Recent content by Anita18

My sister has taken the direct SFO to DCA route for years on Alaska. (I took it myself back in 2023.) It's not that often though, maybe once a day, IIRC. My sister also says nobody calls it Reagan, everyone she knows/works with still calls it National. Or DCA. Which tells you something about...

My sister flies into DCA a lot for work with a federal government department. It’s so much closer to DC than the alternatives. I can’t imagine Congress (whose members also use it a lot) would vote to reduce flights there. Shutting it down was even on the table once, to clear out the airspace...

People on the Airliners.net forum are saying that the helicopter was twice as high as it should have been. I’m sure the investigation will look into that. If this tragedy finally gets the FAA to redesign the DCA airspace and its rules, at least their deaths won’t be in vain. It’s so so awful.

NYTimes reports the skaters were returning from the juvenile, intermediate, and novice camp. ? So young.

Oh no! I was just reading about this crash, and also catching up with Nationals. So awful. I hope the families can be notified soon and find peace.

I didn't truly understand the magnitude of this mindset shift until I had a child with someone who, as a child himself, was only given affection and opportunities for connection by his parents and grandparents when he was perfect. And often, nothing my husband ever did was right in the eyes of...

Hubs is FINALLY home from the work trip. I showed him Katie's SP from Nationals and he recognized her and her coach! (Too bad they also didn't show her mom just to confirm hahaha.)

It was also a Southwest flight, and as far as I can tell, no SF/LA-area airports have Southwest flights direct to Columbus. So it would be quite a lot of layovers to get to Columbus if they were traveling from somewhere other than where they lived. ? Especially coach AND skater with mom.

Husband wrote back and was like ¯\(ツ)/¯ about the gallery so we really will never know who it was. :rofl:

I just saw Mia on the Team USA roster, but he was adamant that the skater was East Asian. (He's not THAT clueless of a white dude. :rofl: ) I saw that Sherry Zhang is from San Jose, but she also apparently withdrew months ago. It's also possible that they were flying out of OAK for...

Completely unrelated to any of the previous convos since I've been SO out of the figure skating loop for the past few years...but my husband flew super early today out of OAK for a work trip and says he sat randomly in between a figure skater and her coach! Of COURSE it would happen to him while...

...yes. It is literally, everything everywhere all at once. ;) Meaning it crosses a bunch of genres and has many moments of absurdity and humor, but yes heroism, emotion, and drama too! It really can't be figured out from the trailers. (My sister got more emotionally into it on a second...

I'm at the tail end of a non-COVID cold (just minor sinus congestion now) and a week of solo parenting (husband was on work trip), buuuut...I might try to drive down to see the men tomorrow, YOLO! Catching up on all the bag intel. :inavoid:

After seeing the dangerously thin Russian girls (who only get 2 shrimp for dinner and don't get to drink water), I was over the MOON to see Alysa being what she is — an excitable 16yo who's happy to eat dumplings and get 3 ice creams. I imagine her dad feels sore as a parent, being too afraid...

Given that CAS let KV off because of her age, watch Russia simply dope up all their athletes under 16. Why not? It's not like there's gonna be any punishment for doing it. This is the real "irreparable harm." Awful. Yes, that's the part that strikes me, having grown up in a pressure cooker...