On my last trip, I came down to the jetway before boarding to meet my new flight attendants. It’s not unusual for us to switch cabin crew throughout the day, so I go through the same get-to-know-you talk many times a trip. Generally, it’s a short get-to-know-you talk… literally, getting to know each other. But
If you fly for a living, you know the drill. The van drops you at the hotel. You drag your bag past the front desk. And suddenly you have 18 hours in a city you’ve been to so many times and never have actually seen. The blackout curtains are calling, or at least after you
A nearly full moon above. A layer of clouds below. The Earth looks tucked in, cozy. Goodnight Moon. Goodnight Earth. On nights like this, it looks like we’re flying over an extraterrestrial landscape rather than the third planet. Titan, to be exact. The largest moon of Saturn. It’s twice the size of our little moon.
I first met Matt in 2017. He was 18 and a passenger on our flight from Baltimore to Tampa, by way of Birmingham, headed to watch spring training with his dad. He was a true Southwest enthusiast; he’d talked his father into booking the flight with a stop instead of the nonstop so he could
CROSSPOST FROM https://stories.retro-exo.com/story/65/ I must have been in seventh or eighth grade. We had an IBM PCjr at home. I know it was bought for me. There was a kid sister in the house… a parent or two. I was the one who was interested in these things. I started out playing games on an
CROSSPOSTED FROM https://stories.retro-exo.com/story/21/ You know how you can tell the pilot in the room? They will tell you. Not so subtly waves from the corner. I’m 52 and a professional airline pilot. So, naturally, I have been ‘playing’ flight simulators my whole life. It started with Microsoft Flight Simulator (v2.0) with its glorious CGA graphics
