Posted by transportgooru on September 2, 2010 in
Aviation,
Funny Stuff,
Society/Social Issues,
Travel Why doesn’t these things NEVER happen in my flights? Hmmm.. But I am happy for these folks who had a bit of entertainment to cheer up during their long flight and a story to tell when they land.. Silly me can’t help but think aloud about these questions: what would the reaction be if these guys were a bunch of middle-eastern musicians wearing traditional garbs – how would the airline staff react to such a spontaneous request to play music?
Tags: Airline, Airlines, Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Aviation, Aviation Security, Concert on 787, Impromptu Mozart Concert, KLM, Mostly Mozart Festival, Music, Orchestra, Travel
Posted by transportgooru on August 26, 2010 in
Aviation,
Economy,
Finance,
Funny Stuff,
Research,
Travel Airline ticket prices often seem like a brain-teaser with little logic. From Chicago, a flight to Miami is more than twice as far as a flight to Memphis, but the shorter Memphis flight costs 25% more on average. Fly to Washington, D.C., from Hartford, Conn., and the average fare is nearly three times as high as if you flew to nearby Baltimore from Hartford, according to government data for the first quarter of this year.
Tags: Airline, Airline Tickets, Aviation, Cost of Air Travel, Low-cost carrier, Ticket pricing, Travel, Wall Street Journal, WSJ
Posted by transportgooru on August 17, 2010 in
Automotives,
Aviation,
Economy,
Energy,
Freight,
Governance,
Highways,
Publications,
Research,
Transit,
Travel The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy has released the latest issue of its annual statistical compendium designed to characterize transportation activity and explore data on other factors that influence transportation energy use.
Tags: Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, ORNL, Statistics, Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 29, U.S. Department of Energy, United States Department of Energy, USDOE
The Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) has released a special report that explores how several February 2010 snowstorms in the Northeast, Midwest, and Southeast disrupted air travel at airports across the United States. Quite an interesting read and for your reading pleasure it is provided below.
Tags: Airline, Bureau of Transportation Statistics, U.S. Department of Transportation, United States Department of Transportation
Posted by transportgooru on August 16, 2010 in
Aviation,
Education,
Environment,
Research,
Space,
Travel The first flight of NASA’s hurricane airborne research mission is scheduled to take off from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., on Tuesday, Aug. 17. NASA’s DC-8 research aircraft will be making a planned five-hour flight along the Gulf Coast from western Florida to Louisiana primarily as a practice run for the many scientific instruments aboard.
Tags: Atmospheric Sciences, DC-8, Earth Sciences, Florida, Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes mission, GRIP, Hurricane Hunter, NASA, NASA Dryden, North Dakota State University, Research, Tropical cyclone, Wind speed
Posted by transportgooru on August 11, 2010 in
Aviation,
Careers,
Governance,
Research The Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) seeks a Transportation Industry Analyst to join our team. RITA coordinates the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) research programs and is charged with advancing rigorous analysis and the deployment of cross-cutting technologies to improve our Nation’s transportation system.
Tags: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Research and Innovative TEchnology Administration, United States Department of Transportation, Washington DC
Posted by transportgooru on August 2, 2010 in
Gizmos News (via Gizmodo),
Research,
Space,
Travel “Quantum entanglement” may sound like an awful sci-fi romance flick, but it’s actually a phenomenon that physicists say may someday lead to the ability to teleport an object all the way across the galaxy instantly.
Tags: Joint Quantum Institute, Michio Kaku, Physics, Quantum entanglement, Quantum mechanics, Quantum teleportation, Star Trek, Teleportation
Irish carrier Ryan Air is already well known for its aggressive low fares and its brow raising strategies. Now they are at it again. But this time with an announcement that says it’s working on a “standing-room-only” vertical seating section in the tail end of its 250 planes, which seats would cost as little as £5 — or roughly 8USD.
Tags: Airline, Aviation, Boeing, Charging to Use the Loo, Cheap Flights, European Aviation Air Charter, Ryanair, Standing Room Only
Today Google announced it will buy online travel software company ITA Software for $700 million cash, a move that positions the search giant in the highly competitive airfare market, pitting it against the likes of Bing Travel, Expedia and Kayak.
Tags: Airfare search engine, Bing, Google, ITA, Kayak, Travel Search
Posted by transportgooru on February 23, 2010 in
Aviation,
Defense/Military,
Gizmos News (via Gizmodo),
Space This week the Israeli Air Force (IAF) held a ceremony spotlighting the “operational acceptance” of its biggest unmanned aerial vehicle, the 4.5-ton Heron TP, or “Eitan.” The far-flying UAV, with a wingspan almost as long as a 737 airliner, appeared on the runway with a comparatively diminutive F-15 alongside it.
Tags: Heron TP, Heron TP-5, IAI, Iran Nuclear Threat, Israel Unmanned Drones, Israeli Aircraft Industries, Super Drones, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
