Upgraded: Self-service air travel
It’s not for everyone (yet) but who wouldn’t want to strap on wings and jet engines and hit the skies at 186 mph? Rocket-powered Yves Rossy points the way. Click the video above to see him in action. Nuts.

Upgraded: Ryanair profits in a time of high oil prices
Continental and United may be laying off workers and cutting flights wholesale, and other airlines are folding (see: Silverjet), but EuroCheapskate Supreme Ryanair’s profits went up 20%. But they’re not completely immune from the price of oil: They predict they’ll break even, going forward, if oil were to hover around $130/bbl. Try breaking even at that price in the US of A.

Downgraded: Appeasing your eco-guilt
The U.N.’s International Civil Aviation Organization is creating a standard for carbon offsets for air travel, to create some sort of standardization to this unregulated low-information market. Good, in theory. But it’s controversial, of course. “The calculator measures only carbon dioxide emissions from burning jet fuel, and will ignore other, possibly multiplying warming effects from water vapor and nitrous oxide emissions.”

Upgraded: Non-sequitur headlines
Confusing headline: “Sector roundup: Airlines, diabetes meeting.” Give that airline a shot of insulin!