Here’s a list of key terms and lingo to help you navigate airline stories: Available Seat Miles – a measure of capacity on a plane or train. Calculated by multiplying
U.S. airlines were deregulated in 1978. Railroads were deregulated in 1980. Well, not really. While operating ostensibly as private business for three decades, commercial transportation companies are required to disclose
Your job as an airline/rail/transportation writer is to make sense of the business of moving people from place to place. It’s a beautiful thing when it works. When it doesn’t, the
Mark Mueller of The Star-Ledger in New Jersey tracked statistics about fatalities in the railroad industry and produced a story with an attention-grabbing lede: “Be it accident or suicide, the
Welcome to the new era. History will record that electric cars became viable again in 2011. In 1900, there were an equal number of gas, electric and steam cars on
The Los Angeles Times did a masterful job of digging through court filings and police reports to document 56 deaths related to uncontrolled acceleration in Toyotas. That’s 22 more deaths than the 34
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