Routine mail delivery for Harry Potter....

(Written on 2019年02月05日)(Permalink)

Got my ticket!. Good intro fare for SQ in J.

(Written on 2018年07月02日)(Permalink)

I took the earlier incarnation of this flight for a big birthday. Left the ground 10 min before the day and landed at 6 am the day after. My feet never touched the ground on the day of my birthday, so it didn't count. Plus, a friend sent a surprise cake onto the plane for me and the flight attendants to enjoy (alas, no candles). Best flight of my life.

(Written on 2018年05月31日)(Permalink)

Here is the view of a professional economist who doesn't have an ideological dog in this fight and who worked through the era of Fred Kahn's airline deregulation: Competitive markets "work" when there are no externalities (my behavior harms you) and there are multiple participants. Because this would be a single participant market (it's hard to believe competing technologies could be implemented), then a non-government entity could only be an efficient outcome if the government regulated prices (this would be a monopoly) and quality (a monopolist has an incentive to tinker with quality depending upon how much people are willing to pay for the service and how it is regulated). I doubt you'd see planes falling out of the sky, but it would likely end up looking like any other regulated utility. As we all know, public utilities have not been models of efficient behavior. My strong suspicion is that you'd replace one set of problems with another. Finally, there is a subtle point th

(Written on 2017年03月17日)(Permalink)

Lots of jokes about this, but there have been fatalities associated with such collisions. Given the damage, it's fortunate that the crew was able to safely reject the takeoff. Generally fences are high enough to keep animals out, but someone needs to revisit how grounds are secured.

(Written on 2017年02月16日)(Permalink)

I sure miss the Bethune-era CO. The toxic combination of bean counting executives and United's bureaucracy made a mess of it.

(Written on 2017年02月07日)(Permalink)

If they are so minimally important, perhaps paying them $15 wont break the bank and these folk can actually afford a Thanksgiving dinner... or at least a meal before they start their second daily job.

(Written on 2016年11月18日)(Permalink)

Next: "i really didnt like those noisy old 767's overhead, so I took my skeet gun and ..." Sigh.

(Written on 2016年08月31日)(Permalink)

Probably more comfortable than coach class on most US carriers. Sigh.

(Written on 2016年06月02日)(Permalink)

Here is a fundamental question: Why does TSA need to know traveler identities? We flip out when we learn that government collets metadata on phone calls, but nobody complains when TSA knwos everywhere we've flown. Screening (arguably) makes us safer. However, knowing traveler identies doesn't. I don't care if I'm sitting next to an ISIS guy on the plane as long as I'm confident he's not packing a weapon. ID enforcement just allows airlines to price discriminate by preventing ticket resale. Better to use agency resources checking bagage rather than uselessly scanning id's.

(Written on 2016年05月24日)(Permalink)