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Sunday, January 30, 2011

More Snow and Ice Loom. And No, This Is Not a Drill

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Oh come on now, you can't be serious, Weather Channel. Another big snow storm ? This has to be hype, Weather Channel. You cannot serious...

Americans Advised to Leave Cairo; Security Forces Shut Down Al Jazeera Bureau

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The U.S. State Department says it's planning to offer airlift service tomorrow for the estimated 75,000 Americans now living and working...
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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Looting in Cairo?

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There are only sketchy reports of looting in Cairo, including some saying that street protesters have formed a guard outside the Museum of E...
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TSA: No Additional Rent-a-Cop Screeners

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[ Left: Rep. John Mica; right: TSA chief John Pistole] The TSA head, John Pistole, has put an end to expansion of the program that allows ai...
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Friday, January 28, 2011

Meanwhile, Back in Arizona ...

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[ PHOTO: Gabrielle Giffords and Trent Humphries, the Tea Party guy who says she asked for it ] TUCSON -- While everybody was hollering on ...
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Traveling to Egypt, Elsewhere in Middle East? Great Caution Needed

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Who knows how more vociferous these violent street protests in Egypt, Tunisia and elsewhere in the Middle East might become? Given the impet...
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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Today's Flight Cancellations: Who's Counting?

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Ok, well I guess I'm counting, because the rest of the media keep telling you that "hundreds" of flights were canceled today b...
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Here We Go: More Snow!

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[Airport delays at 7.35 p.m. EST tonight. Tomorrow will be worse. Map via FlightView.com ]. Oh, you know. More snow. Hundreds of flight can...
Friday, January 21, 2011

Armed in Tucson

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[Photo: A javelina] TUCSON -- My favorite New York Times columnist is Tim Egan, and his column about guns and Tucson is the best I have re...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Crazy in Tucson

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How inconvenient for the pious revisionists wagging their fingers and tongues at those who see an obvious link between violent political rh...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Air Travel Advice in East: Stay Home

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Another fine mess in the Northeast this morning as a snowstorm arrived. The by-now-usual grim tales unfold, including very large numbers of ...
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Near Gridlock in Air Travel

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[Map: Flightview.com ] This is what the airports looked like a little before midnight today. And it's going to be a lot worse tomorrow ...

Tarmac Delays in November: Zero. Again.

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Again in November there were no tarmac delays of over three hours on domestic flights, the Transportation Department's Bureau of Transpo...

Airlines Preemptively Canceling Flights in New York Area

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Under threat of snow, airlines are preemptively canceling flights at the three New York-area airports for both today and tomorrow. To me, t...
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Monday, January 10, 2011

Nearly All Flights in Atlanta Canceled; Cancellations Also Mounting for Tuesday As Big Storm Heads Toward New York

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[UPDATED] Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport, the busiest airport in the country in terms of flights handled, is virtually shut today ...

Atlanta Cancellations As of 9 A.M: 2,550

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There have been 2,550 flights canceled in Atlanta as of 9 a.m. ### [Newspapers used to pad out columns of type inside the paper that were a ...
Sunday, January 09, 2011

Heads-Up: Cancellations Mount in Atlanta

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Snowy weather equals massive flight cancellations these days, and Atlanta is racking them up: 350 today and, hang on, 1,650 flights canceled...
Saturday, January 08, 2011

Democratic Congresswoman Shot in Tucson

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Gabrielle Giffords, the liberal Democratic congresswoman from Tucson, has just been shot in Tucson. Details developing. ###
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Friday, January 07, 2011

Row 44 WiFi in Another Advance for Service on International Flights

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The aggressively expanding inflight WiFi provider Row 44 said today that it received approval from the Federal Communications Commission to ...

A Hint of Snow, and Hundreds of Flights Canceled in New York

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Hey, it's winter. It snows sometimes in New York, so let's not get all hysterical about it, airlines and government and, of course, ...
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Joe Sharkey's work appears in major national and international publications. For 19 years until 2015 he was a weekly columnist for the New York Times. He is now a weekly travel and entertainment columnist with the global website Travel.Buzz, as well as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Arizona, He has written five books, four non-fiction and a novel, one of which is in development as a movie. Previously, he was an assistant national editor at the Wall Street Journal and a reporter and columnist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. On Sept. 29, 2006, he was one of seven people on a business jet who survived a mid-air collision with a 737 over the Amazon. All 154 on the 737 died. His report on the crash appeared on the front page of the New York Times and later in the Sunday Times of London magazine. He and his wife Nancy (who is a professor of journalism at the University of Arizona) live in Tucson with horses and parrots. He is working on a new novel about an international travel writer who hates to travel. "JoeSharkey.com" is Copyright (c) 2006-2015 by Joe Sharkey.
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