air travel
ddobbs | March 10, 2009From Cratylus, an intriguing visualization of worldwide air traffic, with notes on carbon impact:
This simulation shows the world-wide air traffic over a 24-hour period. Watch as day dawns across the globe: The hubbub of activity created each morning in the skies gradually tapers off in the dead of night, only to come roiling back the following morning.
According to NATCA, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association: "On any given day, more than 87,000 flights are in the skies in the United States ... and in one year, [U.S.] controllers handle an average of 64 million takeoffs and…
grrlscientist | June 21, 2008
Image: Orphaned.
Already, I know which airline I plan to avoid for my flight across the pond to London: US Air. I just learned that, as of 1 August, US Air is instituting a $2 charge for all drinks on all domestic flights -- another way to nickle and dime their passengers to death, apparently.
No, this won't affect me because I will be traveling on an international flight and no, I am not talking about alcoholic beverages, which already cost $7 or more, I am talking about non-alcoholic beverages; juices, soda, coffee and bottled water! Worse, since we cannot carry liquids through security…