I was reading this morning about a United Airlines flight that encountered sudden and severe turbulence. It was somewhere over Wyoming, I think. A couple of crew members and two or three passengers were hurt … got bounced off the ceiling. I’ve probably made the trans-Pacific flight from Hawaii to the U.S. mainland 200 times…
Back in the late 70s, I worked for the City of Honolulu. I was a member of the mayor’s cabinet and it was a high-profile job. Whenever we talk about those days, my wife invariably begins every anecdote by saying, “Well, when Jim was somebody … ” Anyway, as one of the unofficial fringe benefits…
Many years ago – it was sometime in the mid-60s – I was working for an advertising agency that had several interesting tourism accounts, mostly in the Caribbean. The man who headed up that division was Vic Cheena. Vic was quite elderly at the time and was, in fact, the third employee ever hired by…
For years – well, until the start of the flying-is-no-longer-fun era – the airlines have tried to provide restaurant-like food service in their first class cabins. I had that experience on a memorable Pan American flight years ago when the travel gods contrived for me to be upgraded on a flight from Honolulu to San…