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 comments about the future [...]
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One of my favorite blogs, Strange Maps, posted an entry I submitted — Swiss International Airlines’s map of its American destinations, which is gloriously ill-informed about American geography. Apparently Hudson Bay is now a landmass, Sacramento is in Nevada, Memphis swapped places with Chattanooga, and . . . the errors continue. Just look at the [...]
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I recently recorded a podcast with Addison Schonland of IAG. Click here to listen!
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The Senate amendments to the FAA reauthorization bill include Section 714, which updates the law on “transporting musical instruments,” which is clearly an important issue for our elected representatives. I bet you’re on tenterhooks waiting to read this groundbreaking legislation. Here are some highlights from among the bureaucratic tedium:
“An air carrier providing air transportation shall [...]
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I was interviewed for a segment on tonight’s CBS Evening News. The “Follow the Money” segment exposed the tens of millions of dollars wasted on empty flights to the middle of nowhere.
Here are links to:
The text of the broadcast
Video of the segment
One of my posts about the problematic EAS program
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I’m traveling this weekend, so cross your fingers that US Airways doesn’t need to pull its 737s out of service. But I’m flying out of Baltimore-Washington International tomorrow at 6 am. From Washington, there are no early-morning transit options on weekends, so I’m going up to the airport tonight and crashing there. For that, I [...]
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I usually let negative comments slide off my back unless they point out an error, which I then correct. But some really get to me. When I wrote recently on the impending idiocy of starting a budget airline based in Charleston, W.Va., an idiot commented:
Also, the airlines will still be flying with oil at $100 [...]
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Today someone arrived at my blog via the translated-into-Spanish version. El política de aviación blog habla Espanol. Also, apparently my Spanish surname is Chispas.
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Posted in Evan's Reviews, tagged misc. on March 5, 2008 | Comments Off
One of the reasons aviation intrigues me is the spatial/geographical aspect of the industry, and I find resources like Airline Route Maps to be both useful and endlessly engaging.
But I want to recommend a new site I’ve been enjoying for the past few weeks: Strange Maps. The blogger posts unusual maps that he comes across. [...]
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Posted in Daily Departures, tagged history, misc. on February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
President Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963.
In honor of Presidents’ Day, enjoy a little trivia. Have I missed anything interesting in this list? Add it in the comments.
First president to fly in an airplane: Theodore Roosevelt, who flew in a Wright bros. biplane in 1910, a [...]
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