If you’re interested in the details, you can read the whole story but suffice it to say that when a guy mistakenly flushed his iPod down the toilet on a flight from Chicago to Ottawa, Canadian authorities went into full terror mode.  Yes, that begs more questions than it answers.
(As always, thanks to Sanj for [...]

It’s a sad state of affairs at Biman Bangladesh, the national carrier of, you guessed it, Bangladesh.  A BBC story says that the airline put a "lonely hearts" ad in the newspaper looking for a strategic partner for long walks in the woods (and to pay the bills).  Biman has 5 of its 13 ancient [...]

An Iraqi architect says that JetBlue staff forced him to change his t-shirt that read, "We will not be silent" prior to boarding his flight from JFK to California.  According to the passenger, airline crew said that people were offended (?) by the t-shirt, and that he’d have to remove it before flying.  Good thing [...]

This is just silly:  An Air Canada Jazz pilot left the cockpit to use the bathroom during a flight from Ottawa to Winnipeg, leaving the first officer and a flight attendant in the cockpit (I’m sure there was nothing going on there).  Upon his return, the door was locked and the first officer was unable [...]

A woman from New Zealand traveling to compete in the world athletic championships for the disabled got a pretty miserable surprise when she landed in Amsterdam for the event:  British Airways had lost her prosthetic leg.  As you can imagine, this is a problem if you are a one-legged runner heading to a running competition.  [...]

I’ve been rather skeptical of the notion that the alleged terrorists in the London bomb plot could’ve blown up a plane using liquids smuggled on board.  I’m not the only one.  This article looks at why you should be skeptical, too.  In short:  it would be really, really difficult to make a bomb on board.
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Delta has a great deal on travel to London:  $999 gets you a round trip ticket in business class (it’s just $199 for a ticket in coach — a great deal, but we see $199 round trips frequently during the winter).  Book by September 7th for travel November 15th through March 21.

I never bore you dear readers with personal stories, but I thought this was a good one:
My wife (heretofore known as Susan) was flying yesterday from Chicago to New York, when she arrived at the security line.  She had dutifully checked her toothpaste so that she wouldn’t try to blow up the airplane with it, [...]

A guy is taking a trip from Chicago to Turkey with his mom and when he gets to the airport, security sees a slightly suspicious object in his luggage.  They ask what the object is and the guy tells security that it’s a bomb.  It’s not a bomb, of course, it’s a penis pump (obviously).  [...]

Northwest Airlines’ flight attendants have threatened sporadic strikes across their network beginning this evening.  USA Today has put together a handy Q&A about the situation that could be helpful if you have plans to fly Northwest any time soon.  (The short version is that flight attendants may randomly delay flights and there’s nothing you can [...]