Regulation
Getting the government out of the airport
If you’re visiting the “Locker Room” while waiting for your flight home for Thanksgiving, or while waiting to pick up a friend or family member returning home for the holiday,…
Lisbon
municipality and capital city of Portugal
Transportation
Austin vs. Uber explored
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online considers the Texas capital’s ban on the popular alternative to taxis. Austin … is cool with being second-rate. It always has been. Austin spent…
Transportation
Charlotte Aviation baseline 2015: US Airways and American Airlines
And this would be a summary of US Airways and American Airlines fights from Charlotte Douglas International Airport for Thursday, August 13, 2015: US Airways flights by aircraft type: Widebody:…
Liberty
The skies above Charlotte are always sunny, item #5,978,134
The UPoR had a piece over the weekend on how Charlotte Douglas International Airport ranked last year. Problems in the story? Absolutely. Consider this passage, the last paragraph of the…
Liberty
US Airways/American Airlines CLT summer flight preview
US Airways and American Airlines summer schedules are now more-or-less set, so it’s time for a comparison of this summer’s flight levels as compared to last summer’s service levels: The…
Liberty
US Airways drops second CLT-Frankfurt flight
Another schedule update from US Airways was uploaded last night. The highlights: US Airways has resolved its overscheduling of its Airbus A330-200 fleet next summer by dropping its second (summer-seasonal)…
Liberty
The UPoR discovers some CLT-Europe flights at risk
And puts it on the front page of Friday’s paper “American Airlines executives hint at Charlotte flight cuts.” Well yes they did say during yesterday’s conference call. But the even…
Liberty
US Airways draft summer schedule to Europe out
It’s less bad for CLT than feared. The airline’s offerings to Europe in June 2015 from Charlotte Douglas International Airport: London Heathrow: 2 daily, on an A330-300 and an A330-200…
Liberty
2014 Charlotte aviation baseline
Bookmark this as a reference to what air service levels were like early in the American Airlines/US Airways merger integration. US Airways and American Airlines fights from Charlotte for Thursday,…
Liberty
US Airways reduces Brussels and Lisbon service
Before its merger with American Airlines was approved, US Airways announced plans to add daily summer-seasonal service to four additional destinations in Europe this summer: Manchester, England; Brussels, Belgium; Lisbon,…
Liberty
US Airways adds four (!) European routes from CLT
Typically, I go out of town for the weekend just as the city’s dominate airline loads onto its website and other reservation systems four new seasonal flights to Europe. These…
Liberty
A cautionary tale about an overly powerful public sector
This forum has documented in the past the problems associated with overly powerful public-sector unions. For a sense of how those problems can play out when public-sector unions hold even…