Heat fuels travel collapse
Naples Airport. Once 12 flights per day. Every successor in every seat, maybe even in John. Boeing 747. The airport is so busy it could have started its own city. Noisy, although you can still buy fresh mozzarella packaged in Styrofoam to take home.
This was to be a full non-stop flight to Newark. 214 passengers. Today is a hot, sweaty day.
Some new registrations for non-Europeans mean passport control is now good for 90 minutes. Some vestiges of Mussolini’s order may have been stuck in his will. Behind getting into the seats. The observer gets the microphone. People know that this is not a good sign and is probably worse than coffee.
Voice: “We’ve been assigned an unusual northern route over Iceland. That means more fuel.” The Italian authorities do not allow refueling with passengers on board. “So the buses come back to take passengers to the station again.”
Yes, correct. Sweaty, wrinkled bodies line up. It’s a barbecue. The plane could have been powered by sweat alone. All the wood goes back to the creaky old coach that was probably assembled before Edsel. Few cold seats. Most stick to anything like the L train to Canarsie. After 25 minutes, she was back on board in sweaty seats.
Another announcement comes. “Great news. Also not so great news. We’ve been assigned a much faster flight to the United States. Direct. Over Sardinia. Over Barcelona.” The voice says: “The flight will now take nine hours. That’s the great news. It’s no good having to make a 90-minute detour to use up the extra fuel. But – pay attention. Are you ready now? We were headed to Newark. Now we’re headed to Albany.” Albany?!
The capital of this state did no It looks like Via Veneto.
A “magical” night with Eddie is now available
So, if you’re not traveling abroad, try the Hamptons Club, which is now big in basketball, baseball, pickleball, soccer, handball, beach ball, and arsenal, as well as bras, butts, boobs, balls, burgers, and beaches. Also badminton. And – for one night only – August 2, Eddie Falco.
New York theater company New Group, along with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French Inc., will bring Falco to the Westhampton Beach Center for the Performing Arts. A private reading of The Year of Magical Thinking, based on Joan Didion’s Tony Award-nominated memoir.
Falco is also returning for season five of Paramount’s Mayor of Kingstown, co-starring Jeremy Renner.
Falco is busy.
It’s good versus evil
The Israelis are leaving. Many are buying places here in the East.
Hamas attacks Israel. Israel responds. Israel is the bad guy.
Hezbollah attacks Israel from Lebanon. Israel is the bad guy.
Iran fires missiles and drones at Israel. Israel is the bad guy.
A few years ago, Japan attacked the United States. We resisted. We won. And we were then good man?!
From businessman and philanthropist Jonathan Farkas, whose wife Somers serves as our ambassador to Malta: “I am the only person in the history of the United States whose mother and wife have been U.S. ambassadors.”
Somers’ tip for travelers: Skip the stop. Delta now operates non-stop flights from JFK to Malta. Business between the United States and Malta is booming, and visitors can explore 5,000-year-old temples, see the only Caravaggio autograph ever written, swim in crystal-clear waters and stroll through a beautiful capital. Not bad for a direct flight and one passport stamp.
Only in Malta, children, only in Malta.