I think you can enforce this but the law needs to be very specific about what unruly is to prevent abuse of no fly lists. Verbal abuse would be difficult to define but physical contact is easy. Touch a crew member or make a verbal threat to either harm a crew member, passenger, or damage to the aircraft to me would be grounds for being put on the list.

(Written on 2021年 11月 19日)(Permalink)

Well, getting back on track (no pun intended), regardless of what Greenpeace wants, it is a better experience taking the train for short hauls. For trips that are 500-600 miles or less it is quicker to get from city center to city center on train. From Berlin to Munich it is 4 hours and 30 minutes by train. The flight is an hour but add in the time to check in and getting to and from the airport from the center of town it is pretty much a wash. You still need short haul flights for passengers to connect to other cities but a lot of travel can be switched to an efficient rail network in a more densely populated continent. (BTW it wont work here except maybe in the NE corridor)

(Written on 2021年 10月 29日)(Permalink)

It is a good article and is true. I flew Southwest today from Phoenix to SJC on a completely full 737 800. Slightly delayed by 10 minutes. This flight came from Dallas as flight 197 and then under the same number as the PHX-SJC flight it went back to Austin Texas. Prior to Dallas, Flt 197 came from Charlotte and before this Baltimore. One can see how a few weather, air space control, mechanical or other problems can completely screw up the schedules when a flight zig zags its way across the US.

(Written on 2021年 10月 14日)(Permalink)

There was no such thing as a vaccine during the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. Misinformation.

(Written on 2021年 09月 25日)(Permalink)

If masks don't work, how much influenza was there last year? Not a lot.

(Written on 2021年 09月 18日)(Permalink)

I also flew on SWA Max from PHX to SFO. Easy to tell it was a Max from looking at engines and seeing the continuous number of people boarding. I think it hold 185 passengers, maybe more than the 707s I used to fly on during the 1960s. Clean and comfortable with a well trained crew.

(Written on 2021年 08月 16日)(Permalink)

The mRNA vaccines have been in development for many years and the science behind it is not as new as you think. With new technology it takes a much shorter time to research and produce a medical product than 60 years ago when it took longer to create a polio vaccine. We live in different times now where discovery can happen quicker than in the past. It used to take 12 hours to cross the country by airplane and in less than a year it was a 5 hour journey with the advent of the jet airplane. Technology and science will shorten the timeline for lots of invention and progress.

(Written on 2021年 08月 15日)(Permalink)

A quote from Gordon Bethune " You can make a pizza so cheap that nobody wants to eat it. You can make an airline so cheap that nobody wants to fly on it."

(Written on 2021年 08月 15日)(Permalink)

Bad problem that combines human mistake with design problem. This should be a preventable accident with a design that does not allow a pin to be placed into a wrong bore located near the correct placement site. (You cannot put a diesel fuel nozzle in a gasoline tank because the nozzle size is too big to fit into a gasoline receptacle.) The bore size of the apex pin bore should be too small to allow the NLG pin to be accidentally placed. Take human error out of the equation.

(Written on 2021年 07月 17日)(Permalink)

BTW-- Have any of you seen photos of the Blue Origin rocket? What does it remind you of? I guess its fitting that Bezos will be aboard.

(Written on 2021年 07月 12日)(Permalink)