NTSB briefing is getting started.
17:06:47: Aircraft departed Runway 28L
17:12:33: Recorded cabin pressure dropped from 14.09 to 11.64 psi. A/C was at 14,830 ft and 271 kts.
17:12:34, cabin pressure dropped to 9.08psi
17:13:41, continued to climb, reached 16,320 and descended.
Jan 8 • 18 tweets • 2 min read
NTSB press briefing starting now.
Chair @JenniferHomendy: "And I just want to emphasize the correct term here is really plug. It is not a door."
Dec 5, 2023 • 113 tweets • 10 min read
Good morning from federal District Court in Boston, where closing arguments in the JetBlue-Spirit merger antitrust trial are set to begin.
With 40 minutes until court is in session, it's already packed in here. I believe they'll have the overflow room open, for anyone planning to be here.
Nov 9, 2023 • 46 tweets • 4 min read
Good morning, I'm back in court this morning for the JetBlue-Spirit antitrust trial.
Eric Friedman, JetBlue's director of route planning, is currently being questioned by DOJ.
We're looking at some market analysis that JetBlue ran on overlapping markets.
Nov 6, 2023 • 104 tweets • 9 min read
Hello from federal District Court in Boston, where it's Day 5 of the JetBlue-Spirit antitrust trial. The defense questioning of JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes has started.
A 2021 assessment found a Spirit-Frontier merger would put greater margin pressures on JetBlue.
Nov 3, 2023 • 49 tweets • 4 min read
It’s day 4 of the JetBlue-Spirit trial. I’ll be reporting from court later in the morning — I have a meeting to stop by beforehand.
Hello from court. I walked in during the defense questioning of this witness — I missed the introduction, but I think it's Matt Klein, Spirit Airlines EVP and CCO.
Nov 1, 2023 • 73 tweets • 8 min read
Hello from federal District Court in Boston, where day 2 of the Spirit-JetBlue merger antitrust trial is about to get started.
The defense is about to begin its questioning of Spirit CEO Ted Christie, following yesterday's questioning by the DOJ.
Oct 31, 2023 • 55 tweets • 6 min read
Hello from the *overflow* room at the US District Court in Boston, MA, where the antitrust trial for the JetBlue-Spirit merger is about to get underway.
As they work to get the stream up in the overflow room despite tech challenges, a court employee jokes "sorry, your flight has been delayed. Come on, I had to."
Dec 27, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
NEW: Southwest plans to operate about 1,500 flights per day through Friday as it works to sort out its network. It also plans to zero-out inventory, making it so people can’t buy tickets or rebook onto flights that may eventually be canceled.
Zeroing inventory means that customer service agents won’t be able to rebook passengers onto new flights for a few days, until the network is partially fixed and cancellations are finalized.
Dec 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Southwest’s operation has clearly suffered the worst. Once this is all over I’m eager to see a post-mortem. What could have been done differently, aside from staffing up better at crew scheduling? Given the nature of line-flying, how do they prevent this next time?
Line-flying: Southwest planes and crews fly “lines” on trips, hoping from point to point, without either a hub-and-spoke system or isolated trips. Recent issues show us it’s arguably more susceptible to irrecoverable disruption.
Nov 10, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
I wrote about the controversies surrounding the World Cup in Qatar and the difficult ethical considerations surrounding going to the tournament, including the thousands of deaths linked to the event and the brutal repression of LGBTQ+ people.
thepointsguy.com/news/qatar-wor…
The World Cup is one of the biggest travel-related events in the world, and we were torn on how to cover it. Thousands, maybe millions of fans are going, but we can't ignore the suffering, controversy, and alleged corruption surrounding it. thepointsguy.com/news/qatar-wor…
Sep 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Just got my son’s hospital and NICU bill. It cost him $35,341.22 to be born! Thankfully we have good insurance — we only owe $1,059.90.
“Why aren’t millennials having more kids?”
That’s on top of the $72,000 billed (so far) for my wife’s care — again, just about a grand out of pocket because we’re fortunate enough to have good insurance. Grateful that lifetime limits were banned under the ACA.
Oct 10, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Airlines have been flying at capacity since the spring, with little margin for error. ATC has been short-staffed for years. Which is great if you're a controller who likes OT, bad if just a few people go out sick/PTO. There were storms and a military exercise this weekend.
None of this is new. We've seen this happen multiple times this year, even, where one airline gets caught wrong-footed by a confluence of staffing and events, and ends up with a network in disarray that takes a few days to correct.
Oct 9, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This idea of some grand Resistance™ to tyranny is just exhausting. The government requiring your airline to make sure you have a pilots license is not tyranny. How is this different? vm.tiktok.com/ZM8dLeefs/
This is about ensuring MY freedom to be safe from a preventable disease. You contributing to the spread of a preventable disease inhibits MY freedom. That’s been the basis of public health in this country since the 1800s.
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