I’m on the train home at 2:30 am, writing this. I should have been asleep in bed at my parent’s house in Maine. I was booked to take a JetBlue 5:34 flight from JFK – Portland, Maine today. I had called JetBlue earlier about switching to an afternoon flight due to the threat of storms, […]
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At approximately 3:40 p.m. on March 8, 2012, I arrived at the El Paso airport and dropped off my rental car. I had just returned from testifying at a New Mexico Child Support Hearing in Las Cruces, New Mexico, by subpoena because my Ex was in arrears on his child support. Upon doing so, I […]
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One time on my many trips to Japan, I was flying out of San Francisco and was just getting comfortably settled into my seat. I usually sat in the upper deck as this is where all HP employees preferred to sit, and I traveled with them a lot. This trip I was on my own, […]
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My fiancé and I decided to get married someplace far away, with the destination known by few, because his ex-wife was on a continuous two-year rampage of harassment, phone calls, texting, bad-mouthing to his children, kicking in the back of his company vehicle… and the list goes on. We did not want our wedding to […]
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I was flying with my fiancé on AA from Los Angeles to Helsinki, Finland. We had a 50 minute stop over at Toronto airport on June 22, 2014 on our way to Helsinki on a Finnair flight.
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It was Christmas time in the 80’s. It was a crucial time for Boeing, as there was a time crunch for the Air Force One proposal. They felt that the engineers who were working on the proposal team couldn’t be spared to go home for Christmas vacation. Finally, a solution – why not keep the […]
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Flight from Amsterdam – Seattle. Window seat middle of plane. Ninety minutes into a seemingly long and uneventful flight the lady in the row in front of me starts flopping around like a fish out of water.
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My husband and I were flying with our kids who were then four and eighteen months old. A woman who was sitting with her large two year old allowed the child to run up and down the aisle for most of the flight unattended as she watched a movie. When the FA told her to […]
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I was recently on a flight from Hong Kong – Dubai – Sao Paulo on Emirates Airline. Oh how wrong I was when I thought that my last flight to Sao Paulo was going to be peaceful.
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I was heading home from San Francisco back to Phoenix. I checked in at Southwest Airlines and got, I think, seat B32. As I was sitting in the terminal by the gate, I heard a guy talking to a girl. His conversation centered around the fact that they both got “C” boarding passes and he […]
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Thursday, April 24th, 2014. My daughter, who just graduated from college, and my wife were at Logan Airport in Boston for our long planned and awaited trip to Bermuda on JetBlue. The plane was right there in sight at the gate, fueled and ready to go.
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I needed to make a flight from Western North Carolina to Des Moines, Iowa. I had a choice of several airports I could leave from, but chose Charlotte because it had the least expensive fare. Since it was Delta, it had to connect through Atlanta, Georgia. I booked the flight, and then I noticed that […]
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