Good ideas here, but once again I’m going to be that person who points out that the word “chemical” doesn’t mean “dangerous” or “harsh” or “artificial” or or even “commercially-produced”. The only way to cut out the use of chemicals when you clean is not to clean. All cleaning products and tools, like everything else…

Apply to the self image and motivation department.

I had a (now gone) airline screw me on the voluntary/involuntary thing once. Overbooked flight, they needed a bunch of people off. No one volunteered, so they started bumping. Three names were called and we went to a service counter. The first name was that of my daughter. My 3 year old daughter. We said there had to…

The most helpful Google modifier by a country mile is: -pinterest. I wish there were a way to automatically include it on all of my searches.

I’m hearing this for the first time, and it just sounds like “So Long Bowser” with a weird fake Italian inflection at the end of the second word: “So Long-ge Bowser!”

It is great, but it would have been better if the final round was always won by a bot so none of the cheaters actually got crowns.

Have I done this before? Yes. Is it legal?  No. Don’t write an article that sounds like you found some sort of loophole. It’s still illegal. You really ought to throw that in there. 

I had a seat mate and his buddy that drank mini bottles of liquor on the plane. They were caught and met at the gate by local police when we landed.

Nope. Don’t reward Disney for putting that movie out.

Nope. Don’t reward Disney for putting that movie out.

The original company, Charter, also lacked data caps.

I’d like to think England fans are still not over this one.

Now, I’m not going to say this has anything to do with John Oliver doing an entire segment on how Chris had a hard time signing off at the end of each show just last night on “Last Week Tonight”, but I will say that I have certainly noticed a slow degradation in Matthews’ mental quickness on the show.  Not a dig…

(95% of it is terrible.)

Before I took a job that involves frequent flying I would have thought with the commoditization of air travel major airlines would more or less be equivalent, with externalities (weather, poor and outdated hubs, etc...) out of their control. Well, I was wrong, and my experience very closely lines up with this list.…

You’re absolutely right, those self entitled assholes are there and when they go, they go big. I saw one woman utterly lose her mind on an FA because the return flight didn’t have the same brand of wine that the prior flight served.

Your office chair doesn’t have to be designed to protect you if your office hits the ground at high speed !

The days of FAs and gate attendants giving upgrades “as a courtesy” are long gone. Because of past abuse, it is a serious rule breach at my airline. There are strict rules for who, when and how upgrades are given. Many booking systems do it automatically.

The weight of pax is not usually the issue, but 1) its distribution (that’s what the “and balance” is all about) and 2) the weight of luggage, which can be substantial. If you look around a cabin, a lot of its volume is air even if every seat is filled. Not so in cargo compartments which can be densely filled with…

For weight and balance purposes, they have to do a passenger count before a flight can take off.

Before my wife and I lost a lot of weight, we would buy 3 adjoining seats for the 2 of us. We tried to be respectful of others, and we didn’t want to cramp our fellow passengers. I would usually book 2 in my name, one in hers. I never checked in with both tickets that were in my name. I had a flight attendant come up…