Article: Aviation hollow: welcome to 2026, Mr. Van Winkle. I understand you've been asleep since 2006. Don't know how that happened, but they tell me you want to know what's happened in aviation since then. In the first place, let me say right up front that we haven't solved all the problems--not by a long shot.(GROUND CLUTTER)

Back in 2006, seems like everyone thought the solution to everything was just around the cornet. New airplanes, new airports, and new guvmint programs were going to fix everything and everyone would live happily ever after. It didn't happen. Yeah, we learned how to handle a lot more traffic a lot more smoothly, but the traffic grew even faster than our ability to handle it. Every time we got one problem worked out, three more popped up.

Let me see, the Airbus A-380 was just entering the scene when you dropped out, wasn't it? You remember that was going to solve problems by carrying more people at one time, thus freeing up more gates at airports. It did, too, but ...

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