Congress did step in last month to undo furloughs for air traffic controllers after a week of coast-to-coast flight delays, and lawmakers have found money for meat inspectors.
But Hurricane Sandy - aka Frankenstorm - had already started knocking east coast flight schedules around when I turned up for my Ohio flight, and as devoted Twitter followers will have seen, I drove.
On the holiday weekend that closed out the summer of 1940, Lindbergh came nowhere near besting the record time for a coast-to-coast nonstop flight that he'd himself set a decade back with an aircraft more advanced than the old Spirit of St.
While distance seems an obstacle in the selection process, for many students on the east coast, the flight time to the United Kingdom is around the same as if they had chosen a school on the west coast.
FORBES: Influx of American Students Cross the Pond for Education
On Friday, finally, sitting through a six-hour flight back to the East Coast, it hit me.
FORBES: The Rise of Shared Value and Four Other Trends in CSR
First, on a flight back from the East Coast, my travel laptop failed when its relatively new SSD bricked.
From his home in Dallas, Mr. Seaney finds the cheapest flight to his destination from a West Coast city, then a cheap ticket from Dallas to that West Coast gateway.
Off the coast of New York, the second aircraft's weather radar failed and the flight was diverted back to JFK. They landed at 9:07 a.m. and waited until the afternoon for a new crew.
WSJ: Flight Nightmares Overshadow Airlines�� Improving Record
The flight criss-crossed a massive warm front edging across the English Channel towards the coast of Cornwall.
In Alaska, in September 2008, the US Coast Guard had just started operations in the Arctic and we joined a C-130 patrol flight to Barrow.
Two days ago I was in San Diego, desperately trying to figure out a way to get to home to the Northeast after my flight was cancelled (quite prematurely) in advance of Hurricane Sandy reaching the east coast.
FORBES: Hurricane Sandy's Lesson to Travelers: Use A Travel Agent
"All the big pioneers of the 20th century have tried to fly coast to coast across America, " Piccard, one of the plane's founders, said before the flight.
应用推荐