I used to spend a lot of time on Reddit but quit cold turkey a few years ago when it made those API changes that killed third party apps. I’ll occasionally end up on Reddit searching for something specific, but it looks like I won’t even be doing that anymore.

Taking an evening stroll through the park when suddenly @nycsanitation.bsky.social came by to collect compost from the new bins using an automated loader. Obviously I had to stand there and watch. 7 bins unloaded in 10 minutes, without a single scrap falling to the ground. Good stuff!

Taking a look through my Spirit Airlines pics from over the years. Between the pixel livery, sloppy S "birthday cake" livery, claw marked yellow livery, and the final more dignified yellow livery, the airline took FOREVER to standardize to one paint job. I'm actually not sure it ever achieved that.

It’s not that it’s a bad seat, per se. it’s just not for me. But maybe you’ll like it!

The amount of emails United sends leading up to a short regional jet flight it knows I frequently (attempt, at least) take and never purchase anything for is increasingly annoying. Rent a car! Buy an extra checked bag bundle! Buy Economy Plus! It's just days away! It's almost time! Leave me alone.

A couple of Spirit aircraft are alive this morning. An A321neo is ferrying from FLL to GYR for storage, while an A321ceo is being taxied from the ATL C gates (where it parked after operating its final flight friday night) over to a remote stand.

👀 Cannot wait to see the video that inevitably comes out of someone’s dash cam.

Let’s give the unscheduled @mtalirr.bsky.social Jamaica connection another go, this time with 3 whole minutes! I easily made it. Any competent railroad wouldn’t suppress a 3 minute connection like this. The trip planner would have forced an additional 20 minutes of needless dead time at Jamaica.

Wandered into our neighborhood bar of choice not knowing it’s Kentucky Derby Day, minutes before the race. I am not disappointed!

It really is the end of MetroCard. @mta.info is now actively removing the swipe mechanism from turnstiles, right next to blanked out coin slots in many cases. I love that they didn’t bother to also remove the prominent “Enter By Swiping Here” MetroCard sticker.

Oh the irony of the “report a problem on this bus” PSA being a tiny fraction of the screen because someone at @mta.info used the wrong image size.

“They have also asked Congress to suspend the 7.5% federal excise tax on airline tickets and $5.30 per segment tax. Waiving ‌the ⁠fees would offset about one-third of the incremental cost of higher jet fuel.” GTFO. That’s absolutely absurd. That money is vital to keeping airports functioning.

Bro, this thing is bigger than a Honda Jet

JetBlue is moving quickly to fill Spirit's gap, adding 11 new routes from Fort Lauderdale beginning in July. - Barranquilla - Baltimore-Washington - Cali - Charlotte - Chicago O’Hare - Columbus - Detroit - Houston Bush - Indianapolis - Nashville - Ponce

I can’t believe it it’s real. Spirit Airlines is no more. “Sustaining the business required hundreds of millions of additional dollars of liquidity that Spirit simply does not have and could not procure. This is tremendously disappointing and not the outcome any of us wanted.” - Dave Davis, CEO

It seems like this may be it for Spirit Airlines. Flights in the air now may be its last. You can laugh at this bottom tier airline, but a lot of people are about to be jobless. Pilots, cabin crew, mechanics, ground staff, and countless contractors who don’t even directly work for Spirit. It sucks.

Did you know: You can send compliments (positive things!) into @mta.info if you encounter a great employee? We had such a fantastic driver on the Q101 bus. Incredibly welcoming and she even waved us goodbye and wished a happy weekend as we got off the bus. contact.mta.info/s/customer-f...

I haven't seen anything official come from Spirit so far, but this is telling: Spirit has two flights scheduled to depart in the 2am hour tomorrow out of SJU and both are now canceled.

Narrator: They did in fact divert back to ORD

Is Spirit still operating: Yes

Having nearly 2 decades of Streetview imagry available makes identifying municipal incompetence so easy. Take this ped plaza light in DTBK. You can see it being installed in June 2011 and in place Sept 2014. The pole was gone in July 2016, still covered by a cone a decade later. Ridculous neglect.

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, the Port Authority says it will add transponders to certain vehicles at La Guardia after the NTSB’s preliminary report. And at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, humanoid robots could be handling your bags this month. flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-...

Lufthansa isn’t even the most premium airline in Germany. Pretty sure that’s Condor at the moment.

