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How To Get People To Stop Talking To You On Planes And In Hotel Bars

by Gary Leff on March 10, 2023

Mar 10 2023

Your seat opponent starts chatting away, and you’re tired and just want to rest, or you want to work. You’re not up for a conversation, don’t really care about their kids or that their monthly flights and co-brand credit card shows how much they know about the airline and its loyalty program.

So you put on noise cancelling headphones but that doesn’t quite do the trick. Sure, you opt for over the ear rather than ear buds just to make it more blindingly obvious yet somehow it isn’t. You also look down at your phone, which is a universal sign for ‘I’m not paying attention to you.’ But maybe it’s not so universal?

How To Work On Planes Like A Boss

by Gary Leff on March 10, 2023

Mar 10 2023

This is inflight productivity move of a true boss: bring all of your emails printed out onto the plane for some uninterrupted work time.

United Airlines Passenger Tried To Open Emergency Exit Midflight, Stab Crewmember In Neck

by Gary Leff on March 6, 2023

Mar 06 2023

On Sunday a passenger on board United Airlines flight 2609 from Los Angeles to Boston partially disarmed the emergency exit door, attempting to open it, and then tried to stab a cabin crewmember in the neck.

Men Have To Start Wearing Pants When They Fly, This Is An Actual Problem

by Gary Leff on March 5, 2023

Mar 05 2023

Becky Pokora from Forbes Advisor, and who has written extensively for The Points Guy, found herself in an airport lounge where a man was… taking off his pants.

Gentlemen, stop it. Just stop it.

Man Urinated On Seatmate On American Airlines Flight To India

by Gary Leff on March 5, 2023

Mar 05 2023

On Friday night’s American Airlines flight 292 from New York JFK to Delhi, a passenger urinated on a seat opponent. Unlike recent similar incidents, though, this wasn’t a case of the man walking up and aiming at the victim. I

Should You Work On Planes – Or Is It Personal Time To Escape Work?

by Gary Leff on March 4, 2023

Mar 04 2023

Flight time is the only time it’s possible to achieve inbox zero. There’s nothing wrong with having a show on in the background, but the opportunity where no one can really reach you – come by your office, call, have a video meeting – is a fantastic heads down chance for crossing things off your list, finishing documents, or even just thinking about a problem and taking notes.

Passenger Loses His Cool When He’s Unable To Sit Next To His Wife On The Plane ‘It’s Her Birthday!’

by Gary Leff on March 3, 2023

Mar 03 2023

A Melbourne-based couple traveling on Virgin Australia couldn’t get seats next to each other in business class when they booked. Virgin’s Boeing 737 premium cabin has just two rows up front.

So they took a window seat and an aisle seat on the other side of the aircraft, and tried to switch with another passenger when they boarded.

Passenger Bakes A Cheesecake Using Southwest Airlines Mix, Shapes It Like The LUV Carrier’s Logo

by Gary Leff on February 28, 2023

Feb 28 2023

Jem Jebbia, a PhD candidate in Religious Studies at Stanford, loves Southwest Airlines and its route network from California so much that she’s made a special baking tribute to the airline and its snacks on TikTok. Ms. Jebbia decided to make dessert out of snack mix.

She used the airline’s free snack mix as a crust to make Jell-o cheesecake. The pan was heart-shaped, natch, so that her creation would take the form of Southwest’s logo.

Martin Short Volunteers His Airline Seat So Father And Daughter Can Sit Together

by Gary Leff on February 27, 2023

Feb 27 2023

Chance the Rapper – 29 year old Chancelor Bennett – was the first person ever to win a Grammy Award for a streaming-only album in 2016. He’s a big deal, even if not all readers will know him.

But he’s not beyond being star struck. He relays that he was flying with his daughter and “found out” that they weren’t seated beside each other. He hadn’t even mustered himself to ask passengers around him to switch seats when a “kind older gentleman offered his seat to” Chance’s daughter.

Dog Flying Business Class On International Trip, All Tucked Into Their Own Seat

by Gary Leff on February 26, 2023

Feb 26 2023

One dog has the famous US Airways first class pig beat by a long shot. You can see that it is traveling in a fully flat business class seat of its own – all tucked in.

Readers may correct me, but this looks like a LATAM cabin, so a South America flight.