What’s Next: Ask the Baggage Handler?
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.13.04 | 6:55 PM ET
Ask the Pilot, Patrick Smith’s Salon column that entertains as it demystifies flying, has a competitor. It’s Ask the Captain, written for USA Today by United pilot Merile Getline, who also seeks to entertain and demystify flying. Smith is a little bent out of shape, though it’s not because his turf has been invaded. “[I]t’s the name that irks me. Ask the Captain?” Smith writes in his most recent column. “I know, sour grapes, but try to feel my pain: A major U.S. newspaper chooses to run a series strikingly similar to my own column and book, using almost the identical name?” Getline tells Smith she wasn’t aware of his column, and that she’d previously been answering questions independently at her personal Web site, FromTheCockpit.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
