Having recently travelled through LaGuardia, the B Fast service is much more like Clear. Because of this, Clear is not offered at terminal B. The regular security line was long when I travelled (A few weeks ago on a Friday) but it moved quickly and I don't think it's worth paying the $15. Just get pre-check. One more thing - B Fast does not replace a step of the security process like Clear does. It's just a fast pass.
What happens when someone figures out how to hack pilotless aircraft? They could divert it to somewhere else and steal the freight, kidnap the pax, or just use it as a kamikaze and point it at someone's house. New mass murder weapon.
The cockpit is already highly automated. Even some light aircraft (TBM 940, Piper M600, Vision Jet) can land themselves. Automation that helps when pilots are incapacitated or hypoxic is good. Automation also fails, and humans need to be there to take control. It would be irresponsible to only let the automation have control.
My other big concern is noise since it'll be flying very close to populated areas. Even though it's electric, that many props is going to create quite a ruckus.
JetBlue needs to go back to what it was 8 years ago. In that day, one checked bag was totally free, no need to have an airline's credit card. Then they trimmed that benefit, and now no carry ons?
Here's the article if you can't read it because of the paywall:
Time was when nobody knew, or even cared, exactly what time it was. The movement of the sun, phases of the moon and changing seasons were sufficient indicators. But since the Industrial Revolution, we’ve become increasingly dependent on knowing the time, and with increasing accuracy. Not only does the time tell us when to sleep, wake, eat, work and play; it tells automated systems when to execute financial transactions, bounce data between cellular towers and throttle power on the electrical grid.
Coordinated Universal Time, or U.T.C., the global reference for timekeeping, is beamed down to us from extremely precise atomic clocks aboard Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites. The time it takes for GPS signals to reach receivers is also used to calculate location for air, land and sea navigation.
Owned and operated by the U.S. government, GPS is likely the least recognized, and least appreciated, part of our cri
