Aviation Thread (https://www.reforestnation.ie/offset-your-carbon)

Flew from La Guardia in June place was like a bomb site awful😩

100%

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You can get a chopper into Manhattan for 99 bucks

Cc @Tassotti

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You’d want your head examined

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That’s for sure.

The roads from JFK to Manhattan are in shocking bad condition.

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From what I hear you should expect to be late if you fly with them

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@Fagan_ODowd or @Big_Dan_Campbell - have you had to do any layovers in Newark? Any advice for a decent bar to pass away and hour or two watching NFL?

For a busy hub there isn’t a whole lot in it in terms of decent bars as far as airports go. There is a real tacky Irish bar iirc. You might be as well off shelling out $40 for Lounge access.

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There is one sports bar type place at the end of an aisle. Essentially just a fridge with bottled beer in it, but they had a fairly sizable tv

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I see the wings are cracking on the new Boeing 737 planes. Between the wings falling off and the other ones having a tendency to want to bury themselves nose first in the ground you’d want your head examined to get up on a Boeing these days

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Been some pretty interesting articles on the culture shift within Boeing over the last decade or so.

The computer knew the wings were banjaxed and thought “fuck this, I’m going back down”

Really? It does appear that the relationship between the airline manufacturers and the FAA is similar to the relationship that existed between the financial regulators and the banks and we know how that crash went

That’s capitalism for you

In fairness without capitalism we would still be using carts and horses.

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No

And horses are a favoured mode of transport of capitalists

The capitalist ethos says that if somebody is killed in a plane crash, they should take their custom away from that airline for their next plane journey

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They wont fly with them again anyway

https://www.newsweek.com/iranians-shot-down-ukraine-flight-mistake-sources-1481313