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2026 27

  1. To the Table
  2. Power Trash
  3. The Pilot Threat
  4. Commemoration Done Right
  5. The Day of the Cockroach
  6. Five Dead After 767 Crashes in Miami
  7. Dlaczego nie Polska?
  8. Round or Flat?
  9. Travel Photos: The Textures Series
  10. Building 13
  11. Zen Arcade at 42
  12. Project Sunrise
  13. The Lowdown
  14. Boston and Bermuda
  15. Welcome to “Hidden Airport”
  16. Spirit in the Sky
  17. Don’t Look Up
  18. Letter From Chernobyl
  19. Never Heard of It
  20. Let the Stories Be Told
  21. The Collision at La Guardia
  22. Impressions
  23. Souls On Board
  24. Crossroads, Interrupted
  25. What’s the Big Obsession With Doors?
  26. Happy Birthday to the (Second) Greatest Album of All Time
  27. Haystack Revisited

2025 29

  1. Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 7
  2. Ask the Pilot Christmas, 2025
  3. The See-Through 747
  4. Meditations on a Coaster
  5. Toys in the Attic
  6. Thoughts on the UPS Crash.
  7. Why Does Flying Suck?
  8. Going the Distance
  9. Des Couleurs Magnifiques
  10. So Long to the Selfie Stick
  11. A Toast to Iran Air
  12. Here We Go Again
  13. Airplane Slippers That Don’t Suck
  14. Looking Down
  15. Do You Remember?
  16. At Long Last, TSA Ditches the Shoe Rule
  17. Arrivederci, Alitalia
  18. R.I.P. William Langewiesche
  19. Thoughts and Theories on the Air India Disaster
  20. Old Dog, New Tricks
  21. Safety Video Hell
  22. Terminal Memories
  23. What’s Going On?
  24. The Rolling Report Card
  25. Just Like Honey
  26. Inflight Entertainment
  27. Save Our Screens!
  28. Potomac
  29. The Year Ahead

2024 27

  1. Out With a Bang
  2. Ask the Pilot Christmas, 2024
  3. Lockerbie at 36.
  4. The Drones Danger
  5. Down and Out at the El San Juan
  6. Fearful Flyers Click Here
  7. Counting Up, Counting Down
  8. Dollars and Sense
  9. Autumn Macabre
  10. When is a Country Not a Country?
  11. First Class, Low Class, No Class: The Passenger Hall of Shame
  12. My Election Curse
  13. Top Flight
  14. Feeling the Heat
  15. Things Going Bump
  16. Rise & Whine
  17. Wrong Way Woes
  18. Memorial Day
  19. Deadly Turbulence
  20. Crossovers
  21. Graffiti Geek
  22. Room With a View
  23. MH 370, Ten Years On
  24. Future Tense
  25. When a Wing Comes Apart
  26. Dignified and Old
  27. Better Things to Talk About.

2023 19

  1. Biometric Wonder
  2. Marriage Minded
  3. Psyching Out
  4. Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 6
  5. Skyscape
  6. Terminal Racket. The Scourge of Airport Noise
  7. Dignified and Old
  8. Open Door Policy
  9. Flying With Air Baltic
  10. Jet Bridge Blues
  11. Full Circle
  12. Lucky and Good
  13. Short Haul Surprise
  14. Bush Boutique
  15. The Weirdness of the Post-Pandemic Hotel Room
  16. Decline and Fall of the U.S. Airport
  17. Two Pilots, One Pilot, No Pilots
  18. Where’s the LUV?
  19. Gravity

2022 33

  1. Remembering the Clash
  2. Flying in 2022
  3. Thoughts on the Movie “Sully”
  4. The Media’s Airplane Problem
  5. Air Travel in Art, Music and Film
  6. Pilots, Alcohol, Hollywood and Farce
  7. “Argo” and the 747
  8. Justice, of a Kind, For MH17
  9. The Riddle May Not be Deep
  10. Permanent Mystery
  11. Tragedy Over Tehran
  12. RIP Lou Reed
  13. Daredevil Debacles
  14. Me and My Sharpie
  15. The Death of Grant Hart, Five Years Later
  16. Ode to the 757
  17. The Regional Reckoning
  18. The Secret Lives of Flight Numbers
  19. The New American Airlines Livery
  20. Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 5
  21. Cockpit Confidential
  22. The Mad, Mad Summer of 2022
  23. Who’s More Experienced, the Copilot or the Captain?
  24. Here Comes the Summer
  25. Rarefied Air
  26. Unmasked
  27. The Latest Books by Jonathan Franzen and Gary Shteyngart
  28. Switched Off
  29. The China Eastern 737 Crash
  30. Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 3
  31. What the War in Ukraine Means for Air Travel
  32. Joining Forces
  33. Tell Me About This Photo

2021 7

  1. Clipper Conclusion: The Fall of Pan Am, 30 Years Later
  2. Twenty Years and Counting
  3. COVID Testing Made Easy.
  4. Keeping the Curtains Closed
  5. COVID Casualties
  6. Hotel Room Madness
  7. A Night at the TWA Hotel

2020 6

  1. Long Live the Airport Marquee
  2. Flying in the Age of Coronavirus
  3. A Gourmet Diversion. Savory Snapshots From 30,000 Feet.
  4. Thirty Years On
  5. Q&A With the Pilot, Coronavirus Edition
  6. Connect the Dots

2019 6

  1. The Airplane That Isn’t
  2. Plane and Pilot
  3. Things I Bring
  4. Pilots and Alcohol
  5. The 737 MAX
  6. Ode to the 767

2018 6

  1. Damn The Spinner Bag!
  2. The 747 in Winter
  3. The Airport Lounge Crisis
  4. Air Force One, Redone
  5. Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 4
  6. A Trip to Bhutan

2017 6

  1. Moving in Place
  2. Letter From Maho Beach
  3. Turbulence: Everything You Need to Know
  4. A “Life List” of Planes
  5. Flying: A Look on the Bright Side
  6. The Scourge of Inflight Garbage

2016 6

  1. Pilots and Mental Health
  2. Images From Liberia
  3. The United States of Trash, Dog Shit, Rubber Bands and Dental Floss
  4. Fact and Fallacy of the Pilot Shortage
  5. Lasers, Lasers, Everywhere
  6. The World’s Coolest Restaurant

2015 12

  1. Welcome to Schiphol, the Airport of Quirky Charms
  2. The De-Ice Man Cometh
  3. Homage to the Boarding Pass Wallet
  4. Checked, Set, Roger
  5. Letter From Ghana
  6. Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 2
  7. Laying Over
  8. Remembering Cairo
  9. Pilot Report: Long Live Air Malta!
  10. Pilotless Planes? Not So Fast.
  11. Q&A With the Pilot, Volume 1
  12. Attention Media: Copilots are Pilots

2014 8

  1. Should Kids Be Banned From First and Business Class?
  2. Letter From Hanoi
  3. The Name Game
  4. It Looks Like the Future. Up Close and Personal With the 787.
  5. My Kingdom for a Cup Holder
  6. “The Question”
  7. Pilots and Copilots. Who are These People?
  8. Yak Hunting in Liberia

2013 4

  1. Letter From Mumbai
  2. The Noisy, Sweaty Hell of Small Planes
  3. The Things We Carry
  4. Planes, Pranks, and Praise: Ode to an Airport

2012 3

  1. A Ride on the 787
  2. How to Speak Airline: A Glossary For Travelers
  3. The Journey of the Potato