Gavin Werbeloff
@travelbuddha.bsky.social
Travel expert, photographer, real estate fund principal, reformed lawyer, and repository of useless information. @usc.edu, @emorylaw.bsky.social & Emory Goizueta alum.
Also Resident numbers guy for @flightradar24.com AvTalk Podcast
📷: gavin.werbeloff.com
Also Resident numbers guy for @flightradar24.com AvTalk Podcast
📷: gavin.werbeloff.com
That would be logical, given IAG/BA’s relationship with RR, but all the Iberia A330’s have GE CF6’s.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
That would be logical, given IAG/BA’s relationship with RR, but all the Iberia A330’s have GE CF6’s.
Also, all powered by GE.
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Also, all powered by GE.
You think they might tap the company that operates Janet? At least there’s some scale there.
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
You think they might tap the company that operates Janet? At least there’s some scale there.
Another sign of:
December 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Another sign of:
Implicit in the notion of inflation is that people can afford to cover the cost increases. If they can't demand dies, and costs reduce. Affordability is an issue when costs go up, but incomes don't keep pace. IMO what we're seeing right now is due increased inflation *expectations* driving up prices
December 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Implicit in the notion of inflation is that people can afford to cover the cost increases. If they can't demand dies, and costs reduce. Affordability is an issue when costs go up, but incomes don't keep pace. IMO what we're seeing right now is due increased inflation *expectations* driving up prices
Try turning on “reduce motion” in Settings/Accessibility/Motion
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Try turning on “reduce motion” in Settings/Accessibility/Motion
Imagine being so consumed with schadenfreude that you have to convince yourself that policies that are harming your own interests actually aren’t, because they’re hurting the people you hate and you don’t want that to stop.
December 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Converting a property from heating oil to natural gas or electric heat is not an easy or cheap endeavor.
December 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Converting a property from heating oil to natural gas or electric heat is not an easy or cheap endeavor.
I’ve already requalled 1K, and that Iberia flight was literally the only one in existence that would let me be at my meetings on Wednesday and with my family for Thanksgiving lunch on Thursday.
December 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I’ve already requalled 1K, and that Iberia flight was literally the only one in existence that would let me be at my meetings on Wednesday and with my family for Thanksgiving lunch on Thursday.
Exhibit A bsky.app/profile/trav...
8 days, 6 flights, 6 airlines, 8 airports, and 11,910 miles. I’m home.
December 9, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Exhibit A bsky.app/profile/trav...
Me too, which is the root of my response.
December 9, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Me too, which is the root of my response.
That loop every week, 50 weeks a year, would earn million miler status on one year.
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
That loop every week, 50 weeks a year, would earn million miler status on one year.
In theory yes, but if you’re literally flying a million miles a year, there is no destination on earth that would voluntarily get me on a plane if I don’t need to be.
December 9, 2025 at 3:12 AM
In theory yes, but if you’re literally flying a million miles a year, there is no destination on earth that would voluntarily get me on a plane if I don’t need to be.
My point is that when you’re flying 20K miles a week for work, why on earth would anyone fly for pleasure.
December 9, 2025 at 3:09 AM
My point is that when you’re flying 20K miles a week for work, why on earth would anyone fly for pleasure.
I’m in Europe for work 9-10 times a year, and I joke that those weeks, I wake up every morning confused.
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I’m in Europe for work 9-10 times a year, and I joke that those weeks, I wake up every morning confused.
It also bears pointing out that there wouldn’t be such a rush to the lounge if airport food wasn’t so overpriced and awful.
December 9, 2025 at 2:58 AM
It also bears pointing out that there wouldn’t be such a rush to the lounge if airport food wasn’t so overpriced and awful.
Yup and having been to more than my fair share of lounges, there isn’t a lounge I’ve been to that I’d call a destination. There are a handful that actually make the trip better. The ones that I’d call my favorites aren’t the most fancy, they just do what they’re designed to do, very well
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Yup and having been to more than my fair share of lounges, there isn’t a lounge I’ve been to that I’d call a destination. There are a handful that actually make the trip better. The ones that I’d call my favorites aren’t the most fancy, they just do what they’re designed to do, very well
What’s the use of even having status? You’re paying for the highest class of service, and what person who spends their entire working life on an airplane wants to do anything other than stay at home on vacation.
December 9, 2025 at 2:49 AM
What’s the use of even having status? You’re paying for the highest class of service, and what person who spends their entire working life on an airplane wants to do anything other than stay at home on vacation.
I can’t imagine he meant literal cash.
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I can’t imagine he meant literal cash.
That sounds like absolute hell and honestly what use are you one day a week in each of those places? It doesn’t matter where you’re flying, airplane sleep isn’t quality.
December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
That sounds like absolute hell and honestly what use are you one day a week in each of those places? It doesn’t matter where you’re flying, airplane sleep isn’t quality.
There have been times in my life that I’ve been flying so much that I’ve been recognized by flight attendants, and had award inventory opened up on request. You hit a point that it doesn’t matter where you’re sitting on the plane, you’re still in a metal tube 7 miles in the air.
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
There have been times in my life that I’ve been flying so much that I’ve been recognized by flight attendants, and had award inventory opened up on request. You hit a point that it doesn’t matter where you’re sitting on the plane, you’re still in a metal tube 7 miles in the air.
I have colleagues that sit in London(I’m on the east coast), and on Fridays in winter, I basically have a 2 hour window to speak to them before they’re gone for Shabbat.
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I have colleagues that sit in London(I’m on the east coast), and on Fridays in winter, I basically have a 2 hour window to speak to them before they’re gone for Shabbat.