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Pro tip from an absolute rando: don’t bother with any source of breaking news. Read a weekly paper that summarises the important stuff. If something is truly pressing, you’ll hear about it from friends or coworkers.
Suggestions for some sources to read? I know the Economist, anything else others would recommend?
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Eventually it all folds into one management org, that is the whole issue. I wouldn't expect two parallel cultures in a org, one for safety, one for entertainment systems.
My point is more that non-functional infotainment on one single flight is just simply nowhere near enough data to judge a whole organization.
https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1lb7knp/air_india...
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> Emirates needs the huge capacities of the A380. I think it's more that they needed the prestige of having the biggest planes, offering a whole bedroom with shower etc. It goes well with their ultra luxury image. If it's just about seats that can fly smaller ones with the benefit that they can operate more frequently and thus attract more transit passengers looking for a good connection. That's their main market. An…
That airports are usually not an effective destination for the B747/A380. Connect major hubs like FRA with JFK and it makes sense. You need capacity, it is a long route and slots are rare and expensive. And for Emirates the hub concept is crucial. But yes. The luxury thing is also part of their show. But it fills the plane ;)
Many operators dropped the 380 during COVID. Makes sense but they never took them back on afterwards and passenger numbers are higher than ever before now. The A380 is cool but it was built for the past not the future.
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The whistleblower in your linked article, Sam Salehpour, is still alive.
Oh ! , you're right I'll edit the comment (wont let me edit anymore, i hope others read this comment). I mixed him with the other Boeing Whistleblower John Barnett Thanks ! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barnett_(whistleblower)
Now whether he was driven to suicide by Boeing's unrelenting and unending persecution campaign against him as a whistleblower is another, perfectly valid question.
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Let's say the price of petrol goes up for me. Does it matter if I know why?
I feel like it can matter a lot to be able to make a reasonably reliable prediction about whether it's likely to go up or down tomorrow and by about how much, and thus whether and when to act on the potential need to ensure some sort of access to supply. For me, that largely entails just not doing anything. I do own a car but rarely use it since my neighborhood is very walkable, and the tank is usually close to full.…
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I feel like it can matter a lot to be able to make a reasonably reliable prediction about whether it's likely to go up or down tomorrow and by about how much, and thus whether and when to act on the potential need to ensure some sort of access to supply. For me, that largely entails just not doing anything. I do own a car but rarely use it since my neighborhood is very walkable, and the tank is usually close to full.…
At that point you may as well day trade oil futures. Its at least easier than trying to time when to fill your gas tank based on geopolitics.
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At that point you may as well day trade oil futures. Its at least easier than trying to time when to fill your gas tank based on geopolitics.
You say that as though they were two semiotically distinguishable activities. Futures trading is wholesale and what we talked about is retail, but they are the same general line of business and if you think no one would ever do it to try to avoid waiting all day for an empty pump, then check out how the 70s oil shock and supply crisis - the last time anyone ever dared "sanction" the U. S. and A. - played out here dom…
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I don't think it received anything? Besides a VAT of 3%? But it is the voice of it's 3 owners.
You can read all about it here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aides_%C3%A0_la_presse_en_Fran... if you want and if you understand French. Basically the French new outlets are some of the most subsidized on the planet. Just to give you some quick figures, in 2010, the French government gave news outlets 1.8B euros in subsidies and in 2012 another 1.2B euros. There is no mention of the subsidies in the years after that…
At the end, the goal is to have as many different sources and make your own opinions from their analysis.
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There is a video circulating that the air con was off on the previous flight - that might indicate why the APU was off for the crash flight as well.
Air conditioning is powered by bleed air from the engines (or the APU or a ground source). The APU wouldn't be running during any normal flight, it's normally only ever used on the ground when the engines are off and there's no external power source. So I am not sure what you are trying to say here, sorry.
... on the ground - sorry I forgot to add that.