News, Events, and Info For Media

Patrick Smith has appeared on over 200 radio and television outlets, including PBS, Discovery Channel, CNN, Fox, the BBC and National Public Radio. He has been cited in dozens of print publications worldwide, from People magazine to Le Monde. He is available to speak on a wide-range of topics, including:

aircraft technical issues
safety and fear-of-flying concerns
accident analysis
crew member training, culture and lifestyle
terrorism and airport security
airport design and amenities
airfares and airline service issues
airline culture and identity
international travel

PLEASE CONTACT:
PatrickSmith@askthepilot.com

 

RECENT MEDIA APPEARANCES & EVENTS….

  • May 2013: The Moncrieff Show, Newstalk Ireland
  • May 2013: The Jim Bohannon Show
  • May 2013: WFLA radio, Tampa
  • May 2013: NBC News.com
  • May 2013: CBC Radio, Canada
  • May 2013: Fox & Friends
  • May 2013: KGO radio, San Francisco
  • March 2013: WBAL radio, Baltimore
  • March 2013: KUOW National Public Radio, Seattle
  • March 2013: Wall Street Journal Marketwatch.com
  • March 2013: WGBH Boston Public Radio
  • March 2013: Martha Stewart Living magazine
  • February 2013: New York Times.com
  • January 2013: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio show
  • January 2013: KPCC Southern California Public Radio
  • January 2013: WBZ-TV Boston
  • December 2012: National Public Radio
  • November 2012: BBC radio
  • November 2012: KCRW radio Los Angeles To the Point program
  • November 2012: WGBH Boston Public Radio
  • October 2012: Washington Post
  • September 2012: KGO radio San Francisco
  • September 2012: Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio program
  • July 2012: MSNBC.COM
  • July 2012: KGO radio San Francisco
  • May 2012: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio show
  • February 2012: National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation
  • February 2012: Boston Globe Travel Show
  • February 2012: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio show
  • December 2011: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio show
  • December 2011: WILL Illinois Public Radio
  • November 2011: The Emily Rooney Show on Boston public radio WGBH
  • November 2011: Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio program
  • September 2011: USA Today
  • September 2011: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio show
  • September 2011: Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio program
  • August 2011: KGO, radio San Francisco
  • August 2011: The Emily Rooney Show on Boston public radio WGBH
  • August 2011: Quoted in Associated Press story
  • July 2011: Cleveland Plain Dealer
  • June 2011: WSOC TV, Charlotte, NC
  • June 2011: Martha Stewart Living radio program
  • June 2011: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio show
  • May 2011: Interview with CheapFlights.com
  • May 2011: New Hampshire Public Radio
  • April 2011: MSNBC.com
  • April 2011: WILL Illinois Public Radio
  • April 2011: KGO Radio, San Francisco
  • April 2011: New England Cable News
  • March 2011: Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio program
  • February 2011: Jezebel magazine
  • February 2011: Patt Morrison Show on KPCC Southern California Public Radio
  • January 2011: The Emily Rooney Show on Boston public radio WGBH
  • January 2011: Quoted in Yahoo News (Associated Press story)
  • January 2011: WGN radio Chicago
  • December 2010: KGO radio, San Francisco
  • November 2010: Anderson Cooper’s AC 360 on CNN
  • November 2010: MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann
  • November 2010: New York Times
  • November 2010: WBAL Baltimore; KPBS San Diego; KOA Denver; WGBH Boston
  • November 2010: Live interview with CNN
  • November 2010: BBC World radio interview
  • November 2010: The Atlantic magazine
  • November 2010: KUOW Seattle Public Radio
  • November 2010: KGO Radio, San Francisco
  • November 2010: CBC Canada television interview
  • November 2010: Quoted in Associated Press story
  • October 2010: WGSO 990AM, New Orleans
  • Octotber 2010: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio travel show
  • September 2010: KCBS radio, San Francisco
  • September 2010: Interview for upcoming Woman’s Day magazine feature
  • September 2010: Two appearances on Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio show
  • September 2010: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio travel show
  • August 2010: KUOW Public Radio, Seattle
  • August 2010: Op-ed published in the New York Daily News
  • August 2010: The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC public radio, New York City
  • August 2010: quoted in The Boston Globe
  • July 2010: Interview with the Seattle Times
  • July 2010: Rudy Maxa’s World syndicated radio travel show
  • July 2010: KUOW public radio, Seattle
  • June 2010: Interviewed by Readers Digest magazine
  • June 2010: New England Cable News
  • June 2010: Slate magazine
  • June 2010: Real Simple magazine interview
  • June 2010: Latest appearance on Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio travel show
  • May 2010: Quoted by the Associated Press regarding the crash of a jetliner in Libya
  • May 2010:Women’s Health magazine interview
  • May 2010: Interview on KPCC Southern California Public Radio
  • May 2010: Interview on KGO radio, San Francisco
  • May 2010: Interview by Business Week magazine, and contributor to New York Times online air travel forum
  • May 2010: The author’s travel photos were on view as part of the annual Somerville Open Studios event. Thanks the to 200 or so guests who stopped by.
