For some reason I was looking at air traffic in the Southeast yesterday (mostly Florida and Georgia) and was wondering why traffic looked so weirdly light. I now know!

(Written on 2021年01月05日)(Permalink)

They have purchased very well-maintained aircraft

(Written on 2021年01月01日)(Permalink)

"Torrid" is an odd adjective to use, since it means "hot and dry". I would use "opportunistic" instead.

(Written on 2020年12月16日)(Permalink)

I used to live in Chico, CA and the U-2 was a familiar sight since they are based at Beale AFB in Marysville.

(Written on 2020年12月12日)(Permalink)

"In the case of the Airbus tariffs, the Trump administration appears to have created the very loophole Delta may be using." In this case, Delta would be dumb to not do this. No one volunteers to pay extra taxes.

(Written on 2020年11月17日)(Permalink)

In my studied opinion, as an accountant, this would be tax avoidance, not tax evasion. Tax avoidance is perfectly legal. However, technically, it is not a tax, but a tariff.

(Written on 2020年09月19日)(Permalink)

Different missions.

(Written on 2020年09月16日)(Permalink)

Wow - this is good news and perhaps a necessary acquisition due to the 777 retirements. The article spoke of a number of A330-900's being held in Toulouse, but didn't say how many.

(Written on 2020年09月16日)(Permalink)

No - just international. Having spent time in the UAE, there is not much reason to have a domestic network. Besides Dubai and Abu Dhabi, there is an international airport in Sharjah, but small and international only. Also the Sharjah airport is about an hour drive from the Dubai airport.

(Written on 2020年09月05日)(Permalink)

Uh, no - the MD11 came many years later and it was a different aircraft altogether, though it looked somewhat similar.

(Written on 2020年08月19日)(Permalink)