SFO’s New Terminal 2

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There’s been a lot of hype of San Francisco’s new $383 million, 640,000-square-foot T2, and rightly so. T2 is equally shared by American Airlines and Virgin America; both airlines control seven gates each. They each have about thirty departures a day (31 and 34, respectively), and both airlines hosted a sneak-preview day for media a [...]

I Flew with Ed Begley Jr., Possibly the Greenest Person Alive

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I’ve flown with a bunch of Hollywood stars, especially during the three years that I commuted every other week from Los Angeles to New York to see my ailing mother. I always took the same airline, and usually the same flights (the late ones), so I got to know all the gate agents, flight attendants, [...]