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Sex toys on airplanes: How to get off past TSA

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Ever thought about taking your sex toys with you on an airplane? The San Francisco Chronicle put together this excellent guide about handling sex toys and air travel and luggage. Here’s a sample:
If you’re one of the 500,000 (half a million!) people traveling to San Francisco for this year’s Pride Parade, before you [...]

Cool! A set of airline sticker photos on flickr

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Someone put together this nifty collection of photos of airline stickers — most from a long time ago. Here are the thumbnails, you can see the rest of the airline sticker photos here.

Southwest Airlines Rapping Flight Attendant video

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

“I need a little audience participation, otherwise this is not going over well.” The Southwest Airlines Rapping Flight Attendant video:

World-wide air traffic simulation: 24 hours of flight

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

This video’s a simulation of world-wide air traffic patterns over 24 hours:

(via MapRoom)

The opposite of the Mile High Club

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

On the news radar this week came this article about a pilot and a flight attendant, arrested naked in the woods, where they had gone to go do it. This highlights the important issue of the difficulty airline pilots have joining the mile high club … well, no it doesn’t. It’s just a silly article. [...]

People are dumb

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Here’s a tale from a ticket-sales agent at an unnamed airline:

I’ve made it through all the calls from adults who didn’t know the difference between a.m. and p.m., from mothers of military recruits who didn’t trust their little soldiers to get it right, from the woman who called to get advice on how to handle [...]

One way to tell if the flight attendants thought you were annoying

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

I saw David Sedaris last night, and he gave this nugget he got from flight attendants. At the end of flight the attendants come through to pick up garbage. When a flight / plane has been particularly rude / annoying / obnoxious, instead of saying “trash please,” some attendants will say “you’re trash.” Which sounds [...]

Crazy / cool airplane photos

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Airline Travel Myths: Being on time, being glamorous, more…

Saturday, June 30th, 2007

NPR breaks down a bunch of modern air travel myths. Seems that today’s airplane passenger has a few too many rusty ideas about the way things oughta work. These are a few of my favorites:

Nothing is more thrilling and glamorous than modern jet flight.
When you purchase a ticket, you expect to travel to the city [...]

Viagra helps with jet lag, “could be important for airline crews”.

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

UK’s Daily Mirror reports today that sex drug Viagra could help travelers recover from jet lag. This works on west-to-east travel, and so far has been proven to work on hamsters:
Experiments on hamsters found they climbed on to wheels 25 to 50 per cent faster if they were given the sex drug after having their [...]