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@AirlineFlyer

researching and writing things about airlines, airplanes, transit and travel. Co-host AvTalk podcast. Email me at Jason@airlineflyer.net

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Joined July 2009

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  2. I'm going to start putting up posters for a $50 bounty to identify and destroy whatever has been making a 24/7 high pitched noise on the border of Downtown Brooklyn & Fort Greene for days. Sounds like a bad exhaust fan belt or something.

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  3. Hello, Eccles the Ermine!

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  5. That's good. But what about transportation to the airport, security, hours inside the airport, cramped bus gates, hotels, restaurants...the list goes on. Your time on the aircraft may be relatively safe but the whole travel process has endless opportunities for COVID transmission

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  6. Here's a video from of today's departures. "Farewell to the Queens of the Skies. You will not be forgotten."

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  7. No no no, I'm not jealous of this AT ALL, . Nope, not one bit.

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  8. It feels like Airbus is being forced to play chess while Boeing is quietly playing tic-tac-toe, but I'm not convinced either of these approaches are actually wrong right now.

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  9. "...the French government was careful to tie its largesse to improvements in environmental performance for fear of angering the increasingly influential green lobby. Meanwhile, the current US administration is led by an arch-climate change denier."

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  10. Imagine thinking that tourists give a damn about the LGA AirTrain, or that building it will somehow open the floodgates to NYC tourism again. Or that business travelers will suddenly love day trips to NYC because they get to ride an AirTrain to Willets Point.

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  11. I can't believe I'm agreeing with the guy who just a few hours ago said "democracy isn't the objective" and "we’re not a democracy," but here we are...

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    American Airlines = AA ✅ British Airways = BA ✅ All Nippon Airways = NH ❓ Some airline IATA codes make perfect sense, but for some you have to dig a little deeper. Here's how some airlines got their two digit codes:

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  13. The NYC version of this awesome trend is, regrettably, not good.

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  14. It's easy to prevent the spread of COVID, says man with COVID who represents man with COVID.

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  15. Unfortunately the synchronized takeoff didn't happen, I'm assuming to the extremely typical weathe, but G-CIVB and G-CIVY have departed Heathrow one final time.

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  16. Great, we'll need it to offset the incredible debt incurred by the Trump administration

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  17. How do I turn on Screen Time and lock myself out of Twitter but only when there's a stupid debate on TV?

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  18. Delta may have retire the 737-200 from the Delta Express unit if the stock hits that $10 mark

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  19. The upper deck of a 747. Quite possibly the most civilized place on (or 34,000 feet above) earth.

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  20. Icelandair sold three 757s for $21 million, so $7m per aircraft. Apparently that's $2-3m above book value these days.

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