What happened to "X miles down, X miles to go"? I can no longer see it on the flight tracking page. Thank you.

(Written on 12/08/2016)(Permalink)

I'm with Terry on this one. Why change something that works so well? Information is all over the place now, and there is much more "white space" between important information. This necessitates more scrolling, whereas earlier I could scroll once and see everything at a glance. Looks like one of those newfangled "let's make this look good for mobile users" decisions. Just like the new and "improved" google maps. As a desktop user, this is very disappointing. Any way to switch back? The information displayed is the same; it's just that the display of that information is different. No logical reason that prevents it from being an option...

(Written on 12/05/2016)(Permalink)

I feel just as safe on Republic & Skywest as I do on American & Southwest. They are all safe airlines, and as a result, I'd ahve to say all have placed safety & training first and foremost. You cannot transport millions of people without casualty and say that safety isn't top notch...you just can't. I'd like to add that the majors have had incidents and accidents over the last decade or so that could have ended in tragedy. Among others, these include: American flight 1400 out of STL (2007). Read the report, and you'll find that the pilots had trouble keeping altitude after an engine failure. This is over the busy St. Louis metro area. Delta 1086 LaGuardia (2015). A few more yards and that plane would've been in cold, dark, icy waters. Many may have drowned (think of the USAir Fokker crash years ago). Delta 2845 & Southwest 4013 (and others) landed at the wrong airport(s)! Even a crash with a light piston aircraft could have resulted in deadly, non-survivable fires.

(Written on 11/30/2016)(Permalink)

What a fantastic story! A couple of high achievers here, for sure.

(Written on 09/28/2016)(Permalink)

Wish that would happen to me on occasion. Especially at MIA!

(Written on 01/25/2016)(Permalink)

I knew he had a heart issue, but I had no clue of the chronic severity. Heart transplant is a last ditch effort for patients. Hearts & lungs do not typically do well (they typically fail in less than 5 years after transplant). "The airline said in a statement that the operation was 'the preferred treatment' and was not the result of a setback in Mr. Munoz’s recovery from a heart attack in October." Sounds like he may have been living with this issue for some time. I hope the allograft takes well.

(Written on 01/07/2016)(Permalink)

You're right, that's a good point. Ebola scares the heck out of people, yet people text and drunk drive every day and kill people.

(Written on 01/05/2016)(Permalink)

The real question here is why? "It just perplexes me that someone who wants a future in aviation would do this." A two-crew airliner is one thing-I don't think they would get so startled as to cause an incident. But what if it was a student pilot on his first night solo? Low, slow, and all the sudden distracted, prompting a go-around. P-factor and kicking the left rudder by mistake could kill someone flustered and blinded. Bummer of an article.

(Written on 01/05/2016)(Permalink)

Hope you're flying first or the business class.

(Written on 11/05/2015)(Permalink)

I notice sometimes the radar snapshot is off from the flight time. I wonder if the airplane found its way into an embedded cell. Either way, looking like a sad event.

(Written on 10/29/2015)(Permalink)