This Is Your Captain Speaking [TRADE PAPER ]

For everyone from frequent fliers to aviation geeks, travel buffs to nervous travelers, Captain Doug Morris tells you everything you want (and need!) to know about flight

Captain Doug Morris has been writing for his airline’s in-flight magazine for 24 years and has answered a gamut of questions.This Is Your Captain Speakingwill draw from his extensive experience and explain everything you ever wanted to know about airline travel: whether airliners have keys, why the bumps, what aircrew get up to on layovers, what’s the deal with “mile-high memberships,” and how to become a pilot. It also provides entertaining anecdotes from air travel’s unsung heroes — flight attendants. It’s the A to Z of airline travel with a twist of humor. The flight deck door will always be closed, but Doug exposes the unique inner world of aviation to the public.Captain Doug Morrisflies the B787, a.k.a. the Dreamliner, worldwide for an airline with a maple leaf emblazoned on its livery. He is a meteorologist and has written for his company’s in-flight magazine since 1998. Doug recently completed his master’s degree in Aviation and Aerospace Management at Purdue University (Indiana). He resides in downtown Toronto with his wife and has three adult children. This is his fourth book.Cracking the three-letter airport code.

When booking a flight, reading your trip’s itinerary, or looking at the tags on your checked baggage, you’ll notice three-letter codes that identify airports. Sometimes it makes sense: BOS is Boston, MIA is Miami. But how do you get MCO for Orlando? Often, especially in Canada, where every three-letter code begins with a “Y”, they are illogical abbreviations. For most of us, it is one of the mysteries of travel. I will try to dispel some of the secrecy and unravel this Da Vinci Code mystery of flight.

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