Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The ATA Smart Brief for the past couple of weeks has been nothing but doom and gloom. Losses, capacity cuts, aircraft decommissioning. What a pleasure to get today's headline: Southwest Airlines reports 15% increase in second quarter profits. Southwest, their incredible hedging, their on-time performance, their amazing sometimes sub 20 ...
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
BART's service tweaks coupled with gas prices and tourism seem to have paid off: BART to SFO ridership jumps 65% As a loyal BART rider, I'm glad to see this sort of positive feedback to increased service. Hopefully they'll consider extending rush hour service past 6pm for the late-night grad ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Carl Pope, the Sierra Club president, was on the Colbert Report on Monday July 21. Highlights include Stephen asking Carl if he flew from San Francisco, his home, to DC for the interview on a spotted owl, as well as Stephen thanking him at the end for emitting 2 tons ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Today's NY Times has an opinion piece by Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters. In this piece, Peters advocates strongly for peak-period or demand-based pricing and notes the inefficiencies presented by the current weight-based fee. She explains economic principles using aviation examples. She notes the contradictory nature of the airlines ...
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