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It's Official, Just Blame Your Airline Delay Squarely on New York City

February 2, 2012 at 9:08 AM | by | Comments (0)

The next time you’re stuck in the terminal—or on the tarmac—with nowhere to go, there’s now officially someone to blame for your delay and disturbance. It’s actually not a person but more of a place, as it’s New York City that’s likely the spot causing all of the trouble.

The New York Times looked into the causes behind a lot of these airport and airplane inconveniences, and they found that the city’s busy air traffic and multiple airports are the places to blame. There’s been different flight plans from the FAA and even less planes overall thanks to the dip in the economy, but that still hasn’t helped the congestion up in the skies above the greater metropolitan area. Apparently the city’s three major airports—along with the airport in Philadelphia—accounted for around 12 percent of all the country’s domestic flights, but those few flights created like half of all delays.

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Delta Will Go All In with Their Huge Expansion at New York's LaGuardia Airport

December 23, 2011 at 8:41 AM | by | Comments (0)

Last week we just scratched the surface about what Delta has planned for New York’s LaGuardia Airport, but this week all the juicy details have been released for new cities and new flights. Overall it looks like Delta is really building up LGA as sort of a new domestic hub, as they’ve got flights heading out of the Big Apple to here, there, and everywhere.

Some of the flights were part of a trade off with US Airways, so a few routes are staying the same—they’re just getting new planes, pilots, and flight attendants to fly back and forth. In total there’s like 100 new daily flights to 30 different cities, and it’s all happening from LGA.

Meanwhile, Delta is hard at work on the other side of Queens at JFK, building new stuff and updating terminals, but with all these new flights and new cities we hope that the bulldozers and hardhats take a hop on the Van Wyck Expressway when they’re done.

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Aiming a Laser at an Airplane is Not Cool. In Fact, It's Dangerous.

November 11, 2011 at 2:51 PM | by | Comments (0)

In 2005 there were 283 US incidents in which pilots coming in for landings had lasers aimed at their eyes. By 2010 the number had risen to 2,836 incidents per year. By October of this year we had already had 2,795 reports, which means we're easily going to clear the 2010 figure.

Another six incidents were reported at LGA just last weekend. The laser strikes were done with the relatively new and significantly more powerful green-color lasers, which are extra-dangerous. The FAA, suffice it to say, has declared itself to be unamused.

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Gold Seat Belts and Sinks? It's Got to Be Donald Trump's New Boeing 757

August 30, 2011 at 9:45 AM | by | Comment (1)

It's been almost five months since we last talked about Donald Trump's new private jet, and that—dear friends—is about 4 months and 29 days too long.

Back in April, The Donald took delivery of his specially outfitted Boeing 757, meanwhile putting his old 727 up for sale. His new toy is a $100 million work of art, but it's not just off the assembly line; this 757 formerly belonged to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Enough of history—let's talk about right now. Donald's 757 seats/beds 43 passengers and boasts a 16-hour range, but duh we just want to see the master bedroom and all the gold-plated sinks in the thing. That's where the video tour comes in:

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Guzzling Some Avion Tequila During Delta SkyClub's Thursday Happy Hours

August 9, 2011 at 9:38 AM | by | Comments (0)

To celebrate the arrival of Avión Tequila at Delta SkyClub airport lounges, Delta and Avión have been hosting happy hour shindigs from 5pm to 7pm on Thursdays. We just happened to be in the neighborhood last week, and we’re already looking forward to another layover filled with agave spirits.

While killing some time in Atlanta we made our way to the SkyClub in the center of Concourse A near the Chili’s—after stopping at Chick-fil-A obviously. We got there a little early and warmed up with a glass of Sweetwater Pale Ale and waited for 5pm to arrive.

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Five Golf Courses Easily Accessible to Both Fairways and Runways

June 1, 2011 at 9:50 AM | by | Comments (0)

If you’re looking for something to do between flights—and you always travel with your clubs—there might be a place convenient to both the fairways and the runways. Check out our picks for some of the best golf courses that are like only 10 miles from the airport or less:

· Colwood National Golf Club - PDX
There’s four courses that are within a short cab ride from Portland International Airport, but the easiest to access is Colwood National Golf Club. It’s so close to the airport—as well as the Air National Guard Station—that there are places where you can see the planes taxi and take off.

It’s a full 18-hole course, and this summer playing all the holes will set you back around $30. There are a lot of red-eye flights out of PDX back to the east coast—and beyond—so we recommend hitting up one of their twilight specials before heading to the airport. On Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays it's just $9 to play 8-holes as long as you begin after 3:00pm.

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Is New York City Getting Another Airport Nearby JFK?

April 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM | by | Comment (1)

Everyone knows that the New York City area could use another airport—or at least a major revamp of the existing facilities—but the problem is that there’s just no darned space to construct what's required. Well apparently there’s some underutilized property in Brooklyn that could be the area’s third airport—or fourth if you’re cool counting Newark. Floyd Bennett Field was once home to famous aviators like Amelia Earhart and Howard Hughes, and now some want it to reopen as a hub for the modern traveler.

