Every holiday season someone invariably posts a picture of FlightRadar24 showing all the planes in the air, and every time they do I don't really get it because the sky always looks mobbed on that map as far as I can tell. So to me, what would be more noteworthy is not to see that blanket of yellow and orange planes -- or, in today's case, to see a giant hole in it. There are scarce few planes over New England, New York, and northern Pennsylvania right now. I haven't seen notice of specific airport closings, but just because you can still buy a Cinnabon doesn't mean you're flying anywhere...
Bangor International Airport, Boston's Logan International Airport, and New Hampshire's Manchester-Boston Regional Airport
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Will, check your wire service. Various airlines canceled more than 2,600 flights in that area today in anticipation of this storm. Airlines have no guts anymore. They just stop flying when the weather gets bad.
dear lord, there's THAT many planes in the sky? How come no one told me this before?
This is a problem only if you, like Will, believe the planes are the size of an average city.
There's a hole in the air traffic, Eliza, Eliza,
There's a hole in the air traffic, Eliza, a hole.
Someone had to pick up on this.
So fix it, dear Liza...
I am sorry, but I don’t follow your reasoning here Rachel. Are you suggesting
that there is something insidious going on up in the north east? Or that the
data posted is deliberately incomplete? I would expect what ‘holes’ there might
be in air traffic lanes to be over places like the Pentagon or a tactical
Nuclear physics package storage facilities –places like that.
I am curious about what prompted your post…
See above, Ed, about all the flights that were cancelled in the Northeast because of Superstorm Nemo...
Anybody wondering about the contributions of air travel to global warming can take a look at this one and get an eyeful...
I kind of chuckled at Chris Matthews when he was advocating high speed rail, but now I can see why (assuming we can generate adequate power with less carbon emissions). Out here in the Wild West, the population is far more spread out.