Some people are habitual complainers, but the majority of individuals who call in only do so once.

45-year-old Reginald Gaskin was found unharmed.

Airplane food is generally terrible. (Duh.) But flying with Delta Airlines has one culinary highlight: Biscoff cookies, also known by the Dutch as speculoos. The butter cookies are heavily composed of brown sugar with cinnamon and cloves, making for what is best described as a crumbly, super caramelized gingerbread cookie.

Of all the things required to operate an airport safely and efficiency, a competent air traffic controller ranks right up there with a high concentration of Cinnabons inside each terminal. (After all, when you’re charging so much for checked luggage, it’s vital that irate passengers be satiated with melty frosting and cinnamon, lest an uprising take place.) But having someone to tell pilots when and where they can land planes is very important indeed. That’s why Reagan National Airport will install a second controller during overnight hours, after the first one apparently went missing from the post early Wednesday morning.

I don’t know about you, but every time I drive a car somewhere and use the trunk, I always double check that I have the keys in my hand before I slam the door. That kind of cautious checking probably would have served one baggage handler well yesterday, as he closed the cargo hold door with another handler inside at National Airport.

While we realize that many of you will be enjoying the empty streets of D.C. this weekend, for many Washingtonians, it’s time to get on the road, the tracks or the air and make the annual late November pilgrimage. It inspired us to highlight a cross-section of Flickr pool‘s tremendous collection of photographs capturing the experience of traveling in and around the District.

UPDATE: Via ARLnow, check out some video recently posted to YouTube of the actual crash. It was about 9:45 this morning when Alert DC let the city know that eight vintage bi-planes were set to fly into National Airport at some point between 10 and 10:30 a.m. Little did we know at the time that Washington Post reporter Ashley Halsey III was a passenger on one of them, and that the plane would soon…

The AP reports that a Continental Express flight heading from Houston to Dulles earlier today was diverted to North Carolina after “a threatening message was written on a bathroom mirror.” The plane ended up landing at Piedmont Triad International Airport near Greensboro without incident, and all passengers safely exited the plane. No word on what the message said, but a local CBS news affiliate reported that authorities described it as “a bomb threat.”…

JetBlue announced today that it will start serving National Airport later this year. The airline already serves the D.C. area’s other two airports, BWI and Dulles. Starting in November, JetBlue plans to offer at least eight daily departures from DCA to select East Coast destinations. No word yet on what those routes will be, but White Plains, JFK, Boston, Syracuse, Buffalo, Burlington and Portland, ME are all likely candidates. JetBlue’s access to National Airport…

Photo by andertho No-frills flight purveyor Southwest Airlines has been hoping to move in to DCA for a long time now, but deals between other airlines on landing and takeoff slots have thus far prevented them from going forward. Now, as the Post reports, they’re asking the feds to get involved:On Monday, the low-cost, Texas-based carrier asked the U.S. Department of Transportation to force US Airways and Delta Air Lines to auction off 14…