Flying

Nowadays, domestic flight delays in this kingdom is a daily life for people that fly alot. Last Friday, a student flew from Shenzhen to the capital arriving at 3am. It was scheduled to leave at 9pm for a 2 1/2 hours flight. If my flight was on time, that was like winning a lottery!!! I can count with my one hand how many times my flight took off on time: 3 in the last six weeks. On average, my ass was stuck to the seat inside a plane for an extra 45 minutes due to traffic control. The longest was 2 hours not because of weather. Weather delays, I can understand.

So today, there was a local language article written up about this frequent delays now. The head of Civil Aviation said that majority flight delays inside this kingdom is due to weather. Right! One of the experts on his side provided explanation that, even though the destination and departure points have clear sky do not mean that in between is. Right! Planes can fly over those weather patterns buddy! These two guys neglected to say that Civil Aviation gets to control up to 25,000 ft of space, only particular corridors are open for flights; any over 25,000.0001 ft is the domain of the Arms group. And one of the top officials that had approval power was taking in $ for routings. Got caught last month I think. Compound by all these factors, we are getting delays! Not weather. As a matter fact, $CmP published an article back in late 90's had the former Brits golden egg's Civil Aviation talking to the Kingdom about opening up this restricted space. Because they had predicted that with the amount of traffic, by around this time we are getting into a grid lock.

O yeah, also all those people along the southern cost with lot$ and lot$ of $$$$$$ are buying private planes and helicopters to fly at their lei$ure. But 97% of those had no Kingdom approval to fly them in the Kingdom's airspace. These guy$ flew their plane$ without authorization from tower$ and just flew them, just becua$e they can...

At this rate, highspeed trains maybe better; but with such rapid development without good QA, another problem await. What if someone cuts the power and we got stuck inside? Totally sealed up for speed. This scenario has happened several times in the last 3 months.

I am sure someone will be smart enough to figure this out.... Maybe after a disaster.....

Progre$$.... Urbani$ation... Who's growing food?