This is pretty cool. I am going to give this a try the next time I fly Continental, although I will carry a printed boarding pass as backup.

Quoted: Their [Continental's] boarding pass is an image of an encrypted bar code displayed on the phone’s screen, which can be scanned by gate agents and security personnel.

When I fly out of Newark (a NY area airport that is actually in NJ), I often have to wait in the plane an hour or more before it takes off.

Quoted: Under the so-called "Passenger Bill of Rights," airlines would be required to provide food, water and clean toilets to passengers stuck on the ground for more than three hours. Airlines that fail to follow the new law could have to pay a fine of $1,000 per passenger for each violation.

Good idea, given that only 1% of Indians have actually traveled in a plane.

Quoted: Bahadur Chand Gupta, a retired Indian Airlines engineer, bought an old Airbus 300 from an insurance company in 2003, rebuilt it, and it now sits in a Delhi suburb where people pay $4 per "trip" so they can experience what it must be like to fly.

Just read about Kingfisher Airlines. Kingfisher is (the leading?) beer company in India, so I suppose it makes sense they operator an airline, too.

Anyways, according to the Economist, the differentiator with Kingfisher Airlines is an "all-female crew wearing distinctive tight-fitting red skirts".

Pretty crazy. Even the second try, when they landed successfully, looked scary.

Quoted: This video is worth watching. A Northwest airlines flight landing at SeaTac had a rough, and aborted, landing, due to high winds the other day.

What were they thinking?

Quoted: It seems to me that this experiment should not only subject Jet Blue to substantial fines, but it should issue an apology (and flying freebies) to all of the passengers it tested or get slapped with a public action lawsuit.

Surprsing, although it would be interesting to see a breakdown by aircraft type.

Quoted: In the US alone, between 1983 and 2000, there were 568 plane crashes. Out of the collective 53,487 people onboard, 51,207 survived.

This is an improvement. But, I normally carry full-size shaving creme and shampoo. If I want to continue doing that, they have to be checked in.

Quoted: Now, passengers are allowed to bring travel-size containers of liquids and gels as long as they all fit into a quart-size clear plastic bag available for inspection at the security checkpoints.
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Under the new rule, containers with personal hygiene products should not exceed 3 ounces. Drinks purchased at shops located beyond the checkpoints will be allowed onto planes.

Interesting...

Quoted: I took my first commercial airline flight in the 1960's, while still in high school. I've logged millions of miles since (according to my frequent flyer statements), and have really been struck by the dramatic changes in flying over the past 40 years or so. Here, before I forget them, are some of my more vivid memories of my earliest airline experiences.