What neither this article, nor the linked item, talk about, is that some people may have another safety concern with taking sleeping pills—their fellow passengers. I’m not gonna knock myself out with some stranger sitting next to me. For myself, I would only sleep on an aircraft if I’m on a window seat, with someone I…

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If you want to increase the odds of this happening, go to the airport dressed nicely—gents, the *bare minimum* is a polo and dockers. Women, a smart business suit or dress. Don’t freak out; you can find one that’s comfortable for a longish flight—I have a skirt-and-blouse combo that I wear when flying quite often. If…

As an amputee passenger frequently in a power wheelchair, who travels a fair bit, I find this article hilariously naive. It may work that way at one or two airports, but not at the ones I’ve traveled to in the last couple of years. Knowing what to expect? I’ve been treated differently *at the same checkpoint* twice in…