I like to get in early, knowing there's overhead bin space (especially since all my luggage is carry-on). Also to get a seat belt extender (which I nearly always need) from the crew when they're not yet busy, then sit and calmly watch everyone else make their way on. YMMV.
Why do some passengers line up early for a flight? Psychologists explain
This hour’s random desktop background on my #MacbookPro is this A2A shot of the Terrafugia Transition. They were way to far ahead of the “flying car” curve.
When it first came out (can’t remember the exact year), I went to Oshkosh and pitched the company on a free advertising/marketing package from my ad agency in trade for a very early slot in their order book. Thankfully, that deal never came together.
Lots of people are critical of the thousands who flew to and from #COP28. But at least that's a #climate conference. How about the million-plus people per day just going on #vacation?
If we want to save the planet, we should be cutting back on #flying. But we're headed the other direction.
The US #TSA screens more than 2 million people most days. On November 26, they screened 2,907,378 people, more in a single day than they had before, on any day of any year, ever. https://www.tsa.gov/travel/passenger-volumes
@Dianora@mrcranky I once had a line person at an airport suggest I could fly away and the newly-fallen powder snow would just blow off the wings of my (former) small plane.
Uh, no.
It would have been a Darwin-award qualifier regardless, but I found a thick crust of ice under the powder (the sun must have melted some of the snow before it refroze). I probably wouldn't have survived more than 90 seconds after lifting off.
I'm a bit obsessive about snow removal, even on cars.
I guess the AI in my #MacbookPro random desktop background generator must have picked up that I have firefighting helicopters on the brain today. This is a 2023 Global Identification Chart from HeliOps.
By no stretch of the imagination would I call Ryanair "loveable". Almost everyone hates them. Sometimes though they're the only airline to fly directly between two points; i used to use them to get to obscure Polish airports.
I keep flying budget airlines, even though they hate me (and you too)
"#Spain wants to ban #ShortHaulFlights when there is an alternative by #train that takes less than 2.5 hours. However, flights using the capital city to connect to international routes would not be included in the ban.
ALA has argued that, rather than enforcing a ban, large airports should be connected to the #HighSpeedRail network to give travelers the choice between #flying and train travel."
One of the things my #XPlane#flightsim never got right in my opinion was the brightness of landing lights. They have always been very dim, and at night you do not see the runway until damned near over the numbers.
Last night I finally found the settings for this and tweaked my usual #Cessna 172SP so now it has very wide and bright landing lights. Not real-world, but I can see the whole runway now.
I now have a callsign so I can fly under that instead of using my tail number. Since I have access to 6 different aircraft this could be beneficial for my poor smol brain.
5.3 metres – the degree of sea level rise now unavoidable from West Antarctic Ice Sheet melting ALONE – is sufficient to entirely submerge most of urban Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, and an enormous area of southern Iraq (Qatar gets off surprisingly lightly).