Stephan Segraves

Did a quick write-up of the new United elite status requirement increases for 2025-2026. #travel #frequentflyer badice.com/2024/10/unit...

JetBlue reporting a $257M net loss for Q3, including a $144M operating loss. Revenue up to $2.8bn, (+$490M YoY), while OpEx increased by $534M. Only $329M of that was fuel. Salaries and landing fees were another $100M higher. "Other" was up $57M. $JBLU

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This isn’t a PDX specific issue. Airfare is up everywhere but is more noticeable from leisure markets. www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

Aeromexico to commence 3 new routes from Mexico City (MEX): • MEX to Fort Lauderdale (FLL) from January 14 • MEX to Portland (PDX) from January 21 • MEX to Orange County (SNA) from January 10 1 daily 737 each

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Since Trump’s first term the price of a stamp has almost doubled.

My experiences on American Airlines are very mixed but their cold salmon protein plate is one of the most consistent domestic US airlines dishes I’ve had. It’s tasty, it’s filling, and it’s healthier than a lot of the other options.

Hey Texas, you broke? (Texas is the largest producer of wind power in the country)

I am simply devastated by the loss of @jaredwsmith.com. Jared was one of my closest, oldest friends. Since learning of his passing yesterday, I have been sifting through old files, thinking about the many memories I will have of Jared, and deciding how best to talk about it. What I came up with:

Airports trying to “keep up” is a function of there being more air traffic at the airports, which last time I checked, the federal government can control.

If he was sitting in coach he could triple his output.

I feel like my kid sticking his head in the sand hole he dug is a metaphor or something.

The main reg that would cover this is 91.113, and that gives a carve out for landings and take offs.

I didn’t realize Des Moines Airport (DSM) was getting a new head house and terminal with six gates, but they are. Old terminal stays and will be connected to new terminal via a bridge post-security. Should open in January 2027.

Watching people attempt to put their cowboy boots back on after security at DFW is all the entertainment I need tonight. I think they need to install some shoe horns.

"I too would like a quagmire, but make mine on water"

I feel dumb even just having to say this but the reason passports are mailed out in plain regular envelopes is that so that people do not attempt to steal easily recognizable passports in the mail. bsky.app/profile/carn...

Thoughts on the new trains: Great! But... Amtrak needs to figure out the bike situation in the Airo Trains. As it stands now, the new trains have 6 checked bike spaces, and conductors have said that half of the bikes will need a front wheel removed to get them to both fit.

Two callouts, Atlas Air and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. 1) is this just execs going back and forth from White Plains to Anchorage? 2) I just find this one odd. They’re doing enough corp business to get a shoutout but it raises more questions than answers.

They’ll finally be able to justify some of their crazy F pricing on transcons. Kind of.

The MAX 10s with the premium config will also get the "Aurora" livery treatment. No Chester on the tail if you get the better seats on board.

So Port of Portland and PDX very loudly stated they wouldn’t have the Kristi Noem TSA/DHS video playing but they very quietly started showing the Markwayne Mullin video.

Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

For being so terrified of Sharia Law they sure do like the “aesthetic” of Sharia Law.

FFS www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Haven't been loving the UI changes to MacOS and have had issues with my Windows machines I am tempted to go back to just being a Linux only user. Are there any good laptop options out there for a Linux user?

Cranes are on-site at the Tillamook Air Museum to remove the damaged pieces of the roof as part of the restoration effort.

@airlineflyer.net @byerussell.com do either of you know why the new Airo train sets would have four fewer bike positions?

My five year-old told a better fart joke this morning.

If you are planning to “walk in” to Costco for an immunization, just note that in Portland, they don’t actually take walk-ins after 5pm. They seem to arbitrarily apply this rule…

FAA had a radar outage at JFK yesterday morning. Today it moves down the Northeast to PHL Center and impacts EWR. Oh and PHL Center has a staffing shortage for EWR. And there’s VIP ground stops at JFK. And the weather ain’t great.

An interesting (and unplanned) bit came up on this week's recording with @stephan.wtf and @wandrme.paxex.aero this afternoon, comparing Ryanair with US U/LCCs. Ryanair has 2200+ unique city pairs in its network. Frontier has ~300. #AvGeek

The ultimate kick in the shin for us American elder millennials will be when the AI bubble bursts and collapses a huge chunk of the stock market with it, leaving us with limited time for our retirement portfolios to recover.

I don’t think I will ever understand AeroMexico’s reverse redeyes from Europe.

Just a reminder that 2027 is going to be an "amazing" year for United PlusPoints upgrades.

You have to specify which way to turn my head Do you mean toward the pedestrian plaza lined with bikes and tree cover or the narrow one-way residential street with a 20 km/h speed limit and also bikes lining every inch