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play0:00 / 1:11Most likely this aircraft made the runway incursion this morning. Landed on 18R, cleared via Zulu to Echo17.
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ATCArchive http://www.onderzoeksraad.nl/index.php/onderzoeken/runway-incursion-2012040/
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play0:00 / 4:00This joke was submitted to punofthday.com by Toycoon from Skokie, Illinois #ESL #ELT #ELL #ELD #ESOL #EFL #TESOL #ESOL #English #langu...gr829 likes this.
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Whatsofunny THE AIRLINES HAVE BECOME SO CASH-STRAPPED, THEY CHARGED ME FOR MY EMOTIONAL BAGGAGE. What’s so funny about this? I guess we’re all going through hard times these days. We may have averted falling off the fiscal cliff, at least temporarily, but both businesses and people have been suffering economically for the past 3-4 years and more. It’s been called the biggest “recession” since the “depression”, a meaningless expression since both words mean essentially the same. Most people would think that airlines were rolling in the dough, but it takes an incredible amount of money to run an airline, and many have gone broke and bankrupt. There are many fewer carriers today, than there were 15-20 years ago. And the remaining airlines have really cut back on the free services they provide. I can still remember when our kids were small, back in the 80’s and we were going to Miami, Florida to visit my parents, their grandparents. We were flying on Delta airlines on economy fares, the cheap seats. Nevertheless, when we got to the gate, they served us coffee with lox, bagels and cream cheese, gave my wife and me each an airline bag filled with a beach towel and pilot pins for the kids. We still have at least one of these towels to this day. On the flight down, we were served a snack and a beverage. Had they not already fed us at the gate, we would have received a complementary hot breakfast, lunch or dinner, depending on the time of day. We had a lot of baggage with two kids and of course there was no charge for checking it. Forget all that these days. Unless you’re flying first-class, which has always been a rip-off as far as value, you have to pay for everything. You have to provide your own food or pay for ridiculously over-priced and poorly prepared stuff. And luggage? Forget about it. You are allowed to carry one single item and you have to pay for everything else especially what you check. In the joke, we’re told that the airlines are cash-strapped. This does not mean that they are afraid to deposit their cash in the bank and instead tie it to the backs of airline personnel; just the opposite. The expression means to be cash-poor, low on cash. This particular airline might soon be rich again because in addition to charging for all the luggage you are carrying, they are charging people for their “emotional baggage” too. This is a slang expression that means emotional issues, such as anger, or depression, feelings we “carry around” with ourselves because we can’t or won’t deal with them. Since that seems to be most people these days, maybe this airline will get rich enough to again provide a bagel with a schmear of cream cheese once in a while. And THAT’s what’s so funny!
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play0:00 / 1:45Activists attempting to fly to Israel from European airports have been turned away by Airlines, after Israel added their names to a 'no-f...