I just booked a one-stop flight from ABE to ILM via PHL--the first leg to PHL is a bus... I looked at just driving to PHL to do the non-stop flight to ILM, but it was $100 more than the one-stop with the bus... That $100 can pay for a few bloody Maries in the airport bar during that 90-minute layover at 8am!

(Written on 2022/05/11)(Permalink)

Maybe they don't want to take their toys home, in case things go "sideways" in Russia where they might get broken...

(Written on 2022/04/17)(Permalink)

Nor are the foreign owned aircraft leased to Russian airlines, but it looks like Russia is about to "take" all of them (though I'm sure if that happens, non will ever fly internationally again, otherwise Airplane Repo will be making a big comeback... See this Squawk about it: https://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular/88271/Russia_proposes_registering_leased_planes_as_airlines_property

(Written on 2022/03/12)(Permalink)

Aka, state approved theft.

(Written on 2022/03/12)(Permalink)

Rebuilt doesn't equal repaired... Just like a house that is rebuilt after a fire, you start over from scratch with a new frame...

(Written on 2022/03/05)(Permalink)

I think the truly realistic ones were the first episodes with Nick Popovich's company... the later stuff became mostly "reenactments".

(Written on 2022/03/05)(Permalink)

I thought it did a good job of stationary balancing while trying to talk her out of the secure area...

(Written on 2022/02/19)(Permalink)

The only way we'll have electric aircraft capable of replacing Jet-A in commercial aircraft will be if we ever get compact fusion generators to make the electricity on the fly... that'd mean everyone flying around with something that could blow up a small town on board, but even fictional, petrol-free societies have this risk (how many shuttlecraft had reactors failures on Star Trek and light up like a nova?).

(Written on 2021/11/29)(Permalink)

Frequent fliers should already have PreCheck which has additional benefits (not removing shoes or belts, leaving laptops and TSA-approved liquids and gels in bags). This B-FAST doesn't vet who you are--it just gets you to the head of the "regular" line...

(Written on 2021/11/27)(Permalink)

Pre-check is only good for 5 years. That being said, if you get Global Entry, you get PreCheck included. Yea, it's $100 for 5 years versus the $70/$85 fee for PreCheck only, but you get the bonus of expedited service at passport control (and at Newark, they have a Global Entry line for luggage checks too... don't recall if JFK did...).

(Written on 2021/11/27)(Permalink)