The old airfield sits on Jamaica Bay with JFK Airport not too far off in the distance, so it’s in a pretty decent location to help out all those airplane traffic jams. With the new advances in air traffic control technology, the thinking is that this spot could be used without interfering with all the comings and goings at JFK. The only issue is that the airport is hardly ready to go, as runways would need to be lengthened, terminals would need to be built, and Uncle Sam would need to hand it over to someone like the Port Authority.

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TSA Chases Down Passenger at Airport Gate for an Enhanced Pat-down

March 28, 2011 at 3:36 PM | by | Comments (9)

So far this month, our TSA stories have focused on how the agency's full-body scanners are more dangerous and less effective than the public was led to believe. We've also discussed how security officials tried to cover up those problems, in yet another example of TSA responding to criticism with "we know what's best for you so shut up" condescension. So focused have we been on the scanner issue that we've let a month go by without a story about how TSA bad apples abuse their power and humiliate passangers. Obviously things couldn't stay that way indefinitely.

Meet Nancy Campbell, a 33 year old woman who was reduced to tears after LaGuardia TSA tracked her down at her gate to give her a very public, three minute grope search. As is typical of TSA abuse stories, the agent made a point of patronizingly reminding Campbell that she was powerless, telling her "you can either continue on flailing about, or you can let me do my job. If you don't, you can't fly."

No one at the TSA has explained why a passenger needed to undergo an enhanced patdown after clearing security or why it had to happen that way, by that agent, with that treatment— but you'll be happy to know that they're looking into it.

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Big Changes May Be on the Way for NYC-Area Airports

February 1, 2011 at 8:52 AM | by | Comments (0)

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of flying to or through any of the New York City area airports, it was probably fairly clear that they could use a little bit of help. Many of the terminals at LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark are older and lacking, and worst of all there are just too many darn people and planes trying to escape and arrive at any given time—so delays are pretty much the expectation and the norm.

A new little research plan from the folks over at the Regional Plan Association agree that things are less than ideal, and they only see things getting worse as travel demands increase over the next 20 years or so—especially if nothing is done to prepare for the influx of planes and passengers. They’ve offered up a little bit of a plan to hopefully fix things in the future, but unfortunately it’s going to cost like $15 billion across the three airports.

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New Scenery at LaGuardia Airport: A $100 Million Dollar Control Tower

Where: LaGuardia Airport [map], New York, NY, United States
January 25, 2011 at 10:06 AM | by | Comments (0)

Are you flying into and/or out of New York's LaGuardia Airport anytime soon? If yes, make sure to grab a window not only for the envious views of Manhattan, but also because the airport is showing off a shiny new Air Traffic Control Tower. The thing cost $100 million dollars and though it looks like a bastion of last defense for some medieval fortress (see a finished pic here), it's supposedly going to help controllers bring in more planes, faster.

Fun fact: LaGuardia is the United States' busiest airport without direct flights to Europe. It's also got a fun little curfew, which means that most flights are in and tucked for the night at their gates before midnight. If the New York Port Authority is looking to quickly earn back some of the money they spent raising the tower, they could always turn a level of it into a hot new late-night disco! We'd go to that.

[Photo of the construction in 2008: Jaunted]

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All Three NYC-Area Airports Are Now Back in Business

December 28, 2010 at 9:39 AM | by | Comments (0)

Rejoice! All you stranded travelers and those waiting at home for them will surely be thrilled to hear that, after tentatively re-welcoming flights last night, New York City's three major airports are back open and in business. These include New York-JFK, New York-LaGuardia and Newark-Liberty, each a major hub and devastating to the rest of the system when closed.

Looking at FlightStats.com—which is where we originally saw our own flight cancelled before the airline had sent a notification email—we see that American Airlines is the only one really outright canceling flights still. Delta too is having a rough starts, with many flight delays approaching two hours, but hey—at least they are flying.

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Snowpocalypse! East Coast Blizzard Causes Epic Shutdown

December 27, 2010 at 11:11 AM | by | Comments (0)

We thought Midwest (not to mention UK) air traffic two weeks ago was a total mess, and that things couldn't get much worse. Turns out we called that putt a little too early. If you're reading this right now, you're not suffering power outages like the 60,000 people in Massachusetts or the 16,000 people in New York or the 2,300 people in Rhode Island or the 40,000 people in Canada. So congratulations on that we suppose.

You're also not reading this from a New York airport, since those have been shut since last night. JFK, EWR, and LGA aren't projected to reopen until 4pm EST today, at which point they will have been offline for about about 24 hours each. That shouldn't be a problem, since it's not like a lot of people live in that region or like this was a weekend where lots of people were vacationing.

Ditto for the wave of airport cancellations that hit all three DC airports, plus Boston, Charlotte, Philadelphia, etc etc. Amtrak between New York and Boston is also shut down, so if you were desperately hoping to get to Logan and take the train into New York—which you probably couldn't do anyway—that won't work either.

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