  • April 2010: Several media appearances discussing the volcanic ash cloud over Europe, including BBC, WBAL, National Public Radio’s Diane Rehm Show and CBC-TV Canada
  • March 2010: The Emily Rooney Show on Boston public radio WGBH
  • March 2010: New England Cable News
  • March 2010: Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio program
  • January 2010: Public television’s WorldFocus, Canada’s CBC radio, and WGBH Boston’s Greater Boston program
  • January 2010: Baltimore’s WBAL radio, Los Angeles public radio, and Peter Greenberg Worldwide
  • December 2009: Patrick joined acclaimed journalist William Langewiesche on WHYY’s Radio Times show, carried nationwide by NPR
  • October 2009: WNYC in New York, WBAL in Baltmore, and WGBH-TV Boston, to discuss the Northwest Airlines incident over Minnesota. Patrick’s column on the incident was quoted in the New York Times and USA Today.
  • September 2009: Interview with travel guru Rudy Maxa on KFWB Los Angeles
  • September 2009: National Public Radio’s Morning Edition
  • June 2009: CNN, The New York Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, USA Today and the Homecast Show, an internet radio program
  • June 2009: Boston’s WBZ-4 TV news
  • June 2009: KCRW California public radio To the Point program
  • June 2009: CNN, the BBC, Baltimore’s WBAL, and Minnesota Public Radio, discussing the Air France disaster. Additional interviews with the Associated Press, the Brazilian newspaper Correio Braziliense, Italian paper La Stampa, Argentina’s La Nacion, Switzerland’s Basler Zeitung, Hungary’s HVG and the UK’s Independent.
  • June 2009: KUOW, Puget Sound Public Radio
  • May 2009: Appearances on CNN and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Interviews with the New York Times, the New York Daily News, and Business Week.
  • May 2009: BBC television segment and online news story
  • May 2009: WBAL Baltimore’s Ron Smith Show, and Buffalo’s WEDG-FM Shredd and Ragan Show
  • March 2009: Patrick’s thoughts on the March, 2009 crash of a FedEx freighter plane in Japan were quoted by the Associated Press and other news sources
  • March 2009: Patrick was interviewed about the crash of USAirways flight 1549 by ABC News, Time magazine, Bloomberg News, Italy’s La Reppublica and more than 20 radio stations in the US and Canada
  • March 2009: Fifth appearance on the Peter Greenberg Worldwide radio show
  • Februrary 2009: 20th appearance WBAL’s Ron Smith Show in Baltimore
  • January 2009: Interviewed by Men’s Journal magazine for an upcoming piece on airline simulator training
  • November 2008: BBC radio’s Up All Night program
  • November 2008: Viewpoint, nationally syndicated radio program
  • November 2008: Interviewed for a National Geographic Channel documentary on conspiracy theories surrounding the September 11th attacks
  • August 2008: Aksam Daily, newspaper, Turkey
  • July 2008: Patrick’s June 14th, 2008 op-ed in the Washington Post was chosen as one of the week’s four best opinion pieces by The Week, media review magazine
  • June 2008: San Diego public radio KPBS’s These Days program
  • June 2008: Op-ed “Don’t Hate the Airlines” published in the Washington Post
  • May 2008: WGBH’s Greater Boston program with host Emily Rooney
  • April 2008: New York Times op-ed discussing aircraft groundings and maintenance scandals
  • April 2008: National Public Radio’s All Things Considered
  • February 2008: ASK THE PILOT receives a surprise endorsement by the actress Thandie Newton during a TV talk-show interview
  • January 2008: Interviewed by eight Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio affiliates to discuss an incident aboard an Air Canada jet
  • December 2007: Patrick was invited to take part in the New York Times air travel blog, “Jet Lagged,” joining several well-known writers and industry insiders. The Week media review magazine voted Patrick’s December 16th installment its favorite column of the week.
  • November 2007: National Public Radio’s Day to Day program
  • October 2007: CBC Canada’s morning radio show The Current
  • October 2007: New York Times’ Freakonomics blog
  • September 2007: Patrick appeared in an E! Network documentary about celebrities who’ve survived airplane accidents
  • September 2007: WYNC’s Brian Lehrer Show in New York City
  • July 2007: New Zealand Listener, a weekly news and entertainment magazine
  • July 2007: Washington Post Radio
  • June 2006: The story of Patrick’s visit to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was published by the Sunday Times of South Africa
  • October 2006: “Don’t Fence the Sky” op-ed published in The New York Times
  • August 2006: “Air Safety is a State of Mind” op-ed published by The Boston Globe, and reprinted in the International Herald Tribune
  • August 2006: “Flying in the Face of Fear” op-ed is published in the Glasgow Sunday Herald
  • January 2006: Patrick Smith was recognized in the Boston Globe Magazineas one of its 2005 “Best of the New”
  • March 2005: Travel with Rick Steves radio program
  • December 2004: Amazon.com selected ASK THE PILOT as its Best Travel Book of 2004, finishing number one in both Editor’s Picks and Customer Favorites
  • September 2004: Patrick’s interview with Gawker magazine can be viewed here here
  • June 2004: Patrick was interviewed in New York City for a National Geographic Channel documentary
  • February 2004: Guest appearance on National Public Radio’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me program
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