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- America vs. Europe: who overrates whom? 12:26pm Aug 24
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Not an aviation-related note, but given that many of my readers are also plugged into the travel industry, here’s an interesting diablogue between Bryan Caplan and Tyler Cowen. ...
Boo to Hot Air, which posted this headline: “Good news: Feds pulling workers away from FAA to staff exploding Cash for Clunkers bureaucracy” (I found it via Volokh.) The Hot Air post plays up the possibility that thin-on-the-ground air traffic controllers are being taken from towers to process pap...
Patrick Smith has some thoughts on the Airline Safety and Pilot Training Improvement Act of 2009. He finds good, unnecessary, and controversial in the bill. [Salon] The FAA and NATCA have a newly mediated contract; it now goes to the controllers for ratification...
Gothamist calls it “almost certainly a Swiftian satire,” but there’s something striking about the Manhattan Airport Foundation’s “plan” to convert New York’s long underused Central Park into the closest in on close-in airports. There are a...
Hi folks. It’s been a while. One reason is that I have switched day jobs! After three happy years as an editor at the American Enterprise Institute, I am now managing editor of Philanthropy magazine, which is published by the Philanthropy Roundtable. ...
Echoing Terry Maxon and Cranky, let me just say that the attempt by members of Congress to limit carry-on bag sizes by statute is a classic example of congressional kibitzing in the private business affairs of private-sector businesses. This is also, however, a bill that will go nowhere...
The Senate is set to vote on a bill that would “establish a nonprofit corporation to run a nationally coordinated travel promotion program.” [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid said the corporation “would market the U.S. arou...
I’ve written a couple posts recently for other blogs, filling in for a vacationing Dan Webb (welcome back, Dan, and congratulations on the new Airplane Geeks gig) and looking at airport competition on AEI’s new (you should subscribe) Enterprise Blog. Posted in Evan's News and Quick Takes
An obnoxious letter to the editor of USA Today: It would be irresponsible to get ahead of evidence [in the AF447 investigation], but important factors are emerging...
The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing today to review several nominations in its purview, including FAA administrator-designate J. Randolph Babbitt and DOT deputy secretary-designate John Porcari. Opening statements are going on now...
Retired air traffic controller and blogger Don Brown had a great item yesterday. “President Obama’s budget includes cutting a ‘long-range navigation system’. . . . It took me a day or two to figure out they were talking about LORAN — Long-Range Aid to Navigation. Now, you...
Matt Phillips digs up a 2006 PLoS Medicine article by John S. Brownstein, Cecily J. Wolfe, and Kenneth D...
A thorough account of an ill-thought-out idea. [WSJ] The U.S. Department of Transportation will make its decision on antitrust immunity for core Oneworld partners American Airlines, British Airways, and Iberia by November...
The outbreak and rapid spread of the H1N1 swine influenza virus in Mexico and now the United States puts policymakers and business leaders in a difficult position vis-a-vis air travel...
I recently found on my computer this photo taken during a trip to Gibraltar in 2005: This is the barrier where the sole road into Gibraltar crosses the airport’s runway. ...
