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| | Have you ever double-checked your boarding pass and looked around to make sure you're boarding the right flight? Well, you're not alone. Stories of passengers accidentally getting on the wrong plane are more common than you might think, as highlighted by a recent anecdote shared by a traveler who narrowly avoided flying to the wrong city. In a series of messages recounting the incident, the traveler described how they found themselves on a plane bound for Oslo instead of their intended destination, Berge...
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| | Reasons to ban short-haul flights:- We're in a climate crisis.- They're truly inefficient as mode of transportation.- Trains are generally cheaper.- Trains are often quicker. Airport processing sometimes takes as much time as the flight itself.- There's precedent (Austria banned domestic flights that could be travelled in less than 3 hours by train. France wanted...
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| | This time, some advice of a lighter sort. How light? Depends how well you pack!
| | www.loweringthebar.net
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| In the most recent example of this expensive and potentially deadly practice, on January 17 two F-15s were scrambled to intercept an Alaska Airlines flight on its way to Seattle. Apparently someone...