Stepped out of my building and parked literally at the door is…an Ocean. The driver saw me snap the pic and asked why, and it’s the first time I had a full conversation with a driver. He says he loves his Ocean and was telling me all about its cool features. And it was a first sighting!

Biman Bangladesh announced its largest order ever today: Eight 787-10, two 787-9, and four 737-8. That's in addition to the two 787-9 and four 787-8 it already has. Feels like just yesterday it was retiring its last DC-10.

Nearly three years ago, PANYNJ approved $30 million for improved transit access to LGA. Outside of improving the Q70 LGA Link (did that happen?), a new free bus route to the subway at Astoria-Ditmars was planned. Haven't heard a peep since then. Has anyone? www.panynj.gov/port-authori...

Delta: K̶e̶e̶p̶ ̶C̶l̶i̶m̶b̶i̶n̶g̶ Delta operates a ton of flights right at and under that 349 miles mark that are still decently long. Flights like MSP-MDW, LGA-14 routes, JFK-12 routes won't even get a basic water service even with flight times over an hour.

TIL that the EU's EES, the new system that has really slowed down EU airports, has an app to speed things up. But you probably haven't heard of it because it's basically useless. It only works for Sweden and Portugal, and only Sweden supports most features 🤦‍♂️ travel-europe.europa.eu/ees/Travel-t...

American is also tossing some America250 (🙄) on an aircraft, but it's just a small-ish 250 logo on the back of a new E175. Interesting twist: This aircraft will operate American's inaugural resumption of service flight to Caracas, Venezuela tomorrow.

Go ViaSat-3! Go Falcon Heavy! Rocket launches are amazing.

You really can’t go wrong with an E190. Especially when it’s spring a brand new interior. But something…something was missing.

Ohhh, that's a real solid @jettip.net alert for LGA! Of course they're currently using the one approach that doesn't fly over Brooklyn so I won't be able to see it. www.flightradar24.com/KRH646R/3f74...

I just woke up in a cold sweat from a terrible dream. I was trying to find my Virgin Atlantic flight at gate 76, no idea what airport, but gate 76 didn’t exist. I missed the flight and went into a blind rage trying unsuccessfully to find customer service. What the hell what what about, brain?!

Love to see a negative 38 minute advance notice for a planned JFK AirTrain disruption.

Malcom in the Middle reboot >>> Scrubs reboot

People stupid enough to want this don't travel outside their home town, let alone have passports. I hope these all rot in a cardboard box somewhere.

Wait wait wait. On-site parking at the Meadowlands for World Cup matches is only $225, while NJT is charging $150 PER PERSON!? So a family of just two people going to a match pays $75 more than driving and parking? This is absolutely outrageous.

There's a ton of data here, but I'm not sure how much translates to real world use. A cutoff of 25/3 Mbps for "good enough" isn't a great measure since 24/2.5 Mbps is an imperceptible difference. And a 250 Mbps speedtest doesn't account for video streaming speed throttled down to 2 Mbps (ahem, AA).

It's Happening Dot GIF

New Southwest Airlines special livery alert: An America250 (🙄) livery called Independence One. Red, white, and blue paint with a giant 1776 script. Key phrases from the Delcrattion of Independence and thirteen stars on the fusulage, with a tail number of N1776R. Flying April 29 DAL-PHL.

Squiggles is not in the best of health these days, but I got to send this pic to the vet so that's fun

American continues to talk about and improve its app. The next update update focuses on a redesigned trip details page. There’s also a nice new feature that lets the user easily split out passengers booked in the same itinerary if plans change, generating a new PNR. That’s great. Wake up, Delta!

I like everything Scott Kirby has done at United. He’s turned the airline into something I now personally prefer over Delta. But almost every time he has opened his mouth this year I like him less and less. Enough with this nonsensical AA merger nonsense already.

“B98 is now T403” is some real weird @mta.info shit. Why are the subway shuttle bus routes being renumbered, and what the hell are these weird T routes?

Me, minding my own business at a coffee shop: Ocean pulls up and parks directly in front of me

Riding what would ordinarily be a crush loaded @mta.info G train, but it’s not crush loaded because we’re on a rare open gangway train. The added capacity it provides should be standard on every new train delivered to MTA.

Been a while since I’ve used @citibikenyc.bsky.social for a purposeful trip. Not enjoying it at the moment.

Days like today make me really thankful that a bunch of people back in the early 1990s decided to take a chunk out of the Downtown Brooklyn street grid and create a big open green pedestrianized superblock.