Posted in 1, tagged airports, delays, humor on July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gothamist calls it “almost certainly a Swiftian satire,” but there’s something striking about the Manhattan Airport Foundation’s “plan” to convert New York’s long underused Central Park into the closest in on close-in airports.
There are already aviation buffs out there saying “oh please, oh please” — if only to experience an approach that would rival runway [...]
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, delays, Deregulation 2.0, faa, labor, politics on November 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If you’re a regular reader of the Aviation Policy Blog (and I hope you are; the best way to keep up to date is to subscribe to my feed), you’re well aware of how aviation is playing out in the 2008 election (or the extent to which it isn’t). In today’s Wall Street Journal, “Middle [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged delays, humor, security on October 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the blogs I read for fun is the Comics Curmudgeon, whose author, Josh Fruhlinger, has a love/hate relationship with the daily funnies (or not-so-funnies). Today, Mary Worth — a comic I shunned as boring in my childhood, only later to realize that it is boring for adults, too — takes on airport security [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged air traffic control, airports, BAA, canada, competition, delays, Deregulation 2.0, dot, europe, faa, regulation, southwest, travel on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My story in The American magazine is now up on its website. Here’s the lede: “Thirty years ago this October, the era of affordable mass air travel was unleashed. Why was this revolution stalled, and what can be done to finish it?”
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, Aviation08, congress, delays, dot, environment, faa, politics on October 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Top policy advisers to Barack Obama and John McCain differed on key transportation issues at a forum in Washington this morning, but they agreed, in the words of McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin, when it comes to transportation, “the ratio of importance to discussion on the campaign trail is high.”
Mortimer Downey, Obama’s senior transportation adviser and [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged air traffic control, airports, delays, southwest on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
DALLAS — I had the chance to talk today with Bob Montgomery, Southwest’s vice president for properties, about the challenge of congested aviation infrastructure. He said that the problem is not truly a national problem; instead, there are “four or five cities” with the kind of congested airspace, runways, and ramp space that causes snarls. [...]
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged budget airlines, business, consumer advocacy, delays, network airlines, open skies, southwest, travel on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
DALLAS — Our lunchtime entertainment here at Southwest headquarters was provided by a panel of five airline industry thought leaders who offered their thoughts on the future of the industry. Rick Seaney of FareCompare.com kicked off the discussion. Some of the trends he noted include a “decline in human interaction” through the increasing utility of [...]
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, airports, Aviation08, congress, delays, dot, faa, labor, politics, safety, security, small communities, tsa on September 8, 2008 | 6 Comments »
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First of all, big props to Obama and his campaign team for actually having a transportation agenda [PDF]. The McCain campaign devotes a whole section to manned space exploration but can’t spare a word for aviation. So, to Obama, an A for effort.
Now let’s dig [...]
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged 2008, delays, Deregulation 2.0, dot, faa, regulation, travel on July 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters usually gets a bad rap in aviation policy circles. Even though her professional background is in highways, she ought to be better versed in aviation than this or this suggests. But I am very unimpressed with her latest initiative, announced Tuesday in Atlanta: a comprehensive national transportation policy. It is based [...]
US Airways on perimeter restrictions at DCA, LGA
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged airports, congress, delays, us airways on March 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
TEMPE — On most policy issues at the national level, airlines work through their trade association, ATA. Yesterday, I asked C. A. Howlett, US Airways senior VP for public affairs, about what issues he works on that the ATA does not get very involved in. “The biggest issue that is US Airways-specific is the Reagan [...]
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