Yearly Archives

Yearly Archives for 2004.

Aviation Security Update

Bob Poole’s Aviation Security Update is always interesting. The most recent issue (dated January 7, 2004) is not yet online, but I’d expect it to be available shortly.Some useful snippets: Hassle Factor Takes Its Toll on Short-Haul Flights(…)While full-year 2003 figures are not available yet, a recent comparison of second quarter 2003 with air travel in 2000 showed that overall traffic (passengers per day) on all routes was down by four percent. How much of this overall decline is due to the economy and how much to the “hassle factor” can only be guessed at. But when Ed Smick of SH&E crunched the numbers for the top 100 short-haul markets, he found traffic there had declined by 21 percent. And for the top 10 short-haul markets, all but two showed declines of between 26 and…

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Does it take a drunken idiot to believe the TSA makes us safer?

The TSA chief for Washington Dulles was arrested on DWI charges during his shift on New Year’s Eve The chief of the Transportation Security Administration at Dulles International Airport was placed on administrative leave yesterday after being charged with drunken driving while he was on duty for a New Year’s Eve Code Orange alert, officials said. Acting federal security director Charles Brady was pulled over about 1 a.m. by a Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority police officer who saw him driving erratically on Route 28 near Dulles, airport spokeswoman Tara Hamilton said. Brady, 49, was taken to the Fairfax County jail, where he was booked at 3 a.m. He was released at 1 p.m. yesterday after being charged with driving while intoxicated, said spokesman Lt. Tyler Corey, who described Brady as “extremely cooperative” during his stay.…

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Paris Hilton orders pizza in the nude and John Ashcroft pays the tip

And other weird pizza delivery facts … “Paris Hilton” is the No. 1 fake name used by people calling for pizza deliveries, according to a survey of Domino’s Pizza drivers in Washington, D.C., released Monday by the pizza delivery chain. … U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft might want to open an investigation into these findings — he was No. 2 on the list of assumed names used by people ordering pizza. … According to the survey of 630 drivers, nine percent of people who answer the door in the nude tip more than 20 percent, compared with 2 percent of people in pajamas.

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