Final departure

Short hop, long layover: After making its first flight in 1963, the very first Boeing 727, now refurbished, made its final flight Wednesday from Paine Field to Seattle, where it joins the Museum of Flight’s collection.

Overcome with nostalgia, famed 727 hijacker D.B. Cooper came out of hiding and planned to commandeer the jet but missed his flight when he had to go back to his car for his sunglasses and parachute.

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Isn’t there a crying baby I can sit next to? The federal Department of Transportation has issued final regulations that ban the use of e-cigarettes on flights. The rule, the agency says, will protect passengers from unwanted exposure to aerosol fumes in the confines of the aircraft cabin.

The rule also protects passangers from having to sit next to the people impressed by their own huge clouds of vapor they exhale.

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Hi, Jack: Several U.S. airlines have submitted applications to federal authorities to offer flights to Cuba, now that direct flights will be allowed.

The airlines already are training flight attendants to smile politely when passengers demand that they “take this plane to Cuba.”

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