William J. McGee
William J. McGee is an award-winning travel journalist for Consumer Reports and the former editor of Consumer Reports Travel Letter. In 2010 the U.S. secretary of transportation chose him as the lone consumer advocate on the Future of Aviation Advisory Committee. He also writes a monthly travel column for USAToday.com and has contributed to Conde Nast Traveler, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Money, New York, Parents, Good Housekeeping, and many other magazines, newspapers, websites, and blogs. Prior to becoming a journalist, McGee spent nearly seven years in airline flight operations management; he is an FAA-licensed aircraft dispatcher and served in the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary. He earned an MFA from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Hofstra University. He lives in Connecticut.
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Attention All Passengers
- By: William J. McGee
- Narrator: Greg Itzin
- Length: 11 hours 21 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 26, 2012
- Language: English
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A Fast Food Nation for the airline industry, Attention All Passengers is a shocking and important expose revealing the real state of the “friendly skies” in which we fly. Award-winning Consumer Reports travel journalist William McGee, a... Read more
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