September 2008 - Jim Fallows' Aviation blogs
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From the Albuquerque Journal , this is what it looks like when an American small-jet company (Eclipse) prepares to open a production plant in Russia: Maybe this is what we've been warned against? Thanks to David Strip.
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Over the months, starting with this article , I have chronicled the ambitions and operations of the most highly publicized of the new air taxi companies, DayJet. Late last year, it began service in Florida and rapidly expanded to nearby southeastern states...
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I mentioned one month ago that a friend in the FAA had warned me in 2006 that there was something funny in the way that Eclipse Aviation, pioneer of the very light, very cheap small-jet movement, had just gotten rush FAA certification for its breakthrough...
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1. Miwok : As mentioned recently , yet another air taxi company has started up. This one, Miwok Airways , is using small, posh Cirrus SR22 propeller-driven airplanes and serving Southern California roughly between San Diego in the south, Oxnard in the...
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For years and years now -- nine years, to be precise, since this 1999 article in the NY Times magazine and my subsequent Atlantic article and book Free Flight -- I've been arguing that the mounting hassles of airline travel, and the emergence of radically...