Gone with the peanuts.
Not prayer beads.
Not prayer carpets.
Not prayer shawls.
Prayer cards. Read it all
air travel
Southwest Airlines Pilot Holds Plane
The pilot responded with, “They can’t go anywhere without me and I wasn’t going anywhere without you. Now relax. We’ll get you there. And again, I’m so sorry.”
I’m speechless. Twelve minutes many not sound like a lot to you or me, but every second counts when you’re an airline. Southwest can turn an entire plane around in about 20 minutes, so 12 minutes is half an eternity.
I shared Nancy’s story with Southwest, and a representative said the airline was “proud” of the way the pilot had held the flight. Again, most airlines would punish an employee who holds up the line for any reason.
This a trip that was saved amid tragic circumstances by a compassionate pilot and an airline that supported his decision to hold a flight.
Source: Southwest Airlines pilot holds plane for murder victim’s family
I have a much, much smaller Southwest-favor to report: They gave me heart-topped straws (or toothpicks or coffee-stirrers or whatever they were!) to “plant” at our son’s wedding.
Fly on, Southwest!
(And thanks again.)
Flying With Child
Dave Barry takes an imaginary journey, starting this way:
We set out with a sense of foreboding. If you ever feel a boding, and later on something bad happens, that was a foreboding.
We were traveling from Miami to Minnesota, a state located near, or possibly inside, Canada. The reason we felt a boding was that we were carrying a live baby, and we had stupidly elected to travel by airplane. I think that, instead of making such a big deal about weapons, the airlines ought to start cracking down on babies.
So………………………………was he trying to be funny or dumb?
When I had the opportunity to travel (kinda) with Benjie G, he was a super baby traveler. By air. By land. Wow!
“Are You Virginia?”
The few times we’ve air-traveled post-911 with minors, I’ve been grateful for this loophole:
Loophole allows minors to bypass airport security
When an Oregon teen talked his way onto an airplane bound for Chicago last weekend, he unknowingly revealed a little-known hole in airport security.
Kids don’t have to show photo ID.
That may come as a surprise to many air travelers. Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, travelers are accustomed to removing their shoes, not carrying liquids and otherwise coping with strict protocols of airport security.
But when it comes to conducting minors through airports, security and efforts to preserve air passenger convenience intersect in a highly unusual way.
The Transportation Security Administration requires all air travelers 18 and older to show a boarding pass and government-issued photo ID to enter security screening.
But minors generally don’t have government-issued IDs. So security officers don’t expect them to have one, says Dwayne Baird, the TSA’s public information officer for the Northwest.
That makes sense enough. But….