1. No one said anything about public housing. I do not think those high rise building need to be public. And it is exactly people with the most progressive kind of believes that oppose anything other than public. 2. After a place get allowed to build higher buildings then the land will worth more. ...
Jump to postWith same land it is possible to allow more people to live in by building high rise buildings But somehow some people in the US think highrise are for rich people and oppose building them. As a result there are only enough housing for rich people to stay in the city More like 1. Once you’re investe...
Jump to postCapitalism plus local government zoning regulations. This is what you get. You run out of space and you have more money chasing after fewer resources. Also, such trends are not new in San Francisco. The media keeps talking about the "mass exodus" from California but houses are still being...
Jump to postCapitalism plus local government zoning regulations. This is what you get. You run out of space and you have more money chasing after fewer resources. Also, such trends are not new in San Francisco. San Francisco ran out of space 60 years ago. It's surrounded by water on three sides. I get how peop...
Jump to postI have seen American Crime Story. However I think the more thoughtful and less sensationalized series is the OJ: Made in America docuseries. I don't fully buy the prosecution was hopelessly incompetent. Darden indeed screwed the pooch and may have indeed been baited by the defense as was suggested ...
Jump to postSadly his acts of murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Rob Goldman but the failure to criminally convict him due to a number of culture and racial issues, had the money to buy a great defense, terrible mistakes by the Judge and Prosecution, will be what he will be mostly remembered for. Sadly too...
Jump to postSadly his acts of murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown and Rob Goldman but the failure to criminally convict him due to a number of culture and racial issues, had the money to buy a great defense, terrible mistakes by the Judge and Prosecution, will be what he will be mostly remembered for. Sadly too...
Jump to postCapitalism plus local government zoning regulations. This is what you get. You run out of space and you have more money chasing after fewer resources. Also, such trends are not new in San Francisco. San Francisco ran out of space 60 years ago. It's surrounded by water on three sides. I get how peop...
Jump to postCapitalism plus local government zoning regulations. This is what you get. You run out of space and you have more money chasing after fewer resources. Also, such trends are not new in San Francisco.
Jump to postIs Montego Bay doing well on its routes to other cities or it just CLE that has light loads? Jamaica is still a level 3 "Reconsider Travel" on the State Dept's advisory system--and Montego Bay is not a walled-off paradise from the rest of Jamaica: Jan. 23, 2024: "Country Summary: Vio...
Jump to postMaybe Allegiant can take over the ACY base, they got very little presence in the northeast corner of the US. They got a thing for secondary airports next to the major airports such as SFB instead of MCO and AZA instead of PHX. ACY can be their alternative to PHL and maybe even EWR. And if they're e...
Jump to postBeyonce uses 3000 writers and producers. She isn't that wealthy for someone of her stature because of this, her worldwide tours are huge moneymakers though. I was a bit surprise at this, she hasn’t even broken into the top 10 highest grossing tours of all time list. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li...
Jump to postitely used to mess with Shania Twain. And she grew up in a small town in Ontario, Canada! Is that appropriation too, since she's not American? I also hear hip hop and pop influences in Beyonce's album. Like you said pop culture is annoying when someone gets so big that the masses decide they are in...
Jump to postitely used to mess with Shania Twain. And she grew up in a small town in Ontario, Canada! Is that appropriation too, since she's not American? I also hear hip hop and pop influences in Beyonce's album. Like you said pop culture is annoying when someone gets so big that the masses decide they are in...
Jump to postjohns624 wrote:I think that's she's just being an opportunist and is trying to reach a new audience to make more money.
First thing which came to my mind is I guess cultural appropriation only runs one way. I think people who say this are feeling some type of way and don't know the true history of Country music. Country music comes from the American South and Southwest and has both European and African folk influenc...
Jump to postThe market concentration has a specific cause: CGH. No airline excels in Brazil in the long run without considerable slot holdings at CGH. Say more… CGH is located downtown in one of the largest metropolises on earth--and the largest outside of Asia. Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, by a go...
Jump to postGary Indiana, Chicago's "Other airport!" Chicago Rockford International Airport says hi. I used to live closer to RFD than ORD and never considered it. Gary doesn’t work because it’s on the complete opposite side of Chicago compared to where the targeted market lives. MDW is a quick dash ...
