Time for you to fly after you get your Pilot's License
Time for you to fly after you get your Pilot's License
April 19, 2022 IF YOU’RE headed to the airport terminal today, you can leave your face covering in the house. The other day, a Federal court overruled the Biden Administrations expansion of the TSA-enforced mask required for flight terminals, aircrafts, as well as public transportation. By late mid-day, the White House generally stepped down, revealing …
We don’t wade into pandemic talk too often here at AirlineReporter. This place is our escape from pandemic-related troubles, and we hope it is for you all too. But every once in a while our radar picks up a news update that’s hard to ignore. United made big waves last year by being the largest …
December 30, 2021 AT THE AIRPORT in Boston, yesterday, the check-in lines reached all the way to the sidewalks. I’d never seen anything like it. I had to put my luggage down and gawk. And most of the passengers, it hardly needs mentioning, looked supremely distressed. Across the United States, the past week has been …
OCTOBER 26, 2021 FOR AMERICANS returning home from abroad, few things are more of a hassle than the requirement to get a COVID test. The government mandates that returning citizens be tested within three days of their flight, regardless of which country they’re coming from. Airlines will not let you board without proof of a …
September 11, 2021 MY MOST VIVID MEMORY of September 11th, 2001, is my memory of a cockroach. It was one of the biggest roaches I’ve ever seen — copper-colored and bullet-shaped, the length of my little finger — and it came crawling across the platform of the Government Center subway station at 7:00 a.m., as …
July 19, 2021 THE OTHER DAY, traveling between Boston and New York, my plane was delayed 90 minutes for air traffic congestion. This once-routine occasion was something I hadn’t experienced in sixteen months. This was, missed dinner plans aside, a good thing. Normalcy is back, with domestic passenger volume now matching or even exceeding 2019 …
May 4, 2021 Mexico City, Mexico HOUSEKEEPING: Good evening. PATRICK SMITH: Hola. Can you help me? The door to my mini-fridge is locked. HOUSEKEEPING: Yes, sir. PATRICK SMITH: I need somewhere to store my leftovers. The fridge is locked. HOUSEKEEPING: Yes, it is locked. For COVID-19. PATRICK SMITH: What? HOUSEKEEPING: The fridge is locked. Because …
I want to fly, but I just wouldn’t do it right now There are many people right now questioning if it is safe to fly. It is a valid question, but I do not have the answer. For me personally, I have decided not to fly and I probably won’t be in the air for …
MOSTLY, this has been an exercise in stress. I suppose that’s an ambiguous term, so constituently we’re talking about fear, dread, and uncertainty. Not a fear of the virus. Coming down with COVID-19 isn’t what scares me. What scares me is what the airline business might look like by the time things settle out — …
LaGuardia International Airport (LGA) – Photo: Timothy Vogel | FlickrCC Two things unite all of us on the AirlineReporter team: (1) we all LOVE flying, and (2) we all have other day jobs. I started writing for this website a few years ago as a medical student in California. And once I graduated I moved …