536. Is Your Plane Ticket Too Expensive — or ...

In his final years, Richard Feynman's curiosity took him to some surprising places. We hear from his companions on the trips he took — and one he wasn’t able to. (Part three of a three-part series originally published in 2024.) SOURCES: Alan Alda, actor and screenwriter. Barbara ...  Show more

What happens when an existentially depressed and recently widowed young physicist from Queens gets a fresh start in California? We follow Richard Feynman out west, to explore his long and extremely fruitful second act. (Part two of a three-part series originally published in 2024 ...  Show more

The girlies answer a pressing question: why is flying so awful? We used to have hotties in Pan Am uniforms serving us caviar, and now we suffer through heinous security lines to sit in seats with no legroom where the emergency exit door is not guaranteed to stay on til landing ...

"Why Is It Often More Expensive to Travel by Train than by Plane?" Transcription : https://www.patreon.com/posts/82986758 

Parmi les conséquences de la guerre en Ukraine, figure l'augmentation des prix du carburant. Celle-ci touche directement les compagnies aériennes, dont certaines ont déjà annoncé une hausse de leurs tarifs.

Une hausse des prix

Plusieurs compagnies aériennes ...

Air travel was a mess over the holidays — in the last 10 days of December, 30,000 flights were canceled. 

While every airline was affected, one stood out: Southwest, which over the past few decades has transformed how Americans fly, melted down. In the last 10 days of th ...