Jump to postPerhaps they should look at starting YYZ-SEA, now that Alaska Airlines is on the route. Demand for China/Greater Bay Area routes from YYZ is extremely high. That, and if they can also time their major West Coast (YVR/SFO/LAX/SAN/ONT/BUR) and various EWR/JFK-SEA flights to connect to a theoretical S...
Jump to postPerhaps they should look at starting YYZ-SEA, now that Alaska Airlines is on the route. Demand for China/Greater Bay Area routes from YYZ is extremely high. That, and if they can also time their major West Coast (YVR/SFO/LAX/SAN/ONT/BUR) and various EWR/JFK-SEA flights to connect to a theoretical S...
Jump to postAustrian:
763 -- VIE-ORD
Air France:
744 --BOS-CDG-BOS
Delta:
763 -- ATL-LGW/DUS
VIE/PRG-ATL
764 -- ATL-SVO-ATL
77E -- CDG-ATL
Icelandair
763 (technically EuroAtlantic) -- BOS-KEF
757 -- KEF-ORD
Lufthansa
A343 -- CLT-MUC
Why can't they just build more gates then? It's really not that easy given the land they have and who is going to pay for it? Delta, if they want more gates. Delta is an airline that is usually willing to pay for airport upgrades if it can benefit them. SeaTac footprint is pretty much built out. Th...
Jump to postIt’s obnoxious. They should’ve put the kibosh on Monica Seles but they didn’t—particularly blew my mind when she would grunt when hitting an hack forehand. Lorena’s it her father told her to say “bounce-hit” when he was teaching her, and it turned into what we know. And now the toothpaste is out of ...
Jump to postAnother thing to keep in mind when trying to lose weight: The more extreme and/regimented way you lose the weight, and the quicker you lose it, the more likely it is that the weight will come back, and your body will add a few more pounds just as a safety measure. We tend to fall off our routine as ...
Jump to postPossibly a stretch, but WN flies to LAS from: LAX BUR Ontario SNA LGB and really stretching it would be Santa Barbara. Southern California may be the only metro area in the U.S. with so many readily served airports. NYC isn’t equal because LGA has the perimeter rule and the airlines have divided up ...
Jump to postI find it remarkable that there has been no SEA-HKG nonstop since CX dropped it in 2020 after lasting barely a year, I think. Although the US-Mainland market is completely unrecognizable post-COVID, suffering from major political posturing, even before CX's 2019 launch I have long been surprised th...
Jump to postNoshow wrote:Thank you. I wasn't aware of the supplier outsourcing back then. Today with no more Soviet Union many more former domestic suppliers are not domestic anymore.
OK, just saying the research end of medicine produces proportionally more travel than healthcare and the CCF supports a lot of research. If it's only 3 pax a day, that's a 1% boost to existing numbers to Europe, for example. More research (CCF plans to grow by 10,000 over the next few years) means ...
Jump to postI don't know how you define a trickle; but collaborative research projects (as opposed to actual hands-on healthcare) will individually produce a decent exchange - a ten-scientist project (20 people total at both ends) could reasonably produce 4-6 round trips annually. I don't know where you're get...
Jump to postI agree the idea that CCF traffic is anything other than a trickle between the facilities is a fantasy. And I can confidently confirm that. The legal reality medicine ensures that the facilities are overwhelmingly locally staffed. I don't know how you define a trickle; but collaborative research pr...
Jump to postThere is more to CLE than the companies you mention, which are regularly rehashed on this thread (CCF, Goodyear, etc.) that have a good amount of international demand, but not one big shot like P&G. The fact of the matter is at 10-11mm pax, CLE should have a daily transatlantic flight. I have o...
Jump to postI think it’s time for new laws to curb this anti-consumer practice that we used to call price gouging. We need to bring these runaway horses back to the stable before more decide to make a run for it and make our lives even more miserable. The market will handle this without the need for additional...
