March 2023 – Michelle, Intentional Travelers, U.S. nomad:“We thoroughly enjoyed returning to visit Vietnam and would have stayed longer if we could. Our Vietnamese friends tell us that Covid is no longer a major concern in Vietnam. Tourists have few restrictions to worry about. There ar...
Three major turning points lead to Pan Am's demise: the company invested half a billion dollars on 747s right before an oil embargo raised the price of oil 400%; it purchased National Airlines in order to fly domestically, resulting in a loss of $18.9 million; and in December 1989, it ...
Experts say the plane's disappearance will likely put pressure on airlines and governments to improve the way they monitor planes, including handoff procedures between countries. Flight 370 vanished after it signed off with Malaysian air-traffic controllers, and never made contact with their Vietnames...
people, it's not the government or the arabs. Plus for a hijack of four planes to occur would have taken a lot of planning and time to do it. please, we can't blame the tragedy without proof because we don't have the authority to say who's right and wrong. only God does, but...
20 years, El Al airlines has not had a single hijacking. why? because they implement security functions that WORK. and when terrorists strike their land, they don’t do outlandish, useless scare tactics like ban liquids on planes. Since this ban really is a worthless jesture on the part of...
While most airlines have already increased plane sanitation and require crew and travelers to wear masks, the FAA has yet to enforce any industry-wide regulations. This has resulted in an uneven response from domestic airlines, ranging fromAlaska Air blocking offmiddle seats on large planes to oth...
Your life is organized like an orbit. I know. 了解了这点,就知道为何四年于相隔千里的我们,似乎只是弹指一挥间而已。 我其实了解小女儿的心理,是希望多一点surprise多一点romantic多一点傻里吧唧的指天划地的。可惜我这方面的才能似乎多用在0,1组成的无机世界里了,于是只能委屈她了。大多数的时间,她就一...
Still, by late 1972, the Lockheed C--141 Starlifter handled the prominent numbers of missions to Vietnam air bases. Air National Guard participation in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Airlift Mission to the War in Southeast Asia: 1965-1971 When Lockheed was nearing the end of its C-141 St...
For one thing, when does condensation last for hours? And if cars spewed such lingering “contrails” on cold days, we’d be up on pollution charges. And another thing too – the planes must be getting worse at emitting vapors because they didn’t do always do this. If they did, ...
This brings us to a third fundamental flaw in our approach, whereby we refuse to acknowledge that the real job of keeping terrorists away from planes is not the job of airport screeners in the first place. Rather, it’s the job of government agencies and law enforcement. The grunt work ...