Every rules of airplane decorum apply to all travel. As a business traveller, you need to pay special attention to your presentation and behaviour during the flight. Urban crew are trained to be courteous and polite at all times. It is usually the case that unruly passengers are the boozing passengers.
An appalling record compared with much of the rich world is not just down to drugs and guns. We ask what changes, both in policy and philosophy, might reduce the death toll. A heat-transporting ocean current in the Atlantic could soon be on the wane—or switch off altogether (10:08). That would have disastrous consequences. And musing on airborne etiquette for business travelers (18:09).
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Runtime: 23 min