Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 12:15PM The first step in Delta Flight 481 to Mexico last Tuesday was coating the wings of the plane with a de-icer so that we didn't freeze up and drop out of the sky on take-off. Seemed like a good idea to me.
Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 12:11AM 
A lot of my fieldwork this year has started out at Gate A6 in Terminal 4 at JFK airport in New York. This is how you get to S.E. Asia using Singapore Airlines's New York-Frankfurt-Singpapore portal. Eighteen hours of pure flying bliss. The stewards and stewardesses waiting to board seem as thrilled about the trip as I was last Friday night. [NOTE: As far as I am concerned, Singapore Airlines is the best airline in the world. Period. Yeah, the flight was a killer, but I was very well taken care of. These guys are professionals (thx)].