Ryan Kwong

#goals 2022

American Airlines has 77 regional planes sitting in storage because they can't find pilots to fly them. The expected U.S. pilot shortfall in 2026 is 24,000. Training a new commercial pilot takes 2-3 years minimum and costs six figures. So American found a loophole. Partner with a bus company, brand the bus "American Eagle," sell the seat on aa.com with a flight number, route passengers through TSA, let them pick a seat, check bags, earn AAdvantage miles. The entire experience is designed to feel like a flight in every way except the part where you leave the ground. The economics are staggering. A regional jet on a 90-mile route needs two pilots ($100K+ each), a flight attendant, jet fuel, FAA maintenance requirements, and an aircraft that costs $20-30 million. The Landline bus needs one driver and a highway. South Bend to Chicago O'Hare is 90 miles. That route doesn't make money with a regional jet anymore. It barely made money before the pilot shortage. The bus lets American keep selling connections through O'Hare to every destination in its network without operating a single flight. This is what the pilot shortage actually looks like. Not cancelled routes. Not smaller airports going dark. The airline just quietly reclassified a bus as a flight and kept charging accordingly. The TikTok exposing it has 13 million views because the passenger cleared security, sat at a gate, and watched her luggage get loaded onto a coach before it merged onto the interstate. The word "bus" appears once during booking in small text. Google Flights lists it with a tiny bus icon. The airline says customers are "transparently informed." 72% of U.S. airports have already lost an average of 25% of their flights to the shortage, and Landline is expanding, not shrinking. Philadelphia, Chicago, and now five regional airports are on the bus network. American Airlines is solving a $28,000-per-pilot-shortfall crisis by removing the pilot from the equation entirely. The bus is the product now. The flight number is just packaging.

@Gidi_Traffic @KristinRaworth Nah One less rapist isn’t a bad thing.

@KristinRaworth All I heard her say was that; he died in a helicopter crash with his daughter, which shook the basketball world. After that, everything seemed to go downhill.

I've never sen anything more accurate

@BlaQ_Konnect @AfiaDimple_ How were those two shows ? I made it start to finish on big bang but never followed those shows.

@AfiaDimple_ Now you’re just gonna make me start young Sheldon again 🥺

She really got impregnated by a 17yr old 👀

All this party does is waste money and accuse each other of racism.

Canadian NDP socialist conference non-binary speaker gets ‘misgendered’ by non-binary woman wearing a keffiyeh. “I’ll again thank delegates not to call me madame chair…I’m a non-binary person my pronouns are they/them and their- chair is sufficient.”

This is what nightmares are made of. Could easily be a comedy skit.

@Paulintoronto47 @RealShelfy Your the only other psycho on X thinking about Joe West versus the ABS system like me. 😆

@RealShelfy Angel Hernandez and Joe West got out of town just in time.

Absolutely electric lmao CB Buckner noticeably annoyed when he tapped the 2nd time only to be wrong again and listen to 40,000 people cheer for his incompetence 😂

Speakers at the Democratic Party conference in Canada argue over their “gender equity cards” which allows them to skip the line to speak This is real

@tonydude15 @Ambar_SIFF_MRA Why didn’t they just not attached the safety clips. Just roll and let the weights fall off.

Men have finally started minding their own business, exactly like the female gym influencers and feminists insisted via their constant gym videos calling innocent men as "creepy" in gym. Women are now free to enjoy being strong and independent.

@DLee075 Staos should be fired for this. Not being able to have a backup goalie. When your 8 mill goalie is complete flake.

The Sens absolutely need to target a 1B goaltender in the off-season. You can't just have a traditional back-up with Ullmark's vulnerability. High and lows in a season are expected but to need "rest" when you make $8.2M and you're season's essentially on the line, not okay.

@ThoughtCrimes80 Smart man. Get a down payment first.

