🤣 that’s nearly $13 a minute GTFO United

Riding PATH today, I stopped to buy a SmartLink card before it’s retired. Everything about this is like a bizarro hacky MTA Subway experience. You have to use a separate cash only machine to buy the card and then use a repurposed MetroCard machine to actually load value. And PATH still has passes!

I'm so confused by this. How in the world did a a Cybertruck get THAT damaged (enough to deploy the airbags) when striking a weak ass breakaway pole? These traffic/streetlight poles in NYC are designed to break from their foundation and fall over when hit by a vehicle. And boy do they ever...

🇩🇰 🇪🇺 Denmark will ban all civilian drone flights across the country this week to ensure security as Copenhagen hosts an EU summit gathering heads of government, the transport ministry said Sunday. ➡️ u.afp.com/SW8C

Amtrak: Which of these is the least comfortable? We’ll take 10,000 of those, please. Also, can they be made less comfortable, somehow?

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

“Let me just use @jettip.net to be alerted to inbound VIP aircraft and live track their exact position on @flightradar24.com while I hang out poolside at the TWA Hotel.” Damn kids don’t know how easy they have it compared to just like 10 years ago 🤣

UN Week makes some some interesting East River photo ops.

Another new Queens @mta.info bus route for me today. The network redesign FINALLY added routes and stops in Hunters Point, which has seen absurd levels of growth the past decade.

Someone at Starbucks HQ must have seen this post and decided to Thanos Snap its Downtown Brooklyn presence in this round of store closings starting tomorrow. Yeesh.

I have some serious questions for anyone that uses a Chase Sapphire Reserve card to order literally anything from Dollar General via DoorDash.

Come for the seven month old A220 flight. Stay for the incredible schnitzel in-flight meal.

Me trying to explain the different 5G indicators US carriers use to my European friends

True friendship is helping them find the hidden under-seat power outlet that they swear isn't there even after looking multiple times.

United ramping up its Starlink Wi-Fi installation, now working on the 737-800 with a fresh FAA certification. It'll enter service October 15 at EWR. UA says it is installing Starlink on ~50 regional jets each month. As a point of comparison, it took Cathay Pacific EIGHT YEARS to do ~100 aircraft.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahha This would mean ZERO flights from Canada to LaGuardia or National (plus a bunch of others). This would be such an absurd own-goal. And there's no way the US airlines are going to sit quietly on it.

NEWS: FAA confirms this AM's @wsj.com report, saying that it will allow "limited delegation" to Boeing to issue its own airworthiness certificates on some 737 MAXs & 787s. This would be the first time Boeing has done so since in 2019 for the Max and 2022 for the Dreamliner.

On AvTalk, we break down the near disaster in Nice where a landing Nouvelair A320 came within feet of an easyJet A320. And we get a schnitzel-stop tour from @airlineflyer.net & @photojdl.bsky.social of low-cost options across the Atlantic and within Europe. www.flightradar24.com/blog/avtalk-...

Airline centennial celebrations, so hot right now. Lufthansa also celebrates 100 years in 2026, and it's kicking things off now with a special livery on a 787-9 registered D-ABPU. It'll enter service in December. Dang, it looks good!

Big Boeing orders announced today: Turkish Airlines orders 75+25 787, split 35 787-9 and 15 787-10. Oh, and a LOI for a cool 150 737 MAX. Norwegian orders/exercises 30 737-8 MAX, its first order with Boeing since 2017 back when it was a very different airline.

Man, it really doesn’t take much in the way of weather to absolutely fuck up NYC airports these days. This is so unsustainable.

I like how Apple.com has a photo of each of its stores but *never* updates them. Would you just look at that iPod billboard! And is that an iPhone 5C sighting, the most forgettable iPhone of all time?!

The FAA is extending EWR’s hourly flight limitation through October 24, 2026. However, it’s bumping the rate up slightly from 68 to 72 hourly operations. PHL TRACON staffing for the EWR sector is currently at just 22 when the target is 46, or 48%. www.faa.gov/newsroom/202...

