News and notes from around the interweb:
- Captain Sully’s take on the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crash
- 10 ideas for getting hotel deals
- Wearing a medical device at an airport? Prepare to be humiliated by the TSA
- LAX breaks ground on its $5 billion people mover I can’t even fathom getting this expensive without even being under ground.
- The effect of slot controls on airfare prices (HT: Tyler Cowen) Lifting slot controls at Newark and evaluating changes in prices offered a natural experiment though of course the airport remains gate-constrained.
- The Wall Street Journal suggests that China was first to ground the Boeing 737 MAX for reasons of international prestige. A far cry from when Boeing was setting up the country’s aviation safety system, carefully framing things as bringing China up to ‘world’ standards (versus US standards).
- The passenger who tossed coins into an airplane engine for luck is being fined $7500
@ Gary — Not a very useful list of ideas on hotel discounts if you care about elite qualifying or benefits. Even the Cit 4th Night Free is wrong, as there is no cap yet.
Sounds like an LA version of JFK’s airtrain. Yuk.
9, not 10.
To be fair, that $5B for LAX includes more than just the people mover, like intermodal facilities, consolidated rental car facility, road improvements, etc. This is a decent overview:
https://www.discoverlosangeles.com/business-services/the-landside-access-modernization-program-will-transform-lax
On the people mover, your link indicates that the enormous price includes 30 years of operation.