I got back from Hawaii on Thursday morning. All day Thursday I was in a fog. Every year since 2008 I have gone to the North American Autoshow in Detroit. It’s my annual pilgrimage. To be open…I go to about 5 autoshows a year….only a few different cars at each one. Eh. Anyways the public show [...]

Question : Yesterday I was on a flight from Houston to Omaha and apparently the ground crew loaded too much fuel.  Consequently, we taxied out to the end of the runway, but then sat off to the side while the captain ran the engines up to burn off the excess.  We probably sat there about [...]

Had a great vacation on the Island of Maui. Getting there was easy thanks to open flights. Getting back…not so easy. My wife and daughter had real tickets both ways. The return flight started filling up a few days ago. The day prior it was overbooked. Another airline cancelled a flight and thus filled up [...]

I’ve been wanting to write this for a while. Every now and then airlines change the gate for departing…and arriving flights. This isn’t done for fun. It causes a lot of headaches. Let’s just look at two gates call them gate 10 and gate 15 Flight 290 is scheduled to leave at 8AM from gate [...]

This will be short. More later. On day 2 of a 3 day. Great 3 day trip. Great crew. Started early with a 5AM van. First flight was nice. A whole 3 passengers on board. I’m sure the profit was gone as soon as we deiced. Arrived early. My leg. VFR at the hub, but [...]

Felt better on Friday afternoon so I figured I could fly my 2 day trip on Saturday. Saturday morning I was good to go. This was originally a 4 day. Due to scheduling changes by my mainline partner every flight after the overnight changed. I get paid for it all, but don’t have to fly [...]