Coffee, Tea or Job? For Airline Workers, an Uncertain Future
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or decades, an airline job was a coveted plum. Good pay, generous benefits, strong unions and the glamour of air travel made pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and even baggage handlers the envy of their neighbors.
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Pilots are worried about safety in an air travel system stretched tight, with airline work forces reduced.
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The sit-wherever-you-want-to, provided-you- can-find-it philosophy that has long been associated with Southwest Airlines&#39; culture of folksy informality isn&#39;t going away anytime soon, despite a flurry of media reports earlier this week that implied it might
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By Christopher Rodkey, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 24--It doesn't always take a trendy location and hip baristas to produce a good cup of coffee.
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If traveling is an education, corporate frequent flyers hold an advanced degree. Still, for those who want to keep learning, hotels along the way provide opportunities in subjects as diverse as French cooking, Arabic lessons or Zen art.
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Flight attendants hear more complaints about the decline of airline service than they can remember. But what about the decline of passenger behavior?
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There are those few uninformed that spread ill will about commercial aviation. As is the case in just about anything, people who have no understanding of something love to pick it apart. I'm sure we all know someone who refuses to fly. Their reasons most likely include "I just don't feel safe on those things." The fact is, really, that airline travel is exceedingly safe, and becoming ever safer. I will try to explain exactly why this is. I'd also like to introduce general aviation, and relate what I know about the future of air travel. It is a sad fact that the general public knows very little about aviation, and yet has so much to say about it.
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Passengers taking to the skies for U.S. flights could be checking e-mail and surfing the Web through high-speed Internet connections in a couple of years. And the day when travelers can chat away on cell phones while in flight might not be far behind.
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The coffee you grab on the way to work may contain up to a fifth of your daily recommended calories, a study says.
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Tech workers, relax: A new Australian study refutes claims of health danger from cell phones and coffee.
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Don&#39;t be surprised if missing that cup of morning coffee gives you a headache or makes it difficult to concentrate at work. It&#39;s all part of caffeine withdrawal, say Johns
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Brian Jansen hopes his longtime employer, US Airways, can pull out of bankruptcy-court protection again. But just in case, he has taken out a little insurance policy on his future: a second job.
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Looking around San Diego&#39;s Lindbergh Field, it&#39;s hard to tell that the airline business is in distress. On any given day, tens of thousands of people make their way through its terminals to travel to destinations near and far.
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Travel: Airline travellers could face disruption at Christmas as union confirms call for ballot on industrial action.
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How a middle-aged man lost his job, his family and his health and then found peace working at Starbucksâand why do we care?
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The country's airline industry is booming, but airports and air traffic control are not keeping pace with all the progress
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Some of us are not quite ourselves without caffeine. Who knew?