Boeing’s very public series of embarrassing malfunctions have been analyzed and debated at length and explained quite comprehensively by individuals with far more expertise in the airplane business than me. But one need not know anything about aeronautics to understand…
You can see Hanger One from Highway 101 as you come to the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. It dwarfs NASA’s Moffett Field, and the closer you get, the more massive it appears. The giant domed structure, now being…
A LATAM Airlines jet flew into severe turbulence high above the western Pacific on March 11. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner plunged like an overripe coconut. Although the 263 passengers and nine cabin crew members landed safely, dozens were hurt, and 13 were hospitalized. Doctors treated 10 passengers and…
If there is one qualification United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby can safely add to his resume, it’s “woke.” On Thursday, a 2010 video of Kirby performing drag at a U.S. Airways Halloween party went viral after it was posted by…
Summer travel season is about to ramp up, putting significant pressure on America’s airline industry. However, airlines are already feeling the heat of the Biden administration, caught squarely in the crosshairs of its zealous “big is bad” approach to competition…
Let’s begin with a major boost the flying public received in 1976, albeit a privilege enjoyed by a tiny fraction of fortunate flyers: the first commercial regular service on an SST (supersonic transport). The Concorde was a joint venture of…
A recent newspaper article lamented the end of what it called the “Golden Age of Travel” having ended with the pandemic, airport, and train station chaos, and soaring costs: Just imagine a world in which, almost overnight, the transport system…
I’m looking for a guy I may have left without offspring. It happened a few weeks ago. It was on one of those flights to which I seem to be treating myself quite a lot recently, from Madrid to Galicia,…
At the turn of the last century, cars were made to order, one at a time. “Body by Fisher” — some will remember — meant literally that. The body was made by Fisher, which began as a builder of coaches…
