Originally Posted by
acl65pilot
Only way I see that is if guys MD and VD down here.
... and they are. Not since Sherman will so many Yankees be in town. The neighbors and I are going to offer redneck appreciation lessons so they understand a few basics:
- A yard should contain two cars. The new one goes out front. The old one goes out back. Flat tires and kudzu are considered sculpture ... a little roadside Appalachian modern art.
- Iced tea should be served cold, with a well developed patina of condensation on the side of the glass jar container. We know it is too damn sweet. The Sugar is there to place you in a catatonic state which results from a hyperglycemic coma, but with enough reserve energy that you can at least make it to the edge of the porch to pee. It is too hot to do much of anything else from June through September.
- Peaches may be the State fruit, but Kudzu is the State vine. If you park you car, or your child, for very long in one location and can not find them later, cut back the kudzu. In all probability they just got over grown. Then again, if you don't care for the car, report it stolen. At least a half dozen cars are found every winter when the vine becomes dormant.
- Honking your horn only makes us drive more cautious and slower. If we do move, it is because our foot slipped off the brake while rooting around in the glove box to find some ammunition.
- The north side of highway 285 is the redneck autobahn. The police are afraid to venture out on that road to write tickets for fear of being run over (true actually). Just before and just after rush hour be prepared to drive at speeds between 85 and 100 miles per hour or risk getting hit from behind.
- Bisecting 285 is Chamblee, also known as Chambodia. The lucky half of South Vietnam all moved here, married Chinese and Koreans and bought minivans. The combination of 285 and Chambodia is very close to a full scale version of the game frogger. Most Delta pilots lack the skills and reflexes necessary to dodge a vanload of immigrants while maintaining the flow of traffic at 100 miles per hour. As a result they move to Peachtree City to be on the exact opposite side of town from this mess. Don't feel badly ... no one else has the relexes to pull off driving here either. I once arbitrated a 85 car pile up on the North Perimeter freeway (absolutely true). I also one pulled over into the right lane, while driving over 100 in a Corvette, to let traffic behind me pass.
- When traffic is not moving on 285, it is stopped. People have been observed pulled over grilling meat in a charcoal grill in the emergency lane while waiting for the traffic to clear (again, no exaggeration).
But hey, stop the Advance Displacement!
Originally Posted by Air Transport World daily brief
IATA reported that international passenger traffic jumped 16.5% year-over-year in April. Though that figure is skewed by the volcanic ash-related airspace closures in April 2010, the organization pointed out that traffic levels during April were 7% higher than the pre-recession peak of early 2008. April capacity as measured in ASKs rose 16.8% year-over-year. The highest growth region in April was Europe, where a 29.3% uptick in international traffic was "due mostly" to the significant numbers of flight cancellations in the region in April 2010, IATA noted. Latin America followed with a 25.9% increase in international traffic. Middle East grew 12.1%, North America 11.9%, Asia/Pacific 5.1% and Africa just 1.2%.
IATA said April domestic traffic, a figure it is newly tracking, rose 4.7% year-over-year on a 3.1% increase in capacity. System-wide April traffic heightened 11.9% year-over-year on an 11.5% hike in capacity.