Dating in Denver is something. She needed a TV mounted in her apartment, so she asked her Hinge date to come over and help because he claimed to be “handy.” He asks to grab her boobs in exchange for the service and she declines. He turns around and walks out. 😂😭

Why are we paying these grifters anything? This arena is never going to get built

@JeffreyLuscombe Same. We used to visit lake placid NY, 4-6 times a year. We haven’t been there since February 2025.

We cancelled a planned trip to Florida last winter and another in the summer to New York City. I hear a LOT of other Canadian have done the same. You?

@mark_slapinski Our local teens can’t find a summer job.

Dear Conservatives: If you think Liberals 'destroyed' this country Name 1 thing you can't do today that you could do 10 years ago.

@jrizal1957 @RubinReport How can he make Strange new worlds not suck. And then say. Let’s put a chick in it and make it lame ?

@RubinReport Alex Kurtzman ruined the Star Trek franchise. He should never be the executive producer or show runner of another Star Trek series.

Paramount has cancelled the new Star Trek. The alien in the middle here will be on the next season of The View instead…

@Harry__Faulkner Canadas founding fathers needed to eliminate the French and Indians when they were creating Canada. These clowns have set Canada back.

An Air Canada plane crashes, resulting in the deaths of two pilots. Over on Radio-Canada, the "conservative" on the panel is having a fit that the Air Canada CEO didn't speak French in his video and demands his resignation over it. Someone should let these people on the panel know that the victims in this tragedy were the pilots and the injured passengers, not the French language.

@ohwenjonez @JillCo More likely if he cannot speak French.

@JillCo was rejected not because of grades but because he's a white male

I have a Canadian friend who is now an internal medicine doctor. He tried to get into med school in Canada - was rejected not because of grades but because he's a white male - so he went abroad. He then did his residency in Miami. He returned to Canada and applied to be a doctor in his home country. Was rejected. He was just hired by a huge hospital outside of Boston where he'll make triple the salary. His wife said when she gets pregnant, they'll have their baby in the US. And this is how brain drain happens. Canada does not nurture/protect its talent. This is why the country is bleeding intelligent/successful people - and they're relocating to America en masse.

@BluesAlchemyst @GregorioSh64773 What is her famous song ? I have never heard of her.

@GregorioSh64773 Self-absorbed soon to be a has-been and she's an attention seeker from the way she's adorned with the bad makeup and hair color not a color from nature. True character will always be seen by clowns like her

Insufferable, self-important pop star Chappell Roan and her security guard allegedly made Jude Law's 11-year-old daughter cry at a hotel restaurant. The details of the allegations are beyond. Who treats their fans this way? Of course she denies all of it. In truth, she tries to sell herself as some sort of social justice warrior saving future pop singers when in reality she is a rude a-hole!

@jerbear_crypto @JigglyPants44 True. Even gun stealing Marco said he liked the interview.

I know 6 conservatives that have watched the Joe Rogan interview with Pierre Poilievre and have all decided to vote Liberal now

@Jacobtheclipper Wasn’t Perkins and Garnett injured for game 7 in 2009 ?

Man, I just want Pau to go on a podcast and FLAME all these former Kobe teammates. He’s one of the main guys who can call them all out. Pau was considered a “soft Euro” when he played for the Grizzlies, and everyone said he wasn’t a winner. He came to the Lakers and they went to the Finals his first year. He got bullied by KG and Perkins in the ’08 Finals. The “soft” narrative continued. That summer, Kobe pushed Pau like he’d never been pushed before: early-morning training, late-night weight-room sessions, endless film sessions. Kobe verbally abused him daily in practice, calling him weak. How did Pau respond? He toughened up and stepped up. One of the greatest Laker playoff runs in ’09, then in ’10. He faced the Celtics again and not only held his own- he was DOMINANT. Kob was training DAWGS. Some stepped up and became champions. Others, 15 years later, went on a podcast and complained about Kobe’s leadership style✌️