Wing Tips
by Allen Klein
Hardback, 150 pages
Wings Books/Random House Value Publishing
Book Summary:
This book will show you how to deal with airline
delays, cancellations, jet lag, long lines, lost
luggage, mushy meals, cranky kids, crummy service-and
still keep smiling.
A Word from
the Author:
While writing Wing Tips, I traveled over
100,000 per year. The sometimes entertaining,
sometimes educational stories and information in this
book came from my own experience as well as from
other seasoned travelers and airline personnel. All
of them contributed to a book that will teach you,
believe it or not, how to be happier airline
passenger.
Table
of Contents
Prologue: If I'm
Flying the Friendly Skies, Why Am I So Unhappy?
PART I
Get Ready for
Take-Off
Chapter 1: Common
Sense
Chapter 2: Sense of Humor
Chapter 3: Sense of Adventure
Chapter 4: Choosing a Travel Agent
Chapter 5: Choosing a Flight
Chapter 6: Choosing a Seat
Chapter 7: Cheap Travel
Chapter 8: Cheaper Travel
Chapter 9: Why Do You Think They Call It Luggage?
Chapter 10: Take, (or Don't Take), Me Along
PART II
Off and Skipping
Chapter 11: Get
Me to the Airport on Time
Chapter 12: All Airports are Not Created Alike
Chapter 13: To Check or Not to Check...That is the Question
Chapter 14: The Zen of Flying
PART III
Up, Up and Away
Chapter 15: How
to be Comfortable While Being Confined
Chapter 16: Let Me Entertain Me
Chapter 17: Travel Broadens (or, You Are What You Eat)
Chapter 18: Be Fit While You Sit
Chapter 19: A Crash Course in Airline Safety
Chapter 20: Jet Lag: Eat, Wash or Smell It Away?
Epilogue:
Beyond the Blue Horizon
Sample
Selection:
If
you are looking for a laugh during stressful
travel moments, seek out some children. The
funniest lines often come out of the mouths of
babes.
Comedian Michael Pritchard, for example, once saw
a child waiting to greet his mother who was
emerging from the jetway. With his father
standing next to him, the child bellowed,
"Hi Mom. While you were gone nobody slept
with dad."
One time, when I was standing in line to be
re-ticketed, I couldn't help but overhear the
conversation of two children. One of them turned
to the other and in a very loud voice shouted,
"Aren't you pissed at the airlines?"
Not only did they give the adults around them a
good belly laugh, but they expressed exactly what
most of us were feeling.
