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You’ve just boarded your aircraft and maybe you’re feeling a little smug because you already know so much stuff, like why planes still have ashtrays (even though smoking on planes…
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Happy Saturday friends, and hooray, it’s finally the weekend! Here’s a recap of what’s gone on at YMMV this week. From what we’ve written to what others wrote that we really liked and wanted to share, it’s all here, in one conve…
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Never mind a whole new month, it’s a whole new year! Happy New Year, travel friends! Here are our most popular posts for December 2019. Some of them were actually written before December (heads up that rules and offers change and we can’t guarant…
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Airplanes are super expensive to make, so when airlines purchase them, they’re expecting a lot of years of service. Still though, even under the best of aviation circumstances, good things must come to an end and all aircraft are eventually retir…
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If you’ve ever traveled on a plane and gotten the chance to look at any of the jet engines, you may have noticed a white spiral painted in the center. I had an idea of why it might be there, but I wasn’t sure, so I did some research. Here&#…
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You see headlines about it every couple of months: “Man tries to open plane door in mid-air after suffering a panic attack” “Suicidal Delta passenger tries to open plane door during mid-flight” “Ryanair passenger tries to …
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Have you ever noticed that the inside of airplanes are HUGE but their windows are tiny? What’s up with that? Well, it turns out there are a couple of reasons… Structural integrity The metal that makes up the hull of a plane is made to be su…
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And BOOM, another month is done! Hello, November! Here are our most popular posts for October 2019. Some of them were actually written before October (heads up that rules and offers change and we can’t guarantee that those older ones are still accurate…
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Have you ever seen the flight patterns of flights from Japan to the United States? They never go directly across the Pacific Ocean to get to, say, San Francisco. They…
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Happy Wednesday to all of our travel friends, both near and far! Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like, as well, so we’re passing them along. Gary from View From The Wing posted a very inte…
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When planes are flying over land, they are usually watched over by, and keep in contact with air traffic control (ATC). VERY simply put, whichever ATC tower’s jurisdiction/zone you’re in while en route to your destination, that’s who …
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Toilets on planes are loud. I mean really loud. Loud enough where they’ve scared people (especially kids), been discussed by stand up comedians, imitated by an a cappella music group, and videotaped and put onto YouTube. People have wondered why …
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Not long ago, I wrote a post about how different countries were looking at different ways to make their carbon footprint smaller. Most have proposed imposing some sort of tax on the airlines, although a few have suggested other methods such as outlawin…
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Every day, the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights, for a total of 16.1+M flights per year. If you look at worldwide numbers, estimates from 2018 suggest that at times, there can be more than 200,000 flight…
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Airlines are doing everything they can to decrease greenhouse gas emissions. They have commercial planes fly at the “sweet spot” of energy efficiency. They’ve come up with all sorts of crazy ways to decrease weight so they don’t…
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Happy Sunday to all of our travel friends, both near and far! Here are some articles we’ve read from other bloggers (and other sources) that we think you may like, as well, so we’re passing them along. Gilbert at God Save The Points wrote a piece about…
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According to the National Weather Service, lightning strikes about 25 million times a year and kills an average of 49 people. But how often does it strike planes? Believe it or not, it’s estimated that every plane in the U.S. commercial fleet is …
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Lots of businesses have their own special codes for their staff to be aware of emergencies. When I worked in a hospital, “Code Blue,” followed by whatever floor, wing, etc.…
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I suppose if you’re into the points & miles game, flights can be expensive, but if you’re paying with cash then they can be REALLY expensive. Were they always this much? Well, yes. And sometimes no. Depending. It’s complicated. An…
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The FAA just approved a new seat design for planes and I could be wrong, but it looks like it could almost make the middle seat…could it actually be….desirable? Molon Labe Seating has been working on its landmark airplane seat, called the S…
