And AA shares have been targeted by some of those Robinhood armchair investors, driving up the price to profit from short sellers who see the bankruptcy coming eventually. The only reason to sell two tickets for less than the price of just one of those tickets, is to take passengers away from the competition. Do it often enough and you put the competition out of business. There are laws against that, but they are not enforced.

(Written on 2021/01/31)(Permalink)

Broken at Exeter = Brexeter?

(Written on 2021/01/24)(Permalink)

You know it's bad when even Sweden doesn't want your travelers. On the other hand, this might be another example of failure to listen to scientists. As the NYT reports, The estimate of greater transmissibility — British officials said the variant was as much as 70 percent more transmissible — is based on modeling and has not been confirmed in lab experiments, Dr. Cevik added. “Over all, I think we need to have a little bit more experimental data,” she said. “We can’t entirely rule out the fact that some of this transmissibility data might be related to human behavior.” In South Africa, too, scientists were quick to note that human behavior was driving the epidemic, not necessarily new mutations whose effect on transmissibility had yet to be quantified.

(Written on 2020/12/21)(Permalink)

"carry 700lb (212kg) of equipment" ... Well, the BBC may not have to worry about converting imperial to metric, after the first of the year.

(Written on 2020/12/12)(Permalink)

Turbulence in a teapot. The FAA is waiting for FDA approval. In the UK, people with allergies (medicine or food) are already being advised not to get the Pfizer German/Turkish shot, and that's just after a day of use. An interesting question is whether British and other European pilots from countries that already have approval, are allowed to fly to US airports. Not to mention, those with Russian and Chinese injections.

(Written on 2020/12/09)(Permalink)

The professionalism of this blog is illusrated by its use of the word "stewardess".

(Written on 2020/12/05)(Permalink)

"260 American Airlines’ specialists divided into three shifts are working round the clock, seven days a week" Can I ask for one that wasn't worked by day-shift guys at 3 a.m. ?

(Written on 2020/12/04)(Permalink)

"Airlies" in headline a Freudian slip?

(Written on 2020/11/24)(Permalink)

Depends on how you round. Biden is at 49.51%, Trump at 49.23%. Fortunately the state doesn't need a runoff for Electors. The margin is only about 14,000 votes (maybe less now that some votes were found in a red county). Delta has 33,000 employees in Georgia. Enough to make a difference.

(Written on 2020/11/17)(Permalink)

Delta is headquartered in Georgia. Tell me again how they voted. (Or are they still counting?)

(Written on 2020/11/17)(Permalink)