News and notes from around the interweb:
- If airlines have to report on-time statistics for domestic flights then flights to and from the U.S. should have to report this information, too.
- Airlines To Now Allow First Class To Whip Coach Passengers With Pool Noodles And Shout ‘Poors! Look At The Poors!’ As They Walk By (Babylon Bee) As Billy Idol once said, “since we let our first class passengers do pretty much whatever they want, here he is.”
- Pilot episode of Pan Am (2011) this show should have been so much better than it was…
- How the MGM Grand in Las Vegas processes 24 million pounds of laundry per year. (HT: @crucker)
- 5 time world surfing champ says she was ‘violated’ and ‘handled inappropriately’ by Houston airport TSA
- Who’s in charge at the Nashville airport? Airport authority lawyers and the FAA disagree amidst state takeover.
You can view on-time performance for any international flight you wish at FlightStats.com.
I’d like to have those delay figures for international flights so I can better engineer EU261 compensation eligibility.
E,G., if a flight shows as “late” 50% of the time, that means that 50% of the time it is a half hour or more late. If you book a tight but legal connection and there is passport control at the connecting point (e.g., entering Schengen), your chances of missing your connection are fairly high.
Thanks for the laundry video.
It was awesome!
And the Wall Street Journal let me watch for free!
@Tom there are services using ADS-B data sure
Transpacific flights are long and variable. Even if departing on time, the flight can be very early or 40 minutes late.
@Gary – It’s been a bit since I saw it but as both a Pan Am and history aficionado I was pretty happy with the first episode of Pan Am. It wasn’t stunning like the first episode of Breaking Bad but it did a good job IMO and not worth saying it should have been so much better. Exactly what did you dislike?
@Christian – I enjoyed the first episode! My criticism wasn’t meant to malign that episode, just that the series itself was rather middling though the period costumes and set pieces were fantastic
I don’t appreciate your giving me a link to a site that I have to subscribe to in order to view.
The site: the Nashville Tennessean in connection with your story about the Nashville airport.