GRIOTS REPUBLIC - AN URBAN BLACK TRAVEL MAG - OCTOBER 2016
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
In the October Issue of Griots Republic we cover GLOBAL DESIGN! From interior to sound design we plug into the subjects that interest urban travelers. Black Travel Profiles include: Brooklyn Circus Founder, Ouigi Theodor. Up In Air Life Founder, Claire Soares. Fashion Influencer, Jason Andrew and Blogger A.V Perkins of A.V Does What. This issue also includes interviews with International D.J., DJ Super Nova and street artist and designer Jerry Gant. This is Black Travel!
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As travelers we often have questions<br />
we’d like to ask the airlines, but in the<br />
process of rushing to our next destination<br />
we let the questions go and<br />
simply comply. Recently, I took the<br />
opportunity to ask flight attendants<br />
and pilots about three of the travel<br />
questions that bugged me the most.<br />
WHY MUST I TURN MY CELL<br />
PHONE OFF?<br />
It has been estimated that nearly 40%<br />
of flyers do not bother to turn off or<br />
put their phones on airplane mode.<br />
Now, if you’ve ever made the “mistake”<br />
of not turning your phone off<br />
in flight, you quickly learned that in<br />
most cases, your phone will not work<br />
once airborne, so why do you have to<br />
turn it off in the first place? Are the<br />
flight attendants just being big ole<br />
meanies? Well, that could be true but<br />
they are simply doing as instructed.<br />
The Federal Aviation Administration<br />
(FAA) mandates all cellular phones<br />
and personal electronic devices be<br />
turned off as they are simply unsure<br />
how much they can/will interfere<br />
with airplane communications and<br />
the onus is on the airlines to prove<br />
that they do not. So, why haven’t the<br />
airlines put us out of our collective<br />
misery and proven it once and for<br />
all? Well, it seems that in order to be<br />
released from that FAA restriction,<br />
they would have to test all (and that<br />
means all) devices to ensure there<br />
are no negative impacts to ground<br />
and air communications which would<br />
prove to be quite expensive. Frankly,<br />
it’s just easier and cheaper on the airline<br />
for you to hear and obey.<br />
WHY IS AIRLINE FOOD<br />
SO DARN AWFUL?<br />
Many of us have been seated next<br />
to the passenger who has pulled out<br />
their bag lunch. We scoffed at them