New and notes from around the interweb:
- DC metro is considering new technology to track riders in order to target ads
- In addition to the offer of 60,000 AAdvantage miles and a $99 companion ticket, the Barclays AAdvantage Aviator Red Mastercard has an offer of 60,000 miles without the companion ticket but with a $0 annual fee the first year. (HT: Doctor of Credit) I value the companion ticket more than the $99 annual fee waiver personally but others will take a different view.
- Are co-pilots needed?
- This once-Etihad Airbus A319 is way cooler than anything seen on CNBC’s Cash Pad
- Not The Onion: A new UberEats service lets you eat in a restaurant. Now Lyft has launched a service to let you drive yourself.
Lyft is trialling a car-rental service in California, the company confirmed to Business Insider this week.
The service, which works much like a traditional car-rental, is available in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. It also comes with a $40 credit to ride to and from the pickup location.
- This doesn’t even seem like a great way to smuggle since it really doesn’t scale. And who narc’d her out, anyway?
Following a tip-off, customs officials arrested a [..flight] attendant found to have brought in goods exceeding the limit of allowances to avoid tax payments. She had boarded a THAI flight from Italy.
TV Channel 3 reported that several brand-name products, such as belts and bags, were found concealed under the flight attendant’s clothing.
Ex airline captain here… wow, “are copilots ever needed?”
The fact that you would regurgitate that ridiculous idiocy shows how little you know about aviation.
It’s A TEAM.
A well rehearsed, essential synergy for multiple multiple reasons and functions.
I thought Lucky was above his station referring to airline ops, pilot skills etc
Sorry… but… wow
@Andy
During nominal situations, a single pilot is quite capable of operating an aircraft with sufficient automation in optimal conditions.
The real discussion is when things go wrong, or “off nom” as we like to say. Hell, I can take the 727 in the sim by myself and get it between point A and point B in good weather and land it in one piece. But the whole crew is there for the single engine IMC non-precision approach where the workload goes up a bit.
As a pilot and computer programmer, I can say that in a sense, the MAX problems have lead us to be a bit more cautious about just what can/should be done with technology in airplanes.
So, what happens when the single pilot expires or has significant impairment during the flight?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/05/american-airlines-pilot-dies-mid-flight
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/786215/american-airlines-pilot-dies-mid-air-before-landing-boeing-dallas-albuquerque
Admittedly, it doesn’t happen often, but what if those flights had an unfortunate ending? Would we even be talking about having one person up front if it had?
Normal workload isn’t the issue. Its all the abnormal stuff and high workloads that makes the team (two people) useful. As both major airframe vendors have shown, automation (even in normal cases) isn’t quite to a standard that I would completely trust my life to it.
The Lyft car rental is far from onion status. What’s wing with a fixed rate per day rental program with a free ride to the car!? In cities where people don’t own cars, this should be very popular.