Ok, I have many disabled friends, but I am getting upset with them and we argue some times.
This guy who is disabled refused to put his chair on a plane, and when the airline insisted, he decided to simply drag himself around on the floor instead of useing one of their chairs. Who on earth does this guy think he is ?
Does he struggle to use a normal toilet or use the disabled one ?
Does he park as far from a shop as possible, or use the disabled parking spaces ?
Does he, like women with push chairs, expect everyone to get out of his way, or put up with the pushing and shoving ?
He no doubt excepted the Disabled Parking RIGHT OUTSIDE the airport doors, whilst us sadly able bodied people had to walk miles.
The ramp to the door, the fast track to the checkin, the people fawning over him and being forced to stand to one side as he passed in his wheel chair all no doubt was acceptable to him.
But ask him to put his chair in the plane and he kicks off.
Today, around 5:45pm, I was driving near the San Jose, CA airport. I’ve lived close to the flight path for more than 2 years, so I’m pretty familiar with how planes approach to land.
Well, a Southwest Airlines plane was coming in normally from the south, when it swerved way to the west, almost like it was turning around. Then it wiggled and wobbled – I honestly thought it was going to crash, then, with less than 1/4 mile before the airport, it finally got back on track. Since I didn’t hear sirens, and there hasn’t been anything on the news, I assume it landed normally.
How would I find out if something almost happened?
I was at the airport a few years back on a flight which I had to pass through the Narita Airport in Japan. I was coming in from the Honk Kong Aiport and landing in Japan. Everything was there, but when I arrived in my destination (Atlanta, Ga)
Some valube items were missing, like my crystal things as gifts for my friends. I contacted the airport and now 3 1/2 years later they haven’t responded or did anything to help.
Could I sue the airport? And has this ever happened to you?
Please share you airport experience.
I was flying with Northwest airlines.
I think those airport earmuff glove guys who stand out in the middle of the track stole it.
Valuble, Sorry! Spelled it wrong!
Oh and if you had this experience at another airport or somewhere else, what did you do?
I will be flying with my 13 month old daughter in a few weeks. I was wondering is anyone has any experience with Sunwing airlines and small kids.
I will be flying alone with her, we have a "direct" flight. It over shoots its destination to land in larger city to pick up /let off passengers then back tracks to our destination, so we’ll be on the one plane about 4-5 hrs but with 2 take-off/landings.
Do you know how their seat size is, do they offer pillows, do they have change tables on board, warm baby food, etc.
Any info will be helpful so I can plan accordingly.
Just a quick outline of my current plan. I’m 14 btw so have a lot of time to think about this. but this is what i came up with:
-do good in high school. aim for the 4.0. I will play baseball (I already do) and track. Apply for the A US academy like USAFA or USNA. if i don’t make it ill go the civil route which is this:
-Get a ppl summer before college. Try to get around 100 hours by the time i finish college.
-go to college and get a bachelors in Accounting.
-Accountant for about 2 years to pay for flight school. loan from parents maybe if i dont make enough has accountant.
-maybe go to 90 day fast track at ATP. Probably not ATP maybe a local FBO. anyways lets say i do go there. I work has a flight instructor for over a year to earn time.
-apply at a regional airline. And go from there to earn time to then work for a major airline.
1. In the first months of 2001, three years after Bin Laden’s 1998 fatwa against the US, Mullah Omar wanted to "resolve or dissolve" the Osama-Taliban nexus in exchange for Washington maneuvering to lift United Nations sanctions. Would anyone from the first George W Bush administration confirm a solid Taliban offer? Kabir Mohabbat, a Houston-based, Paktia (Afghanistan)-born businessman also involved in the (failed) 1990s negotiation for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan pipeline, and then named by Bush’s National Security Council as a key Taliban contact, has sustained that was the case.
2. Eight names on the "original" Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) list of 19 Muslim hijackers happened to be found alive and living in different countries; the FBI has always sustained that the identity of the hijackers was established from DNA collected at all four sites – the World Trade Center (WTC), the Pentagon and the Shanksville, Pennsylvania, crash site. Would the FBI explain how is that remotely possible?
3. All four planes referenced in the official narrative have thousands of parts with a serial number, plus tail numbers. Any one of these would have been enough to identify the plane(s). How come all of these parts disintegrated or vaporized? Why was not a single one of them recovered and/or matched up with all the mass of data about these four flights?
4. How come cell phones miraculously find a signal and work properly at 10,000 meters?
5. How to explain the enormous surge in "option puts" on both United Airlines and American Airlines on September 10?
6. How come the passport of alleged hijacker Satam al Suqami (and not Mohammed Atta, as reported) was miraculously found amid massive World Trade Center debris – either by "police and FBI" or by "a passerby who gave it to the NYPD", according to different versions?
7.Why was a military grade of thermite – a super-explosive – found at all sample sites surrounding Ground Zero? A peer-reviewed, scientific journal analysis is here.
8. How come Barry Jennings, who worked for New York City’s Housing Department, reported on 9/11 to ABC News how he heard an explosion on the 8th floor of WTC 7? Jennings happened to die just a few days before the release of the NIST report on the WTC 7 collapse. A great number of actual 9/11 witnesses also heard and saw explosions going off inside the Twin Towers long before their collapse. A montage of news reports about these explosions can be seen here.
9. Why did the BBC confirm live on air the collapse of the WTC 7 building – which was not even hit by any plane – no less than 23 minutes before it actually collapsed? In the BBC live report, the WTC7 building is shot still standing.
