Cranky Flier

Er...they actually tried and failed. "I stopped counting long ago, but there have been many, many attempts to try to modernize the US’s air traffic control (ATC) system over the years" https://crankyflier.com/2025/05/12/the-us-government-tries-to-fix-air-… I am sure you can find better sources as there are so many of them.

No it’s more of a bad bet on what was thought to be a good engine. Hard to make money when your planes are grounded. https://crankyflier.com/2023/09/26/the-problem-with-pratt-whitneys-pw1…

Airlines with Airbus fleets are dealing with lengthy periods of unavailability due to issues with the Pratt & Whitney engines that power ~60% of A320neos and all A220s[1]. My understanding is that the airlines have agreements where P&W will eventually compensate them for this, but Airbus fleets haven't been without headaches. [1] https://crankyflier.com/2023/09/26/the-problem-with-pratt-whitneys-pw1…

...and Long Beach's stubbornness about that curfew and other things is a big part of the reason JetBlue packed up and moved all its operations to LAX https://crankyflier.com/2020/10/08/jetblues-two-decade-run-in-long-bea…

The essential air service is an enormous waste of money that could be going to people who really need it: https://crankyflier.com/2008/01/08/essential-air-service-thirty-years-…

> According to almost every other article it's because of aggressive expansion According to the numbers, they lose a ton of money on their existing flights: http://crankyflier.com/2012/07/05/virgin-america-posts-terrible-first-… So I think the gist of the article posted is about right, even if they didn't back it up with the relevant facts: VA's equilibrium fares don't meet their operating costs.

this link: http://crankyflier.com/2007/11/05/how-daylight-saving-time-impacts-the… says that it's a combination of how airport slots are allocated, the interaction between international and domestic connections and the fact that EU and the US used to be more synchronized in their clock fiddling. I wonder how much productivity is lost in IT due to spending time dinking with TZ configs, which sometimes involve complex interactions between OS and language platform and are not the easiest thing to test 100% before the switch happens. Interesting too is the list of lobbyists for and against the energy policy act of 2005: "Lobbyists for this provision included the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association, the National Association of Convenience Stores, and the National Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation Fighting Blindness. "Lobbyists against this provision included the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, the National Parent-Teacher Association, the Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Air Transport Association" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Policy_Act_of_2005#Change_to_dayli…