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Why London's Heathrow Airport Sometimes Hosts 'Ghost Flights' With No One on Them (jalopnik.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Six times per week, an empty plane used to fly from London's Heathrow Airport to Cardiff, Wales. The next day, the plane would make the return trip without a single passenger. Half As Interesting, the second channel from Planelopnik-approved Wendover Productions, details why ghost flights like this sometimes operate from Britain's biggest airport in his new video. Despite being one of the most crowded airports in the world, Heathrow operates with only two runways. As a result, it's extremely difficult to get a "slot pair" -- rights for airlines to land and take off at a certain time. Only 650 slot pairs exist per day, so airlines are prepared to drop massive cash in order to get prime slot pairs. And they can trade and sell them, too. [...] Should an airline fail to use their slot at least 80 percent of the time, Heathrow will reassign it to the next company on the waiting list.
Please explain to me again how Capitalism organizes the economy for the most efficient use of resources.
HA! Trick question. All isms suck.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
The problem with the chemtrail apparatus is not just the tanks, which require lightening the passenger load but the dispenser heads attached to each engine. In-flight turbulence causes the feed to become uneven. That's why in the bad-weather Midwest you get towns that totally swallow the Illuminati conspiracy to the extent that they have Knights Templars parades down Main Street, while the next town over will totally reject the conspiracy.
Sounds like that guy opened his mind so wide that his brain fell out.
I don't know how well-known this is, but from 2005-2008 the valves in the chemtrail dispersal equipment used by about two thirds of the airlines, was cheap shit made by some Chinese company. (This stuff isn't FAA-approved because that would require disclosing its existence, but on the upside that means there are many more bidders and it was really quite competitive. Even the "juice" was cheap as long as you weren't too much of a Nazi about consistency.) The valves would jam often, or spill way-too-high concentrations. They were such shitty valves. The short-term fix was always the same: you just cram two pieces of metal into there so that it's left slightly open. It would leak the mind-control chemicals continuously, but that was better than a full-on spill and during the flight it would still get distributed fairly close to correctly.
Anyway in the summer of 2007 I did the usual hack to keep the valve slightly open, and as I'm sure plenty of other people experienced, the inner piece punctured into the line.
Now, as you know, the juice isn't terribly effective on mere skin contact; I get this shit all over my fingers all the time and only suffer some slight delusions, which I always snap out of. Just the other day, for example, I got some on my boot and pantleg, and I believed the president was an obsequious puppy, wagging his tail whenever he heard Putin's voice or saw that Putin was looking him in the eye. But then the next day I was fine, and realized the president is a stable genius.
But that time I punctured the line, it started really quite a leak, and my maintenance cart that I had parked next to the plane had been sitting in the sun and was very hot, and the stream dribbled onto it. There was this cloud that looked like smoke and the next thing you know OH FUCK, I AM BREATHING THIS SHIT JUST LIKE THE PLEBES!
Ever since then, I've no longer been sure that 9/11 was an inside job. It just seems so unreasonable and unbelievable that all the world's architects, structural engineers and firemen all just happened to get coerced at the same time, into a conspiracy to agree with the official story for how the towers fell. I can't figure out how so many tens of thousands of people maintain a secret without anyone speaking out. I know that I used to know how it they pulled it off, but now .. I simply can't remember! I've lost it. Possibly forever. It's been like 11 years now. I used to know the truth but there's just this .. fog.