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 News and Quick Takes, tagged airports, humor, misc., travel on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a air-travel problem for the mathematically inclined:
Suppose you are trying to get from one end A of a terminal to the other end B. (For simplicity, assume the terminal is a one-dimensional line segment.) Some portions of the terminal have moving walkways (in both directions); other portions do not. Your walking speed is a [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged humor on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Brett Snyder of the Cranky Flier has put up a variation on Aviation Daily’s annual satire issue, which has sadly been canceled this year. At any rate, you can enjoy some first-rate aviation in-jokes here. Sample headlines: “American Pilots Fight for Return to 1934 Wages with Adjustments,” “US Airways to Charge Passengers for Smooth Landings,” [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged aerospace, humor, misc. on December 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lately, I’ve been reading LOLFed — the fun way to stay on top of the financial crisis. Today, on the heels of the leaking of Airbus’s dossier on the Boeing 787 and yet another round of 787 delays (deliveries pushed to 2010), LOLFed “reports” on some advice for Boeing chief James McNerny: “McNerney, upon calling [...]
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 alitalia, humor on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
. . . but they apparently have advocates in high places.
(H/T: Things with Wings)
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged aerospace, congress, humor, military on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Government Accountability Office is expected to rule by Thursday on Boeing’s protest over the Air Force’s decision to go with the Northrop Grumman/EADS tanker. Boeing is desperate for the $40 billion contract, but the Air Force insists that the Northrop Grumman proposal is superior.
But Congressman Norm Dicks had the best line of the day: [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged air traffic control, delays, dot, faa, humor on June 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
When stories like this come through my reader, I tend to ignore them — after all, opening military airspace to passenger traffic has a negligible impact on congestion. The last thing I need to do is read more high-ranking officials’ vapid statements, like the president’s last fall: “We’ve got a problem. We understand there’s a [...]
Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes, tagged humor, travel on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
See this and other revenue-generating strategies airlines might employ in this week’s edition of The Onion.
Southwest’s Kelleher gives Lindbergh Lecture
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged business, history, humor, mergers, misc., regulation, southwest on May 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Herb Kelleher, the legendary founder of Southwest Airlines, proponent of low fares, and friend of deregulation, delivered the Charles A. Lindbergh Memorial Lecture tonight at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. He reflected on his long career in aviation, on the fundamentals of Southwest, and offered a few [...]
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