Jump to postWell, I wonder if this helps explain it:
https://www.news.com.au/travel/24yo-air ... fc238e2652
It almost sounds like the user is more upset that they weren’t informed of the reason for the delay when they may have been able to do so. One has to ask the the A.net poster isn’t aware of ULCCs and their bare bones operation.
Jump to postI’m not following your “where bags are tagged“ comment, because if someone was taking two separate flights, i.e. Chicago to LAX for example and then taking a Qantas flight from LAX to Brisbane. How would the first airline know that? That’s what I’m not getting. Most of the majors have what are call...
Jump to postI apologize if this is a dumb question, but how would one airline know how many of their passengers fly to a different location on a different airline? Always wondered this. TIA Airlines often interline, or have their passengers ticketed via a travel agent/online agency that may itself issue two se...
Jump to postI still cannot believe Lufthansa has those old screens even in their 748s. I'm hopeful their A350 and 789, neither of which I've flown, have better screens. This is funny. It bought back memories of flying home to BHX from DTW on a LH A330 ... this was back in the mid 00's and I chose LH over NW as...
Jump to postThat's my question. If UA can only make LAX-BNE work on a seasonal basis with a large hub at LAX, and with QF already on the route (not to mention AA's upcoming DFW-BNE service), I'm not sure what DL's thinking here. My guess is that they view MEL as too saturated, because that would be the obvious...
Jump to postAirAsia has plans….. https://en.traicy.com/posts/202402224926/ A330neo to London, Paris, Amsterdam, Bratislava, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Cairo, Nairobi, Cape Town, Milan, Stockholm, Manchester, Moscow New York, Miami, Toronto via Europe San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver via Japan. Bratislava soun...
Jump to postIn case of Edward VIII, from my understanding, the legal dodges deployed were a) there was no coronation, so no coronation vows were broken b) post-abdication -- which wiped out all his previous titles, he was created a Duke of Windsor.-- hence, to a degree, a new person was legally established -- ...
Jump to postRegardless of intent, a likely reality is that Singapore may lose connecting traffic to opportunistic neighbors unless all of the countries around Singapore institute a similar policy. If I were Vietnam, I'd be looking at my airport infrastructure right now. KL, perhaps, but Malaysia's politics may ...
Jump to postbennett123 wrote:Which people are still being tested?.
If the move is to isolation based on symptoms, what is the US doing now?. Until yesterday it had been based on the result of a positive test as opposed to symptomatic. This wasn’t entirely unreasonable at the outset in 2020 but at this point it’s not a helpful policy and I’m glad to see it change. ...
Jump to postImagine what a powerhouse this region would be if Akron worked in support of Cleveland instead of against it. Akron doesn't work against Cleveland, it works for Akron, and by extension Canton. I agree a singular airport would be greatly beneficial, and if that airport was located more centralized, ...
Jump to postWhat I find odd here is that people seem to forget that the distance between CLT and IAD is 279 nm. I get that Virginia is not the South, but IAD could serve 90% of the connective traffic that CLT does if UA wanted to make it a giant connecting hub. That's not that close. That's the same distance b...
Jump to postNew service is always a plus. The extra upside is most of those flights are less than three hours…which means I could tolerate them!
Jump to postIt is estimated that well over 1 million passengers currently drive to ATL. BHM’s current issue is competitive service. It is a Top 50 DMA, but sits 85th in passenger volume for that reason. Why none of the ULCC’s don’t serve BHM remains a mystery. They would be very strong there. Same dynamic at w...
Jump to postBHM - Best central location between IAH and IAD. Very close to ATL. Would likely recapture much of the 1/3 of potential O&Ds from ATL. Only one main runway though, and tight footprint. Could you clarify what you mean by 1/3 of O&D being recaptured? With current service, at 3 million passeng...
Jump to postNobody has mentioned BHM, which has the same geographic advantages as ATL. They are 127nm apart. The problem has been that Alabama is not entirely welcoming to new businesses and BHM is a relatively small city. But so was ATL small when DL first made it a hub. It might not hurt UA to get a bigger f...
Jump to postI haven't read all the posts in this thread so maybe this has already been mentioned. I think MCO is a definite no go. There is another website that I won't mention, that presents a careful analysis of the current state of affairs there. It makes a convincing case that there are actually troubles i...
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