Lynne Kiesling Having just returned from a 1.5-week, three-conference trip, I am having my now-usual visceral reaction to the thought of another airport experience — nausea, which I hope diminishes by the time of my next trip in early August. Thus I’m in violent (irony intended) agreement with a post on Bruce Schneier’s blog today …
Michael Giberson Turkey, Texas: Home of Bob Wills The Texas Playboys play at Bob Wills Day Last Saturday my youngest son and I traveled up the road to Turkey, Texas, to catch a part of the annual Bob Wills Day celebration. Bob Wills is credited along with Milton Brown with pioneering Western Swing in the …
Michael Giberson Last week I attended the Gulf Coast Power Association‘s spring conference. Very good time. More comments later this week after I have time to catch up. Just a note today on the pre-conference power plant tour featuring the Tenaska Frontier Generating Plant in Shiro, Texas (about 50 north of Houston). The 830-MW combined-cycle …
Lynne Kiesling Bruce Schneier is one of the most thoughtful, knowledgeable security experts in the world, and he’s been constructively critical of the TSA’s airport policies and procedures for quite some time (so have I, but I have nothing like his expertise or his street cred). You may have seen Jeffrey Goldberg’s November 2008 Atlantic …
Airport Kabuki: Bruce Schneier on “Security Theater” Read More »
Michael Giberson The Houston Chronicle, among others, report on a Continental Airlines test flight relying in part on biofuels. On Wednesday, a Continental Airlines Boeing 737-800 became the first U.S. commercial jet to fly on a mix of conventional jet fuel and biofuels…. “The airplane performed perfectly,” test pilot Rich Jankowski said. “There were no …
Lynne Kiesling Hi all! I write from St. Charles, Missouri, which was the starting point of the Lewis & Clark Corps of Discovery expedition in 1804 and is the terminus of our 2008 Corps of Discovery bike odyssey. We drive to Chicago tomorrow. We are a bit behind in updating the L&C Bike Tour blog, …
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Lynne Kiesling I’m outta here for a couple of weeks of bicycling! Sunday night we will arrive in Pierre, South Dakota, from whence we bike east along the Missouri River to St. Charles, Missouri. We are biking the first one-third of the Lewis & Clark Trail in reverse, accompanied by their journals and other history-relevant …
Michael Giberson *Well, almost real congestion pricing. It may not be the real thing, but it is a reasonable facsimile and a step in the right direction. It is not quite the real thing, because, as I observed last time, the FAA “will not allow airport authorities to charge prices sufficient to balance demand with …
Yes, This is Real Congestion Pricing for Airports* Read More »
Michael Giberson The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing to change its policy toward landing fees to “provide greater flexibility to operators of congested airports to use landing fees to provide incentives to air carriers to use the airport at less congested times or to use alternate airports to meet regional air service needs.” As explained …
Michael Giberson Francisco Torralba, on his EconWeekly blog, writes on Hubs, spokes and flight delays and How to eliminate flight delays, now. Torralba: The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is bent on fixing flight delays. To that end, the agency proposes to cap traffic at JFK…. Mandatory caps can get the job done, but we …
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