“On the A340-600, the biggest issue is the brakes, which are no longer produced. ‘We bought all the brakes available worldwide,’ Ritter explains. Once that store is used up, the aircraft can no longer be operated.”

What a crappy situation

Some really good news this evening out of Nevada: Avelo's requests for a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order against the #avelNO! campaign were denied!! 🥳 I've always believed my efforts were protected political speech. This is another ruling suggesting I was right. #nhpolitics

lol no way, they’re bringing Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 to PS5. There really is no such thing as an Xbox exclusive anymore, huh. That’s wild. Still though I wouldn’t spend a penny on this buggy garbage. youtu.be/1u5F-I1GH90?...

Only the real ones know

United says it will swap out its entire Guam-based 737-800 fleet for the MAX 8 starting Feburary 2026. That means the legandary Island Hopper and also Narita-operated desinations like Ulaanbaatar and Kaohsiung will see significant upgrades with the United NEXT cabins.

I know we joke a lot that Delta Tech Ops can fix anything no matter how bad the damage, but even I’m surprised this CRJ-900 came back from the dead. It’s off to Macon, presumably for painting of its new tail.

If you've gotta stop for fuel and allow pax to get off the jet for two hours it's just a really long day, not the longest flight.

Long day. Here are some airplane photos from Prague.

I know Apple has its own cellular model in the iPhone 17 Pro, but wow it cooks. I’m getting 4+ Gbps on Verizon mmWave around NYC now.

[email protected] took this review, but it's basically what I would have written. I said this back when it was Norwegian, and it stands true for Norse: It's the *best* premium economy seat in the sky. Norse Premium is an incredible value. Full stop.

American's 100th anniversary is coming up in April 2026, and it has released this new centennial brand mark that will be used across all channels. It's nice!

“Matt McCool, the top agent at the Secret Service’s New York field office” What a name and job title pairing

Uzbekistan Airways has ordered 14+8 more 787-9 today. This will expand its widebody fleet beyond the 7 787-8 it already has.

MTA today put into service its first Siemens Charger locomotive, which are massively more efficient and cleaner than the GE engines from the mid-1990s they replace. Unfortunately they'll still haul passenger coaches from the 1980/90s with no replacement even on order.

Not nice, not nice at all. A Nouvelair A320 passed over an easyJet A320 lined up for departure in Nice by just a few feet last night. The French BEA is investigating what it classifies as a serious incident. Details and data: www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

A local win for Embraer! LATAM has placed a order for 24+50 E195-E2, with deliveries beginning in the second half of 2026 initially for LATAM Brazil.

A 31 year old 757 is about to hit the market? An alarm is ringing somewhere in Atlanta…

The Endeavor Air CRJ that had its tail ripped off by an A350 earlier this year flew yesterday www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

The @nytransitmuseum.bsky.social #BusFestival is such a nice little event. I like that they also brought in other non-bus heavy equipment this year, like the tunnel scrubber.

“Largely positive” But competitive danger lurks behind every corner

Just the latest strange turn in the history of 9H-MIP, which was supposed to be the first Global "Airlines" A380. To note also: it will also need an entirely new cabin of business class seats, because the ex-Singapore ones are Koito and have exceeded their EASA grandfathered safety period.

@gogosuprtoe.bsky.social FIRED at Atlantic Terminal

@ohhleary.bsky.social For a long long time my fare cap started on Sundays, which sucked. But I was away a week and today it started fresh on a Saturday, today. So I guess it does work.

It’d be really nice if one of these days @nyc-dot.bsky.social did something more creative with the Brooklyn Bridge’s Chinatown stairway. It needs a decorate gate or a more creative sign. At least there’s some nice artwork on the wall these days now?

FAA throwing Frontier Communications (not the airline) and L3Harris under the bus for yesterday’s Dallas TRACON outage.

Montague St is busier than I’ve ever seen it, people are really enjoying the new (but still very impermanent) street design. I asked my barber what he thought of it: “People love it, businesses hate it.” I followed up with “do any of your customers driver here?” The response? “No, but I do.” 🏹👃