United Airlines ends coach preboarding for children – CNN.com: “Kate Hanni of flyersrights.org calls the move ‘very anti-family.’ ‘There are very few things a parent can count on when it comes to air travel these days, but one of those things was always the ability to board first to get your children settled in and all of their needs met before the throngs of people board the plane,’ said Hanni in an e-mail to CNN. ‘I hope United changes their mind.'” (Via cnn travel.) Here’s a better…

> In Tuesday’s demonstration, Transportation Security staffers walked into one of the newly configured machines and stopped with their arms raised, as passenger being scanned are asked to do. A small video monitor near the unit’s exit displayed the results for both the passenger and the security officer operating the machine. > > Those who deliberately carried objects were detected and portrayed as generic human outlines, with regions of their body highlighted by a box indicating additional security attention was warranted. > > Those who carried no questionable objects saw a screen that…

George Carlin wasn’t wrong when he used to complain about the tortured language used during air travel. I just heard part of an announcement over the loudspeaker here in Phoenix: “…For your convenience, please use the adjacent parking facility.” For your convenience, please use? What the hell does that mean? At least put a subject in there. “An adjacent parking lot is available for your convenience.” That’s still a lie, but at least it’s a sentence. How about “No Parking here. Park over there” Plain. Simple. Direct.…