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New Jet Lagged Blog Painfully Boring

December 12, 2007 at 11:17 AM | 1 Comment

We had our hopes so high, only to have them crash to the ground. So far, the new blog Jet Lagged has produced five dry essays, none of which told us anything particularly new or insightful. And, to think, great writers populate the masthead!

Don't agree? Let's go to the video tape. The latest post, from flight attendant Elliott Hester, is all about airline food. We'll give you one guess as to his opinion on it:

For as long as I've been pushing a meal cart, the cheese omelets have been dry and tasteless. The chicken Kiev, if you can remember that far back, was in fact a bastion of butter and grease. The salads were (and still are, in first and business class) a tribute to limp lettuce.

This is news? Fine, we thought, maybe commercial pilot Patrick Smith has some fresh new ideas for reducing airport congestion. Right?

Ultimately, we are dealing not with an airspace problem so much as a groundspace problem...If you ask me, the last best hope is for airlines to better organize their schedules and wean themselves away from their reliance on regional jets.

The only example he gives of this happening without government intervention is with Delta's international departures--routes that weren't served by RJs to begin with. And isn't the groundspace problem exactly what the DOT wants to fix at JFK?

We'd take a couple snipes at Clark Kent Ervin's we've-heard-it-all-before post about "security theater", but we already know that airport security sucks.

Jet Lagged is scheduled, says the Times, to run through the month of December. That gives them 19 more days to come up with something fresh to say!