Comments on: What’s Going On?

By: Art Hill

Art Hill — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 22:42:06 +0000

I would think in the name of safety all the over head storage compartments could be made to automatically lock at takeoff. This help speed up the evacuation process in a emergency.

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 14:57:21 +0000

Speed: Is the car-crash/plane-crash comparison valid? The average American spends many-many-Many more hours travelling in a car than in an airplane. That fatal car-crashes should be wayyyy more numerous is only to be expected.

By: Ken moore

Ken moore — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:25:22 +0000

What typically happens to the flight crew who botch something on a flight, such as the American flight in Orlando who mistook a taxiway for a runway

By: BH

BH — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:46:03 +0000

Perhaps all our airlines need to cease those cute-for-nothing often silly, pre-flight safety videos. At least in an old fashioned and firm tone attempt communicating NOT to grab carry-on luggage in an emergency evacuation and wear those seatbelts at ALL the time. And of course no restroom dash as aircraft begins the initial final approach. Not that I give a care about fellow traveler, but care about my personal well being as that other person is tossed about and injuries ME! Just saying.

By: UHF

UHF — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:43:59 +0000

You love a good crash on this blog, though. I’m flying Jeju Air once more today.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 13:16:18 +0000

Also, the stock market is beginning to recede, we are seeing massive layoffs in the public and private sectors, and the US Government has become quite hostile to foreign visitors. It’s possible it has nothing to do with fear of flying and everything to do with economics and geopolitics.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 23:57:46 +0000

In reply to Mike Scanlan. There are many potential complications with this idea. Beginning with the fact the system wouldn’t work right half the time, and bins would always be sticking closed at the end of a flight, trapping people’s stuff inside.

By: Penny Jackson

Penny Jackson — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:48:59 +0000

Beau Virage, 18-3, Interesting point. When the command “Doors to manual and cross-check” sounds, does that include all doors? And if so how are passengers on the wings supposed to escape from the wings after that?

By: Gimlet Winglet

Gimlet Winglet — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 02:26:40 +0000

“Someone else had the idea of locking the overhead lockers before landing and unlocking them only after the plane had come to a halt at the gate.”

An internet quote meme: There Is Always a Well-Known Solution to Every Human Problem—Neat, Plausible, and Wrong.

You want to tell the asthmatic pax they need to remember to pull their inhaler out of bag before taking their seat? Airlines looking at 15 minute longer boarding times because everyone blocks the aisle while sorting through their carryon for contingency goodies before stowing it? Cabin crew no longer getting sit-down rest time because they’re being pinged constantly to open a carryon bin?

Yeah, pax should sort out their shit while they’re waiting to board and have their contingency items at hand. I do that. You expect every one of the ~4.8 billion 2024 pax to do that, including the ones who had to run to the gate due to things out of their control?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 12:32:49 +0000

The carry-on thing during accidents strikes me.
I find it remarkable that pilots, trained in the no-blame-culture, turn into NPCs and blame passengers the very second they leave the apparently narrow scope of their training.

Let’s apply no-blame here for a second: Accepting the passengers’ desire to keep their belongings, how about an insurance for carry-on luggage? It gets scanned in detail anyway before boarding, and 50 (mandatory) cent added to the ticked price for insuracne might be acceptable.

Is that too far fetched?