No problem. I had just climbed Kibo (Mt. Kilimanjaro) for six days after a 3 country safari. I was in Zanzibar to ‘relax’ and go to the spa. Zanzibar is a beautiful island off of the coast of Tanzania and right on the equator so rain, clouds, nothing like that is weird. I was walking to my full body massage/facial…

Fair. Which is why I am not an airline executive.

Complete professionals. They actually asked for the card of the ‘doctor’ who gave me a shot and told me to board their plane. One walked off stating “that quack needs his license revoked!”

And then reinforced by other ‘friends’. This is not how you interact with the world. Not in any kind of successful capacity.

Holy shit I’m so sorry to read of your cousin. How awful. I’m sure we shared the same mentality-young, no problems, healthy, etc. My comment meant to portray support not demonize the pilots.

I’ve obviously never tried or will even be available to win anything like a Grammy. I have won a very high-level award in my career. As much as I appreciate my competitors, I would never ever give that away.

Here is a second hand one. I was speaking with a woman I now consider a friend near Livingstone, Zambia. I often travel alone so I always talk to the butlers, wait staff, guides, staff, etc. She was telling me she had an 18 month old and a 3 year old. Because of her working location and her living location (and public…

The blogs posts about Beyonce that the author finds repulsive?

I had a guy in Siberia (not kidding) literally yell at me because at the time I was 31 and without children. He told me I do not understand what love is, that my friends and some members of my family dying meant nothing and that I should not have a career or be unmarried at such an age. I was dumbfounded. He called…

Hearing the words ‘the soft velvet of your mother’ creeped me out.

Not only that but who would want to be a commercial pilot? Especially on any long haul trips. The one I take (direct on Emirates) from east to west is like 14 hours without a stop. I realize takeoff/landing is the most crucial and pilots aren’t geared up and focus for the entirety of the flight since auto-pilot. It’s…

I was kicked off of a flight once. Not for being a jerk or anything but because two days prior I had just broken 3 ribs and had not seen a doctor. I was trying to self-medicate with booze as I was just leaving a small island just trying to fly back to work and it was extremely painful to stand up, walk around, let…

Thank you for that distinction. I did not even think about how the crew are able to fly free.

For as many people consider themselves legal experts on any and all news items that are published here it’s ironic many seem to forget the precedent it would set if companies charged with violating privacy are unable to be held liable.

Very true!

I didn’t really mean to imply you wanted that. Most pilots and flight crew I know are always seemingly in a huge rush. If someone I was acquainted with at work passed by me in such a way and brushed it off as being extremely late and their uniform (in this case) was in their bag and they would quickly change at…

I would think that most pilots and flight crew are expedited through any type of airport security. Imagine the additional costs and time it would take if every pilot or crew member had to pass some type of mental health check before every flight?

Disliking nachos should be a punishable offense!

Yikes. I’m glad she was unable to get behind the controls in that frame of mind.

I’m not talking about the guy in the article! I have no other interaction with “christ” poster aside from this one word comment. But if you try and call someone out for being stupid you better know what you are talking about. If it were a friend of mine I’d probably giggle and tell them to get their facts straight.