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The airline pilots, the disease of the cockpits: ( Pilotes de ligne, la maladie des cockpits ) For the first time in France, a pilot removal complaint against his company. He believes that the air circulating in the aircraft would cause a “aérotoxique syndrome“. Collectives of seafarers and passengers have given a name to their combat: … More Easy Jet Pilot France Aerotoxic Syndrome Litigation
Concern exists about the potential chronic neurological effects among aircrew of exposure to chemical contaminants from engine oil in aircraft cabin air. We evaluated mortality from neurodegenerative diseases among 11,311 former US flight attendants. Vital status was ascertained through 2007, and life table analyses were conducted to obtain standardized mortality ratios (SMRs). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis … More Mortality from ALS Neurodegenerative Diseases in Flight Attendants
It is time to get out of the Dark Ages in Aviation Travel This is a simply ridiculous and discriminatory situation which still exists today in 2016. It mainly pertains to Orthodox Jews and Muslim Monks onboard the world’s airlines. Aviation is public transportation where the rights of the whole are to be honored … More Religious Discrimination against women in Airline Seating
Emirates just put out a big splashy spread in Yahoo Australia touting their ME3 Carrier Cabin Crew experience to be nothing short of rose tinted Rainbows and Unicorns. I have personally met many former American Cabin Crew who returned to America with a very different picture they painted. They were all telling tales of … More Life in the Golden Cage ME3 Carriers: Emirates, Qatar and Etihad
This is a simply disgraceful situation that is only going to get worse. As of today, all flights on the target list from Miami have now been expanded throughout Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean, Africa and Samoa in 22 destinations. Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, … More Organophosphate Poisoning inbound flights into the UK
Meet the 26-year-old airline captain and her 19-year-old co-pilot Easyjet captain Kate McWilliams in the cockpit with co-pilot Luke Elsworth. Young guns: Easyjet pilots Luke Elsworth and Kate McWilliams. Of the 130,000 airline pilots worldwide, just 450 are female captains according to the International Society of Women Airline Pilots, and McWilliams has urged more women to … More Baby Pilots on the Aviation Horizon
Woman live-tweets sitting next to guy’s ‘terrifying baby doll’ that has its own plane ticket. (Creepy Doll looks like Chucky’s little sister. I can see what she was freaked) Writer Sara Nović was gifted with the strangest in-flight entertainment when a man boarded the plane and basically re-enacted Lars and the Real Girl (a movie where Ryan Gosling falls in love with … More Chucky Doll Onboard Airline Flight
Jet Blue: Boston to Europe in 2017 One of travelers’ favorite airlines in the U.S. could be headed to Europe. JetBlue has placed an order for 30 Airbus A321s, which could set the airline up to expand overseas. JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes said that some of the airplanes on order could be configured for trans-Atlantic … More JetBlue Europe Bound
Cannabis or better known as marijuana has been used as a remedy for many centuries. Today, it is known that the reason lies in the compounds found in cannabis called cannabinoids. Some of them are psychoactive and act on the brain by changing mood or consciousness. They can be taken by mouth, inhaled, or sprayed under the … More Cannabis Cures 9 Types of Cancer
Mulberry Florida near the Tampa Bay area has a new sinkhole caused by a Mosaic Fertilizer plant. The information out there is vague. The sinkhole is enormous and it has leaked 215,000 gallons of radioactive, contaminated water into the state’s main drinking water supply. The sinkhole, formed below a phosphogypsum stack, has leaked an estimated … More Radioactive Phosphate Poisoning Florida Water Supply
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