News and notes from around the interweb:
- Are plane crashes happening more frequently? Actually, no.
There were fewer accidents in Jan 2025 than ever on record pic.twitter.com/64sCdmvVce
— Maxwell Tabarrok (@MTabarrok) February 18, 2025
- Sheraton Toronto airport solicits tips for club lounge staff by telling you they do all sorts of things for you ‘beyond the food and beverage discipline’, but cannot name a single example of what. And these staff, by the way, aren’t earning ‘tipped wages’ (illegal in Ontario)
- New, private overnight train company Lunatrain wants to serve routes like Chicago – Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Nashville, Denver and Dallas; DC – Charlotte and Jacksonville; and New York – Toronto and Montreal. Fun novelty if it’s a nice product. (HT: @PFDigest)
Photo used with permission. ©2025 Lunatrain, Inc. - Youth Pastor Faces Two Years in Federal Prison For Abusive Sexual Contact of Teenage Girl On Alaska Airlines Flight
- SWISS opening premium terminal with lounges in Zurich
- 220+ pounds of cocaine seized from Hawaiian Airlines flight in New Zealand
- How planes manage the seat power demands of passengers:
I love this website pic.twitter.com/T3EOw7oDMO
— gaut (@0xgaut) February 18, 2025
The person who wrote the form for tips at the Sheraton in Toronto should use Microsoft Word’s editor or Grammarly. The plural form of concierge does not contain an apostrophe.
FYI that the Luna Train link is broken (it has an extra n in the domain).
No – you cannot lump every accident together. The mid-air colllision of a major airlines large passenger airplane with a helicopter is not the same category as a single person aircraft having mechanical issues leading to an accident. By itself – this chart means nothing. If we were looking at weather, we wouldn’t look at a year that had 100 days of a negligible amount of rain and a year that had 4 storms that completely flooded towns and say it was the least rainy year . . .
@FNT Delta Diamond Agreed. And replace “Shall” with “Should”. Stupid people writing stupid things supidly.
Interesting statistic about January’s airline accidents. But this information doesn’t seem to apply to the U.S.
Looks like the link in the Lunatrain story doesn’t work.