Taking Wing

The one thing that connects practically every airline crewmember in the world regardless of the company they fly for is the fact that they s...

It's official. The US airline industry is (back) in the crapper. With oil at $130+ per barrel, it's just a matter of time before one...

I've mentioned that we sold our Blazer rather than drive it back to Minnesota. Our experiment in single-car living has mostly been a suc...

Or, the amusing anecdote of a new captain's dumb mistake.... Although NewCo has been flying to Memphis for several months, I finally mad...

My fed ride on Monday went very well. It was a short flight from Minneapolis to Madison, with pretty good weather on both ends, and everythi...

It was a strange feeling, to be entering the flight deck as I had many times before but then to turn left instead of right and to sling my ...

Spring has, it seems, finally decided to show up and stay a while. There've been many reported sightings and tantalizing clues of its re...