The more I revised, the more it grew and changed. Eventually it became an entirely new book. The framework is similar and I’ve retained some of the chapter names, but the material within is vastly different. Virtually everything has been updated or expanded in some way, and about 70 percent of the material is entirely new. The contents are drawn from more than three hundred articles and columns originally written for the online magazine Salon, beginning in 2002 under the brand Ask the Pilot. The Q&A sequences were provided mostly by my readers at Salon, to whom I am deeply grateful for their enthusiasm and encouragement over the years. I have done my best to ensure long-term timeliness of the information, but please bear in mind that commercial aviation is a landscape—or skyscape if you’d rather—of ever-shifting facts and statistics. Airlines come and go; planes are bought and sold; routes are swapped and dropped. Now and then comes a tragedy. Special thanks to my agent, Sophia Seidner, and to Shana Drehs at Sourcebooks.
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