Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
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I was curious to see if our DXB and JNB flights got out last night. They both departed, with only about 130 pax, but both pushed very late, and then they both taxied for about 1.5-2hrs before getting airborne. There couldn't have been that much traffic going out at 10-11pm, was there a lineup for the deice pad?
The DXB didn't get off the ground until 02:30! Yikes!
The DXB didn't get off the ground until 02:30! Yikes!
ATL-JNB DAL 200, departed 8:30, arrived 6:33 SAST
How goes it .....
...in regards to the operation out there in ATL?
Media is showing iPhone video from stuck reporters on freeways amid abandoned cars and trucks.
Can't imagine crews are getting to or from downtown on layovers or in from their homes.
Snow and ice + 117 + reduced de-ice rate + likely lack of crews = ? Green-a-geddon?
Sunny, 77 in PHX today, however, we are going to pay for it come June.
Media is showing iPhone video from stuck reporters on freeways amid abandoned cars and trucks.
Can't imagine crews are getting to or from downtown on layovers or in from their homes.
Snow and ice + 117 + reduced de-ice rate + likely lack of crews = ? Green-a-geddon?
Sunny, 77 in PHX today, however, we are going to pay for it come June.
...in regards to the operation out there in ATL?
Media is showing iPhone video from stuck reporters on freeways amid abandoned cars and trucks.
Can't imagine crews are getting to or from downtown on layovers or in from their homes.
Snow and ice + 117 + reduced de-ice rate + likely lack of crews = ? Green-a-geddon?
Sunny, 77 in PHX today, however, we are going to pay for it come June.
Media is showing iPhone video from stuck reporters on freeways amid abandoned cars and trucks.
Can't imagine crews are getting to or from downtown on layovers or in from their homes.
Snow and ice + 117 + reduced de-ice rate + likely lack of crews = ? Green-a-geddon?
Sunny, 77 in PHX today, however, we are going to pay for it come June.
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C'mon New. Have you switched to Obamacare yet? Or are you still on the Delta plan? Would you vote for him again? He's a disaster and if you can't acknowledge that, I'm sorry.
Besides, Gore hit the mother lode with a stupid and unproven idea. Driving in Atlanta tonight.
You're better than this.
Besides, Gore hit the mother lode with a stupid and unproven idea. Driving in Atlanta tonight.
You're better than this.
I don't see this as a forum for climate change discussion BUT since you brought it up and are so far off base... the reason that we have such cold temps in the south right now is because of a northerly flow over the pacific generated by WARMING ocean temps. Meanwhile record highs in Australia, pack ice in the Antarctic caused by a southerly flow in the Atlantic - again WARMING ocean temps.
It is rocket science. Data is easily accessed, do a little research.
Had a BMW when I moved to MSP in 98. Having lived in that part of the country before, I put it in the garage and relegated it to a "summer only" car (about 3 weeks a year). MN puts so much salt on the road in the winter it seems like other states could come to collect it off the roadsides like a salt flat.
I went to a Subaru place, and picked out the cheapest POS lease return on the lot with manual transmission and A/L brakes (still an option then). Turned out to be a little green 97 Impreza Outback Sport wagon with 20k miles on it.
Drove cheap, felt cheap, looked cheap....BUT, after 16 years that car never stranded me and held on to the road like it was on rails in practically any condition. Snow, slush, ice, whatever. When the snow plows would bury your car in the parking lot, that little car would just climb right over them.
When I finally moved that car sat in the parking lot in MSP for a year and a half before I had a chance to get it. Started on the first crank.
My only true complain about the Subaru is that factory parts are priced like they're made of gold, and if you live somewhere where they're not common, trying to get anyone to work on them is $$$$. Mine has has some occasional electrical gremlins and fried switches which required factory replacements.
But Rockauto is your friend along with a set of metric tools. The AC finally seized up and the local place wanted $1500. Had the local shop drain the freon and purge the lines, got a $250 compressor from Rockauto and some busted knuckles and $90 for a charge later, back in business and colder than ever.
Still have it. 100k miles on it, and it still cleans up. I use it for my "throw crap in the back" vehicle.
Nu
I went to a Subaru place, and picked out the cheapest POS lease return on the lot with manual transmission and A/L brakes (still an option then). Turned out to be a little green 97 Impreza Outback Sport wagon with 20k miles on it.
Drove cheap, felt cheap, looked cheap....BUT, after 16 years that car never stranded me and held on to the road like it was on rails in practically any condition. Snow, slush, ice, whatever. When the snow plows would bury your car in the parking lot, that little car would just climb right over them.
When I finally moved that car sat in the parking lot in MSP for a year and a half before I had a chance to get it. Started on the first crank.
My only true complain about the Subaru is that factory parts are priced like they're made of gold, and if you live somewhere where they're not common, trying to get anyone to work on them is $$$$. Mine has has some occasional electrical gremlins and fried switches which required factory replacements.
But Rockauto is your friend along with a set of metric tools. The AC finally seized up and the local place wanted $1500. Had the local shop drain the freon and purge the lines, got a $250 compressor from Rockauto and some busted knuckles and $90 for a charge later, back in business and colder than ever.
Still have it. 100k miles on it, and it still cleans up. I use it for my "throw crap in the back" vehicle.
Nu
Airport car (150m commute to JFK) = 2001 Jetta. 240K. FWD. ABS on permanent MCO for the last 4 years. Handles snow just fine.
The 80's were the best. Nice to see a familiar face at the end : )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduNjwNvcH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eduNjwNvcH4
"Still waiting on the demo, I think they're talking about the Atari right now..."
I don't see this as a forum for climate change discussion BUT since you brought it up and are so far off base... the reason that we have such cold temps in the south right now is because of a northerly flow over the pacific generated by WARMING ocean temps. Meanwhile record highs in Australia, pack ice in the Antarctic caused by a southerly flow in the Atlantic - again WARMING ocean temps.
Back in the late summer I started noticing that the sun seemed not to be up as long as it had been earlier in the summer. So I started keeping track, and sure enough we lost about 2 minutes of daylight per day in July. I need to put my excel spreadsheet on here.
But in August, we lost 3 minutes a day. So it got worse. It's not a constant loss of light, it's accelerating. Anyways, to make a long thought process short, c=a/2 x t^2, and what I figured out is by July of this year... we are completely out of light.
Now we started having a little more light every day recently, but it's not going to save us. No light by July then and everyone dead by September.
It is rocket science. Data is easily accessed, do a little research.
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