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  Destination Dispersion: CO2 Much Tourism? (Premise). Immediately Pre-Pandemic—What could Orlando, Rome, Yosemite Valley and Tanzania possibly have in common? Try congenital congestion… If Egypt’s tour bus explosion, Venice’s tourist tsunami, Everest fatal...

February 2, 2020—A recent Office of Special Counsel response to whistleblower complaints concluded that the Federal Aviation Administration may have given Southwest Airlines undue preferential regulatory treatment in early 2019. The charge involves FAA managers cutting corners,...

Latest tourism outfit to fold like a beach chair? Witness the sudden collapse of Thomas Cook Group. Great Britain’s oldest, largest tour company announced last Monday that it has “ceased trading with immediate effect”, albeit with many of its planes still in the...

+ Doggone Dilemma. Getting Testy. (3/14/24)—Will they ever learn? Namely a student pilot who attempted to storm the cockpit of a recent cross-country flight. One Nathan Jones, 19, boarded Alaska Airlines Flight 322 in San Diego, a 737-900 bound for Washington D.C., and was seated...

Yes, they are chronic, to say the least: a spate of harrowing runway touch ‘n’ throes. It seems airliner takeoffs and landings have been giving rise to an alarming array of airport woes of late, from close calls to flaming calamities. So here’s a jet stream of...