Showing posts with label air traffic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air traffic. Show all posts
Sunday, May 4, 2025

Air traffic control problems follow layoffs of air traffic control staff

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 I'll be flying later today, so this news item caught my eye about a United flight from SFO to Newark that turned around over Nebraska a...
Thursday, September 1, 2022

Elizabeth "Betsy" E. Bailey (1939-2022)

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  Betsey Bailey, an economist of many parts, has passed away. I knew of her both as an academic dean at CMU and as a proponent of airline de...
Sunday, September 6, 2020

Transplant transport: direct commercial flights boost deceased donor transplants, by Wang, Zheng, and Dai

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 Alex Chan draws my attention to this paper on airline transport of kidneys for transplant: Does Transportation Mean Transplantation? Impact...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Deceased donor organs, lost to transplantation due to problems in transportation

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NBC News has the story: Lost luggage: How lifesaving organs for transplant go missing in transit Scores of organs — mostly kidneys — are...
Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Drone delivery of a kidney for transplant

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Here's the press release from the University of Maryland, Pioneering Breakthrough: University of Maryland's Schools of Medicine an...
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Mishaps while flying transplant organs

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This news story stopped with the plane, and doesn't say what happened to the organ... No one hurt when jet scheduled to pick up donor ...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Congestion in airports--landing at Logan

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One of the things that makes airports congested is the safety margin needed between planes as they takeoff and land. So I was a little surp...
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Friday, May 15, 2009

Auctions of airport slots: dead in the water, again.

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The latest news on plans to auction off takeoff and landing slots at NY's LaGuardia airport: DOT scraps auction plan for NYC airports ....
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008

Auctions of airport takeoff and landing slots--maybe not so soon after all

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Auctions of slots at NYC airports delayed yet again: Court Order Delays Auction of Landing Slots at Airports "A court order on Monday d...
Sunday, December 7, 2008

Auctions of airport takeoff and landing slots--maybe coming soon

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U.S. to Auction Slots Soon at New York City Airports reports the Times. "The auction is scheduled for next Friday, with results annou...
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Thursday, October 9, 2008

Auctions for airline takeoff and landing slots, continued

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Feds Go Forward With NYC Airport Experiment Plans for slot auctions at LaGuardia, Kennedy, and Newark continue, but it sounds like the fight...
Thursday, September 18, 2008

Delay banking for air traffic

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NASA proposes Delay banking for managing air traffic . The idea is that an airline whose flight was delayed by air traffic controllers would...