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The operator on that run is Coach USA (unless it just changed in the last few months), but the bus usually has an "Amtrak California" livery. Luggage bigger than a backpack is put under the bus.

Proterra has been on borrowed time for a while. Their buses were more tech demo/prototype than suited to constant operation; major components were held together with glue, which didn't stand up to the sort of rough treatment a transit bus is subject to.

The CONO seems very over-represented on that list. It has 7, while the Zephyr (which makes twice as many stops) has 6.

As soon as I post here I get a decline email. Oh well! Presumably I passed the strength test, which will make other positions easier to apply for.

Qantas flew the rather slow PBY Catalina flying boat as an airliner on “Double Sunrise” flights between Australia and India/Sri Lanka-30ish hours airborne nonstop.

I applied for a station agent position back in May, and did a strength test in June. Still “under review” (dated May) and no further communication. Seems like they’re slow all over.

Hey, I went to high school with that newscaster!

BBD and their workforce must be reeeally mad at Boeing. The (pretty ridiculous) dumping petition Boeing did scared them into selling the CS to Airbus, seemingly fearing the plane wouldn't be sellable in the US without them, and then the MAX mess showed up. And now....the now-A220 is quite well...

I don't really disagree with the idea in concept, and for systems with poor fare recovery the cost of collection and enforcement can be a measurable part of what gets taken in. But I also don't think it's a good general idea. If an agency like MTA or BART-which get over 50% of their operating...

It's a "transit should be free" thing, which is the cause de jour of a certain culture of activism that largely has no idea how anything works and thinks "just ban cars" is a plausible, unproblematic method to do everything they want. OP is deeply ridiculous as well, though.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

As we all predicted, Condor has been bought by *checks notes* uh, LOT Polish Airlines. Interesting!

It really sounds like she sat in a car that was either not being used anymore or being held for those boarding in Baltimore or Philly. The Rosa Parks comparison is...let's call it "a bit Much"...but at the same time, it's not obvious there was any real reason to ask her to move since she was...

I'm currently reading Airframe, a Michael Crichton novel about the investigation into an air emergency resulting from the apparent spontaneous deployment of a poorly-documented feature, noting uncomfortably cozy relationships between the manufacturer and the FAA and highly varying pilot and...

What.

I've seen several Tweets to the effect of "The Germans are saving THEIR workers' jobs (Condor) but our government won't save ours!" But it makes sense that the nuance of "that company is actually viable and they'll almost certainly be able to pay back the loan they're getting" is lost when one...

Interestingly, the reason I even know what Thomas Cook is was that they were going to fly nonstops London-Reno a few years ago. Bureaucratic hassles (we don't have enough Customs presence to process an A330's worth of passengers in a reasonable amount of time, basically) ended up canning it...

Makes sense. What goes around comes around? It seems like the two main things that did TC in were: 1) A truly nuts number of largely unproductive storefronts (how much rent was this company paying for all that prime retail space?), and doubling down on the in-person business model when package...

Wonder what will happen to Condor.

The weirdest part of this story has to be: "The sales of macadamia nuts rose nearly 250 percent shortly after the incident"