KN writes:
‘Here’s another coincidence. US Airline pilot magazine (Alpa) shows one pilot died in 2019, six in 2020, and 111 in the first nine months of 2021.’
Damn you, climate change.
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Grounded airline fleets around the world.
Above: Stansted airport, London. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images; Shuttlesworth international airport in Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters (x2); Bournemouth airport. Photograph: National Police Air Service/PA; Incheon international airport, South Korea. Photograph: YONHAP/EPA and Brisbane Airport, Australia. Photograph: Darren England/AAP)
MORE: Planes grounded by coronavirus pandemic sit idle at airports around the world (The Guardian)
A sarcastic but heartfelt letter set on December 21st 2004 to Continental Airlines by the aggrieved passenger in seat 29E (since confirmed as genuine by Continental).
It’s been doing the rounds of the internet since 2005, but if you’ve never seen it (we hadn’t), enjoy the win.
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