This is hilarious… The program he’s ripping on for DEI was started by him in his previous term.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/30/faa-dei-trump-fact-checker/
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That’s paywalled, but it sounds about right based on your description.
There are some right wing sites claiming a specific trans woman was the helicopter pilot and caused the crash. She’s had to point out that nope, she’s still alive and wasn’t involved.
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Isn’t the 737, 757 and 767, along with a host of AirBus planes single aisle? Granted most are of the 2-2 1st Class and 3-3 for the rest of the plane but they only have a single aisle.
737 is single aisle but the 2-2 economy seating rather than 3-3 or 3-4-3 is the reason I like the smaller jets.
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I’m fond of the regional jets that have 2-1 seating in business class.
I’m looking forward to my vacation trip, where for the “I want to try to sleep” BOS-KEF flight, I reserved a “1” at the back of a 2-1-2 config business class cabin.
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Pretty short flight for much sleep? Every time I fly over KEF, I think it would be nice to do a layover there en route to Europe. However our Business Class fares to KEF are ridiculously high.
737 - yes, but with a 3-3 configuration in economy
757 - yes, but with a 3-3 configuration in economy and no longer being produced
767 - no, this is a wide-bodied aircraft
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That said, a 767 is generally 2-3-2, so if the goal is to have a “2” together with your spouse in economy then I think that’d work if you booked your tickets early enough to select those seats.
2-3-2 is nice in that you never have to climb over more than one person / seat that’s not yours to get out. 4/7ths of the seats are aisle seats and the remaining 3/7 are next to an aisle.
It feels vastly less cramped/crowded sitting in 2-2 economy than 3-3 or 2-3.
“Not much sleep” is better than “no sleep”. I don’t sleep well on planes, but I’ll take whatever I can get, so that I’m not entirely a zombie when heading to the hotel.
I’ll also try to nap on the KEF-BER flight, but that’ll be on a 737 with a 2-2 config in Business.
I burned through the last of my big stockpile of miles from my road warrior days in my/my wife’s infamous Hawaii vacation the fall before last. Since I make actuary money, I’m willing to pay to not be stuck in steerage…but at the time I bought the ticket, business class fares on Icelandair were half those of the alternatives.
No stopover in Iceland this trip – when sketching out an itinerary for this trip, given other constraints, it came down to choosing between a day in Iceland, or a day in some city served by Icelandair that’s within a day’s travel of Kiel, Germany. So, I opted for a day in Amsterdam.
For my “bachelor vacation” in 2026, I’ll probably piggyback on to my probably annual business trips to London. Current possibilities for that trip include spending a few days in Iceland, taking the train down to Barcelona, or going up to Svalbard just for the sake of being able to say that I’ve been there.
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