In its reply it defends its overbooking policy, which "helps us avoid flying with empty seats, and means we can keep the cost of our fares down".
So our brothers and sisters from Unite the Union, with whom we'd already formed an alliance, provided the USW with information about Timet to help us in bargaining and flew from the UK to join us in a rally at the plant gates.
We now have smartphones and laptops to distract us while we fly, to help us forget how crazy it is that we're inside a flying canister, immobilized and surrounded by strangers.
"The idea that going down this track is going to help us win the general election flies in the face of the evidence.
Experiments on fruit flies could help us to understand how defecation works in humans and to develop new treatments for disease.
In the future, these models of motion processing may help us understand how biological details of the fruit fly's visual circuits help it to estimate motion.
But it also helps us understand that flying across more time zones can sometimes be easier than traveling across fewer.
They were the ones who helped us to almost literally fly, and the ones who would catch us when we fell.
