An outline of the “Green New Deal” shows progressive Democrats hope to expand high-speed rail transportation across the United States to “a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary.” The proposal — championed by freshman congresswoman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) — calls for the federal government to tackle “climate change” and “systemic injustice” by eliminating “pollution and greenhouse gas emissions” to meet “100 percent of the power demand” through “clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources.” The plan outlines 14 different proposed “infrastructure and industrial” projects to meet its objective to “totally overhaul” transportation in the U.S. “Every project strives to remove greenhouse gas emissions and pollution from every sector of our economy” by “massively expanding electric … [Read more...] about Green New Deal: Build Enough ‘High-Speed Rail’ to Make Air Travel Unnecessary
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Smelly Airline Passenger Forces Emergency Landing As Fellow Travelers Vomit and Faint
World Air Travel Netherlands Emergency landing A passenger jet was forced into an emergency landing on Tuesday as panicked travelers fainted in their seats and vomited in the aisles. Though it may sound like the opening scene of an apocalyptic pandemic movie, the emergency landing was actually forced by a passenger who smelled as if he hadn’t washed for several weeks, Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported. The Dutch Transavia Airlines flight was heading to Amsterdam from the Spanish island of Gran Canaria off the coast of northwest Africa. But before it got there, passengers began to gag and become violently ill. A Boeing 737-800 aircraft of low-cost airliner Transavia is seen on January 26, 2015 at Paris-Orly airport in France. A smelly passenger forced an emergency landing of a Transavia plane in Faro on Tuesday. KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP/Getty Images Recommended Slideshows 61 Every World Press Photo Winner Ever: 60 Images That Define Our World 10 … [Read more...] about Smelly Airline Passenger Forces Emergency Landing As Fellow Travelers Vomit and Faint
Record travel volume predicted for Memorial Day weekend
WASHINGTON — Memorial Day weekend travel will be especially fraught this year, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. How bad, exactly? Think “record numbers.” More than a million D.C.-area residents (1,053,400, to be exact) are expected to be traveling at least 50 miles on the road, in a plane or on trains and cruise ships this holiday weekend — a record high, AAA said. (By comparison, only 748,500 residents traveled during Memorial Day weekend in 2009.) “We’re not even counting the people who are traveling less than 50 miles,” said John Townsend II, AAA Mid-Atlantic’s manager of public and government affairs. The breakdown locally, per AAA and the transportation analytics company INRIX: Nearly 939,000 automobile travelers are projected this weekend, an increase of 4.9 percent over last year. About 85,000 air travelers are anticipated, an increase of 7.5 percent. Almost 30,000 travelers using other modes are projected, an increase of 1 … [Read more...] about Record travel volume predicted for Memorial Day weekend
WOW Air is selling $69 flights from the US to Europe — but there’s a catch
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The future of flight is standing room only
Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Christopher Muther Globe Staff April 24, 2018 Each year a fresh batch of concept drawings and patents emerge for airplane seating configurations that look more like recreations of medieval torture chambers than seats. The seats and configurations appear to be impossible Draconian notions that could never make the leap from paper to plane, and for that we’ve all been thankful. Until now. Advertisement Meet the Skyrider 2.0. The name, right down to the 2.0, makes it sound like a cool device out of “Star Wars.” Who wouldn’t want to climb upon something called the Skyrider and zoom through the air? I’ll tell you who: Anyone in their right mind. Get The Weekender in your inbox: The Globe's top picks for what to see and do each weekend, in Boston and beyond. Thank you for signing up! Sign up for more newsletters here The … [Read more...] about The future of flight is standing room only