Right after 9-11 I flew to the UK and back and there was very heavy security, but nobody minded at all. The risks were still unknown and we all wanted to be safe. Now however we are pretty aware of the risks, ranging as they do from shoe bombs to chemical bombs and the like [...]

An odd circular argument I stumbled across today from Iain Murray at the National Review Online, he is arguing that by canceling flights to hold safety inspections the airlines may be pushing people to drive, which is more risky than flying and that some may die in accidents. Thus safety inspections may be killing people. [...]

Most of the time flying is pretty dull, every now and then it isn’t.

This Telegraph story tells an interesting story about flying in the UK at the moment, the waits at the airports are now longer than the flights themselves for short haul flights. The English folk I work with complain about the brusque treatment they get when arriving in the US, they are not treated as welcomed [...]

I came across this fantastic comic about the airline safety briefing last week on someone’s blog and had to laugh when I watched the Stewardess give the demo on my flight over to the UK last night. If you haven’t seen the cartoon take a look, it is brilliant.