Plane Insanity

Plane Insanity
Author: Elliott Hester
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-04-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1429905417

You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's 92 degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott Hester delivers stories that could only come from someone who "rides tin" for a living-a flight attendant. You'll hear about: * the passenger from hell * a smuggled python * prostitutes working the lavatories * a riot in coach-class * a heist * the anatomy of a carryon bag * a malodorous couple * the Mile-High Club * and more! Fasten your seatbelts. After Plane Insanity, you'll never think of air travel the same way again.

Madness Aboard

Madness Aboard
Author: Yvonne Lee
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-08-15
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9814382841

Life In The Skies: Everything you want to know about flying

Life In The Skies: Everything you want to know about flying
Author: Lim Khoy Hing
Publisher: Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9814484873

Life in the Skies is a unique compendium of tips, advice, anecdotes and tales from the storied career of life-long pilot, Captain Lim Khoy Hing. Captain Lim provides insights into every aspect of air travel – informing passengers of all the hidden mysteries of airplane safety and regulations, enlightening those who wonder how someone trains and becomes an international airline pilot, and entertaining readers throughout with anecdotes, tales and jokes from his own personal experiences in the air. Complemented with more than 40 full-colour personal illustrations of the Captain, Life in the Skies will be a valuable and useful guide for air travellers and budding-pilots alike!

Anger in the Air

Anger in the Air
Author: Joyce A. Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2016-04-15
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1317181050

The new realities of airline travel came into full focus after the September 11 terrorist attacks. These horrific events escalated air rage incidents by 400%, but more importantly they put the entire airline industry under the spotlight. In subsequent years, the general public began to voice frustrations with the industry in very dramatic ways, a marked shift in consumer behavior from that of before 9/11. The International Transport Workers Federation responded with a call to action to bring about major changes to raise the airline industry to a level of service quality sufficient to meet the needs of 21st Century passengers. The quality of services that airline customers expect and the propensity toward air rage needs to be understood. Undoubtedly, some passengers are prone to air rage by factors in no way related to customer service. However, a better understanding of the customer's perception of service and airlines' offerings is one way of addressing the air rage crisis, combating the contributing factors long before they conspire to provoke a damaging incidence. Anger in the Air: Combating the Air Rage Phenomenon provides airlines with valuable input to help them better meet the service expectations of their customers and avoid instances of air rage on their flights. What do today's customers need and expect? What do airline customers perceive as the quality of services and how can the gap be closed between expectations and perceptions? The book addresses these key issues in five stages: 1.

Femininity in Flight

Femininity in Flight
Author: Kathleen Barry
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2007-02-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822339465

'Femininity in Flight' considers flight attendants as cultural icons, looking at how attendants redeployed the 'glamourization' used to sell air travel to campaign for professional respect, higher wages, and women's rights.

Adventures of a Continental Drifter

Adventures of a Continental Drifter
Author: Elliott Hester
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2006-09-19
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780312312428

Traces the author's 2002 travels throughout twenty-two countries, a journey during which he engaged in such activities as a cow poaching, a celebrity impersonation, and a transvestite chase.

Get Slightly Famous

Get Slightly Famous
Author: Steven Van Yoder
Publisher: Bay Tree Pub
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780972002110

I build levers to move objects that appear to be immovable.Alexei Drovosek represents the next evolution of human: no heart, immunity to cancer, and the uncanny ability to survive in conditions that would kill normal men. As an orphan growing up in post-Soviet Russia, Alexei was taken in by the state and trained as its most vicious and effective killer. But eventually the Russian Federal Security Service's best-trained assassin did the most dangerous thing of all: he turned on his handlers, went rogue, and disappeared.In the bleak, high-tech near future, Alexei has resurfaced in a secret compound on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a city where autonomous-drive vehicles race along the highways and independent city-states operate with materialistic impunity. In the center of it all is the soaring headquarters of Pearl Knight Industries, an international mega-corporation that keeps war machines and cultural capitalism running in every country and on every continent on the planet. As a principal proponent of the 31st Amendment to the United States constitution, which legalized the transfer of suffrage from citizens to corporations, Pearl Knight has power that is truly above the law.Alexei lives a clandestine existence where his closest companions are his personal AI, Emma, and a group of orphans he has spent years amassing and training. But Alexei isn't fostering these children as a favor to the state; he's raising them with the hope that they will destroy it. As he moves each child into play in the world's highest-stakes game of chess that spans decades and continents, Alexei fights to destroy the plutocratic control of those in power and restore what matters to him most: democracy and freedom.

Aviation Security Management

Aviation Security Management
Author: Andrew R. Thomas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 801
Release: 2008-10-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0313346534

Because of 9/11, there is universal recognition that aviation security is a deadly serious business. Still, around the world today, the practice of aviation security is rooted in a hodgepodge of governmental rules, industry traditions, and local idiosyncrasies. In fact, nearly seven years after the largest single attack involving the air transport industry, there remains no viable framework in place to lift aviation security practice out of the mishmash that currently exists. It is the ambitious intent of Aviation Security Management to change that. The goals of this set are nothing less than to make flying safer, to make transporting goods by air safer, and to lay the foundation for the professionalization of this most important field. This dynamic set showcases the most current trends, issues, ideas, and practices in aviation security management, especially as the field evolves in the context of globalization and advances in technology. Written by leading academic thinkers, practitioners, and former and current regulators in the field, the three volumes highlight emerging and innovative practices, illustrated with examples from around the world. Volume 1 takes a penetrating look at the overall framework in which aviation security management has taken place in the past and will likely do so in the foreseeable future. It covers the major areas of focus for anyone in the aviation security business, and it provides a basis for educational programs. Volume 2 delves into the emerging issues affecting aviation security managers right now. Volume 3: Perspectives on Aviation Security Management covers the full spectrum of international aviation security-related issues. It will serve as part of the foundation for the next generation of research in the area in both a business and cultural context. Collectively, these volumes represent the state of the art in the field today and constitute an essential resource for anyone practicing, studying, teaching, or researching aviation security management.

The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties

The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties
Author: Fairfield Goodale
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2005-08
Genre:
ISBN: 0595360858

"We were told that everything in the Buchenwald camp was as it had been on the day of liberation-torture devices, gallows, crematoria containing charred human remains, gas chambers, piles of teeth with gold extracted, lamp shades of tattooed human skin-except that the diet and living conditions of the current population of 20,000 prisoners were a bit improved, and they were free within the barbed wire compound to move wherever they were physically able to with their slow, torturous, tiny-stepped shuffle. Their striped uniforms, bearing yellow stars and sometimes pinkish insignia, were baggy and hung in tatters from skeleton frames, yet each prisoner's appearance and demeanor displayed every vestige of dignity he could muster. No hangdogs, no whimpering, no complaining, no visible tears. They were beyond that, and above it." All of the author's proceeds from the sale of The Absolute Truth And Other Uncertainties-A Remembrance will be donated to the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation, Santa Barbara, California.

Aviation Law: Cases, Laws and Related Sources

Aviation Law: Cases, Laws and Related Sources
Author: Paul B. Larsen
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Total Pages: 1396
Release: 2012-06-07
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004168109

Written in the context of the post-9/11 legal climate, this text introduces all the major areas of aviation, covering such topics as the international air law regime, crimes involving aircraft, international air carriage, litigation management, and governmental immunity from liability.