Business: Frontier Airlines pays $10 bonus to staff for each carry-on they reject
Dyana Villa shared a video of her experience traveling with Frontier , in which she and her friends can be seen fitting their bag into the baggage sizer. She later…
Aviation: Airlines increasing passenger count per flight
Airlines are turning to bigger planes that fit more travelers to handle strong demand. Source: Airlines answer congested airports and rising costs with bigger planes Helps reduce costs by enabling…
Follow up: Jet passenger killed by turbulence?
March 3, 2023 After the March 3d, 2023 incident, there was much publicity about a former government official killed “by turbulence” while her family flew on a private jet flight.…
Business: Amazon Prime Air drone deliveries a fiasco
Amazon blames the FAA but the reality is the technology has not yet proven itself as effective and safe. Source: Amazon Prime Air drone business stymied by regulations, weak demand…
Wrong: “They’re also at altitudes that could effect [sic] the safety of civilian air traffic”
“In the wake of that … the military fine-tunes their radar parameters to see more and of course they’re finding more. And you got these three, and they’re unidentified, they’re…
Aviation: NORAD and USAF shoot down hobby balloons
Although the club is not pointing fingers, there are suspicions among other prominent members of the small, pico-ballooning enthusiasts community. Source: Hobby Club’s Missing Balloon Feared Shot Down By USAF…
Aviation: EVTOLS may replace helicopters in near future
This is a fascinating story – EVTOLS – which sort of take the concept of a quad copter to an extreme point for human transportation – may be so versatile,…
Aviation, Climate: “The rich should pay higher fares to clean up aviation”
Oddly enough, the goal is that only the elite will be permitted to fly – while telling everyone else to curtail their carbon emissions: Rich travelers will have to pay…
Aviation: Airlines pushing to allow single pilot airline flights
Airlines and regulators are pushing to have just one pilot in the cockpit of passenger jets instead of two. It would lower costs and ease pressure from crew shortages, but…
Climate: Computer model says we need to mostly end long distance air travel
A new report released during COP27 reveals that only one scenario could possibly reduce emissions in time. Source: Bloomberg – Bloomberg Suggests we must discourage – probably through a combination…
Aviation: The real reason the U.S. has a pilot shortage?
Mentour pilot explains the background to the U.S. pilot shortage – and it may come down to union rules: How it works Legacy airlines (United, Delta, American) have high pilot…
Aviation: Electric Passenger Plane prototype makes first flight at Moses Lake, WA
Source: Prototype electric airplane takes first flight in Washington state – oregonlive.com
Aviation: Flying car start up Kittyhawk, shutting down
No explanation provided. Just 3 weeks ago, they posted a thank you to the 7 new hires that would be starting soon – that’s gotta hurt. Company had been co-founded…
Demographics: The pilot shortage (and mechanics and air traffic controllers …)
Watch the video. It’s a shortage across multiple job functions, not just pilots. Why the U.S. is running out of pilots (cnbc.com) Pilot training is time-consuming and very expensive. But…
Part 9 – Population Demographics: “Pilot shortage prompts proposals to raise retirement age, lower training hours. : NPR”
So to address the shortage, some in the industry and in Congress are calling for some big changes. Among them are raising the mandatory pilot retirement age from 65 to…