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In-flight meal service can be a long process.  After all, the flight attendants have a lot of work to do during it. You also have to get your food during the specific meal service times (unless you are in first and have a really nice flight attendant).  So it’s either buy now, or …

This company really believes in show-don’t-tell.  Fancy Hands, a company I’ve sung the praises of, is continuing its offer to negotiate a lower rate with your cable bill–for free.   I tried it and I wasn’t able to get a discount (because I just started a new cable plan and …

Would it make you safer to know that your in-flight safety officer can break plates with her bare-hands, handle a weapon, and subdue and escort an unruly passenger off the plane? These are some of the requirements for women at Chengdu East Star Airlines Travel College. According to Rocket News, this school: …

When John Golden of The Golden Dish went to eat at The Honey Paw restauarant in Portland, Maine, the owner gave him two options–he could eat at the restaurant or he could write about it–but not both. Finding this “request” odd, the food critic reviewed the restaurant anyway, giving it a very positive review. Turns …

Google Maps has been crowd-sourcing small details to their maps for a while.  Things like, where large patches of grass are, bike trails, small streams, etc. If you wanted to make an edit to the map, it would be vetted by someone, usually not employed by Google, who was also …

Here’s a video that had me holding my breath.  An airplane swerved a little too far and came within inches of clipping a set of skydivers. Yikes! The poster mentions in the comments that there’s a video on YouTube where the jumper had something similar happen, but wasn’t as lucky. …

American Airlines cancelled 3.1% of its flights so far in 2015, over twice the percentage of Spirit Airlines. Delta only cancelled 0.7% of its flights, and Alaska only 0.3%. Dallas News dissected the details, based on this data from the Department of Transportation. Spirit also lost way less bags per …

I saw a daily deal for a restaurant my friend’s been wanting to go to.  Before sending it to my friend, I checked out the website and was glad I didn’t pass the “deal” on. This was the Living Social deal I saw:   $30 for a prix-fixe dinner or …

The Association of Flight Attendants launched a lawsuit after the FAA allowed electronics on take off and landing.  The lawsuit was dismissed since the FAA has authority to change these types of rules. From SlashGear: The group claimed that passengers were no longer paying attention to the highlight of their …