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Live and Let's Fly
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Live and Let's Fly is a personal blog at liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com about culture. Since 2017, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters link its posts on airline and airport stories, such as a Turkish Airlines laptop-ban flight, a Soviet-era Armenian airport facing demolition, and the TWA terminal. They cite them as sources, with no judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
This is the second such instance in the past month. - For a longer discussion on the topic see this thread on airliners.net http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1373093 - On August 24 Typhoon Hato hit HongKong hard. All airlines canceled their service in and out of HKIA, except a lone KLM flight from Amsterdam. Similar to the delta flight into San Juan, this flight created a large media storm into the…
Comment linking /2017/08/24/klm-747-typhoon-hato/
on “Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home”Submitted United Threatening Passengers Who Skip Flights as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI don't know anywhere it is officially permitted for passengers, but anecdotally it still happens in some countries. http://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2016/07/27/smoking-on...
Comment linking /2016/07/27/smoking-on-china-eastern-airlines/
on “German traffic light stays red for 28 years (2015)”Submitted Aeroplan's failed migration protracting for more than a month as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI flew a round-trip on Turkish (Atlanta-Istanbul-Vienna, then Budapest-Istanbul-Atlanta) while the ban was in effect. The ban was only in effect on the Istanbul to Atlanta flight. I believe I could have carried a laptop on the Budapest-Istanbul flight and "gate-checked" it at Istanbul; I didn't see anyone do this, but my carry-on bag was searched at the gate so I suppose that's when it would have happened. See http:…
Comment linking /2017/04/19/guide-electronics-ban-turkish-airlines/
on “US Lifts Laptop Ban on Etihad, Emirates and Turkish Airlines”Submitted Uber maybe Charging more when the Phone battery is low? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionJust to follow on here, there are some much more evocative pictures of the TWA building in this Wired article: https://www.wired.com/2015/08/max-touhey-twa-flight-center/ And also on this blog, from a guy who snuck in during a layover: https://liveandletsfly.boardingarea.com/2018/01/25/twa-fligh...
Comment linking /2018/01/25/twa-flight-center-tour/
on “A Soviet-era airport, once the height of luxury, faces demolition in Armenia”Agreed. I don't think trains are really good at speed yet relative to costs. They are however good at comfort if given the chance. There is less of a space and weight premium. Noise and vibration can be much lower. And a medium speed train they can still go twice as fast as car. I wish someone would take the idea of a business or first class flight, without the luxuries and inflated cost, and put that on a modern me…
Comment linking /2018/02/08/swiss-777-300er-first-class-review/
on “High Speed Trains Are Killing the European Railway Network (2013)”