Aviation is an international business. But all politics is local.

So some of Safran's upcoming productions plans are brave, from the perspective of French political observers.

Or, at least — and not to mix any Angevin metaphors — that's what Sir Humphrey would say.

— plus why Safran might be risking getting in the hot water to make French union soup.

Dad pun allegations not going away, no sirree.

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Although, noting the press release: "The most important sub-fleets of Lufthansa will receive their own special livery" — got to say, if I happened to work on some of the *other* sub-fleets of Lufthansa, I might a bit left-out.

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when u are an A340-600 and are STILL IN SERVICE yet you do not get a nice livery

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"No and forsooth — I am never going to give you up, never going to let you down…"

Or — plot twist — NO MURDERS. Suddenly Simon Feximal is copypasted, name swapped Jane Austen.

In an internal document I obtained, Avelo’s head of flight ops said they had to bank a lot of cash this quarter, may be seeing that with this NWSL charter. He also indicated the ICE flights haven’t been as profitable as they’d hoped, and they may not make it through the first quarter of 2026.

Nice thing about a city like Seoul is that by doing things and going places you inherently go by train. Wins all round!

Oh, those are sell a *body* expensive. Those designers are doing an incredible job.

Also out today: part 4 of 5 of @garius.bsky.social's remarkable history of the California Clipper, the feat of commercial aviation that brought a Pan Am flying boat the wrong way around the world from Auckland to LaGuardia.

This time: it's Christmas in Sri Lanka.

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With PleatMumu now disappeared, I do need a new faintly irrational yet entirely justified hatred…

Yeah, that’s a reasonable bar. Did MIA with two suitcases and a roll aboard, which was doable if not fun (and as I said, checkin near the peoplemover). The US experience also suffers from the StupideCarte ripoff bullshit, of course.

Sure to all of that: but if the bar here is “better than other major US airports” does MIA clear it?

I mean that seems a lot better than every other major rental car situation in the US

Yeah, in fairness our checkin desk was pretty close to the stop. But it seemed like the walk would be in AC though, right? Not like open air?