It was a brief up-and-down trip, a connecting flight, barely 40 minutes in length. Clearly there was no time for a meal service. I settled in with my pretzels and ice water, blissfully unaware that this flight was one of the last, lingering few to receive Continental's complimentary ...

 
I consider a grilled shrimp salad an inflight score, especially on a domestic route. I was given a choice between the shrimp and something that resembled a sad, brown version of a burrito from my high-school cafeteria days. To be fair, it was called a "beef quesadilla ...

Who doesn't prefer the food in Business class?


This morning I participated in a contest offered by Lufthansa. In honor of today's inaugural A380 flight (FRA-JFK), the “Catch the Crew” contest was a mini-Amazing Race/scavenger hunt through the streets of SoHo in ...

  I don’t take many domestic flights. When I do, they’re connectors, usually of the crack-of-dawn variety at such an ungodly hour that the choice between eggs and cereal becomes a weighty decision. I recently found myself on a relatively short flight at a decent hour, ...