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

MeMo A cultural blog with Kyrie O'Connor: America declines and takes me with it, Part the 567th | MeMo | a Chron.com blog

America declines and takes me with it, Part the 567th | MeMo | a Chron.com blog

http://blog.chron.com/memo/2011/12/america-declines-and-takes-me-with-it-part-the-567th/

I don’t have madcap, hilarious scrapes the way The Bloggess does. I wish i did.

Instead, I have days like Friday.

The day began in Lexington, Ky., a perfectly lovely part of the planet. (Nothing I say here is a slur against Kentucky, because I don’t think airports reflect the community unless your community happens to be Hell.) My pals Carl and Charlie and I left for the airport at 7. At the airport, I slogged through security, bought a racehorse snowglobe as a souvenir and made my way to the gate. Plenty of time!

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Finally I made it to security where the thing I thought might happen happened. The TSA confiscated my snowglobe.

“Really?” I said. “I bought it at the Lexington airport. I didn’t expect to be here. I’m just going to walk down that hall and buy another. Exactly how are you making the world safer by taking my snowglobe?” And, dear reader, that is when I — not a crier — began to cry.

They took my snowglobe. “Maybe this is the low point of your day and everything gets better from here,” said the chirpy TSA woman. I hate chirpy. (Also, who actually wants to be the low point in somebody’s day?) ... http://blog.chron.com/memo/2011/12/america-declines-and-takes-me-with-it-part-the-567th/

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Christopher Elliott: TSA Watch special report: The TSA is like getting a Christmas card from Al-Qaeda, confiscated snowglobes and other epic sagas from the world of traveling in America

Christopher Elliott: TSA Watch special report: The TSA is like getting a Christmas card from Al-Qaeda, confiscated snowglobes and other epic sagas of security-theater from the world of traveling in America

http://www.elliott.org/blog/tsa-watch-special-report-a-christmas-card-from-al-qaeda/

Whatever the reason, we now have the latest TSA scandal: Rebecca Hains, a Peabody, Mass., college professor, says a single cupcake was confiscated by TSA agents in Las Vegas last week...

The TSA later backtracked and said pies were OK.

Snowglobes are not, however. Why? I haven’t heard a reasonable explanation yet. But here’s what happened when agents told blogger and Houston Chronicle features editor Kyrie O’Connor she couldn’t take hers on the plane earlier this month: http://blog.chron.com/memo/2011/12/america-declines-and-takes-me-with-it-part-the-567th/:

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

Labels: Annual Christmas, Business airports airlines flying, This is nuts, Transportation Security Admin,Travel, US Govt TSA qv Transpo

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2011/12/christopher-elliott-tsa-watch-special.html Christopher Elliott: TSA Watch special report: The TSA is like getting a Christmas card from Al-Qaeda, confiscated snowglobes and other epic sagas from the world of traveling in America...

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What's the "point"?

This is the time of year for the legendary "mileage runs" -- the fabled flights to nowhere that elite-level frequent fliers take in order to retain their status. But in my latest National Geographic Traveler column, I wonder if the game is worth playing at all.

I devote an entire chapter in my book, Scammed: How to Save Your Money and Find Better Service in a World of Schemes, Swindles, and Shady Deals, to loyalty programs. If you want to read more about the hazards of point collecting, you absolutely have to pick up your very own copy.

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Friday, June 10, 2011

New York Times: Delta Apologizes for Charging Returning Troops $2,800 Baggage Fee

June 8, 2011, 1:34 PM

Delta Apologizes for Charging Returning Troops $2,800 Baggage Fee

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/delta-apologies-for-charging-returning-troops-2800-baggage-fee/

By ROGENE FISHER JACQUETTE

Delta Airlines is apologizing to a unit of soldiers returning from Afghanistan for charging them more than $2,800 in checked bag fees on their flight from Baltimore to Atlanta on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, after news of the charges rocketed around the Internet and generated widespread criticism of Delta, the company announced on its blog that it was immediately changing its policy for active duty military personnel traveling on orders to allow them to check up to five bags in first and business class. However, the policy did not seem to be changed for military personnel flying coach class, who are allowed to check up to three bags for free... http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/08/delta-apologies-for-charging-returning-troops-2800-baggage-fee/

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