10. Why there has been no investigation of Dov Zakheim? He was a prominent member of the Project for the New American Century group, and chief executive officer of SPC – a company making systems for remote control of airplanes – for four years prior to 9/11. Six months before 9/11, he became supervisor of a group of Pentagon comptrollers responsible for tracking no less than .3 trillion missing from the Pentagon books; many of these comptrollers died on 9/11.
11. The "five dancing Israelis" question. How come Oded Ellner, Omer Marmari, Paul Kurzberg, Sivan Kurzberg and Yaron Shmuel had set up a video camera on top of their white van pointing at the Twin Towers even before they were hit? Later they were seen celebrating. The FBI established that two were Mossad agents and that their employer, Urban Moving Systems, was a front operation. The investigation about them was killed by the White House. After being deported from the US, they admitted on Israeli TV that they had been sent to New York to "document" the attacks. How about other reports of vans packed with tons of explosives intercepted on New York bridges?
12. How come two US employees of Odigo, an Israeli instant messaging company based in Herzliya, the headquarters of Mossad, received an SMS about an attack on the WTC two hours before the fact?
13. How come there was no investigation of ICTS International, owned by Ezra Harel and Menachem Atzmon, and crammed with former Israeli Shin Bet agents? This was the company responsible for airport security at Dulles, Logan and Newark airports on 9/11.
14. Why was there no full investigation of the circumstances related to how Larry Silverstein leased the WTC only seven weeks before 9/11 – as facilitated by New York Port Authority chairman Lewis Eisenberg? Silverstein over-insured the WTC against terrorism and made an astonishing profit.
15. Why were anthrax packages mailed to the only two US senators who voted against the Patriot Act?
16. Why did situation room director Deborah Loewer follow Bush to Florida on 9/11 – considering that’s not part of her job description?
Got to the airport and had to separate my luggage into two bags because of the weight. Both bags have the bag tags given to me but only one has a personal contact tag. I arrived but my luggage did not. I went to the lost luggage in the airport and filed a claim but without the tags they cannot track it. (I lost the tag receipts because usually they put them with your passport but this time the lady put it with my boarding pass which I mistakenly threw away) My question is, is there a way to find your bag tag and get a duplicate receipt based on your flight/personal information? Or how can I get my bags back?
The airlines is British Airways
(I have been traveling BA for a few years now and never had this problem)
You are a dispatcher for a major airline working a very difficult shift. It’s Christmas eve, and the main airport within your region is getting hammered by a winter blizzard.
You keep getting messages from aircraft in flight. Most are in holds waiting for the weather to clear. Some have reported low fuel and are diverting after hour long holds. Others still are landing successfully. Someone is reporting a mechanical issue, another reports a medical emergency.
You skip your coffee break because things are too busy. No one is around to cover your shift, fellow dispatchers are also swamped. Too many booked today off, others called in sick. Usually they are your closest friends, and you know they aren’t sick but they aren’t here. You are working hard, bonus pay is probably in the cards, but you don’t need it. Your goal is to get everyone home safely for Christmas, you know your job and you do it well.
You look at the weather, the major airport is below minimum take-off requirements. No big deal, the weather displayed updates infrequently, the pilots have immediate conditions and report conditions bad, but constantly changing. There are long lines and delays, but planes are still departing.
Everyone is delayed. You do your best trying to keep track of all the delays, adjusting timeslots, making the best use of the planes you have available. You make sure the airport and crews stay informed about the delays so they can pass information to the passengers.
The phone rings again, it’s the airport manager. His crews on the floor and ramp are getting swamped. They are understaffed, overworked, and the bad weather is making the situation so much worse. He’s asking you to ground all your airplanes at that airport.
Its Christmas Eve, thousands of people trying to get home. You have three planes boarded and waiting for pushback. Two planes are in the deicing bay nearly ready to go. You watch a timecode pop up indicating a plane has just taken off. You check the weather report, it remains unchanged.
The airport manager presses harder, he doesn’t have the authority to shut things down just yet, but if the weather gets a little worse then he will. He figures if you shut down now, the other airlines will follow suit shortly thereafter.
You get another message, a plane which is now two and a half hours late has just began boarding.
Can existing pa systems at airports and stadiums and other places be adapted and used to control a direct paging/tracking system to find missing passengers and also to connect other control rooms to eachother (like broadband) to improve security at airports and stadiums on ferries and cruise liners? For example can we connect computers and wireless transcievers to speaker cables and create a whole new security or paging system for airports and other places. Sleeping passengers, drunk, ill or dead passengers can’t see flight screens or hear annoucements so paging/tracking all passengers direct would reduce plane downtime and reduce misery for thousands of delayed travellers. But what if some airport PA systems are wireless and not cabled? Can they be adapted to page/track awaiting passengers? If they could, why has UK patent GB2387993 not been snapped up by the airline industry? This patent seems really simple but would it work with wireless PA systems which have no cables to use?
Is there any way I can track a flight from the past and find out information from it? I’ve asked 2 other questions about call-signs and serial numbers, because the first time i’ve ever flown, I didn’t think to take a picture of the airplanes call-sign, because I was exited that there was such a huge, awesome plane on the other side of the window. Could I type in information and find out what the Call-sign was?
Heres the info:
Date: May 18th, 2009
Estimated Departure: 8:05 AM
Airline: UNITED AIRLINES
Aircraft: AIRBUS INDUSTRIE A320
Departure City: Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport
Arrival City: Denver International Airport
The Aircrafts Serial number was: 4869 (Thats the number painted on the side of the plane), I checked the FAA files, and it showed up as two very old, suspended aircraft, I believe they were both turbo-prop aircraft…
