Writes of Passage

Some airlines, fleet size / destinations; stock price 2025.6.02

• CX, Cathay Pacific, 1946: 180/83; HKG: 0293 HK$10 
• UA, United, 1926: 1,034/380; UAL $80
• DL, Delta, 1925: 985/311; DAL $48
• AA, American, 1926/36: 988/353; AAL $11   
• LH, Lufthansa, 1953/55: 274/229; lhag €7
• KE, Korean Air, 1962: 167/108; $16 (22,650krw)
• BA, British Airways, 1974: 244/206; ba £335
• AF, Air France, 1919: 226/184; airf €9
• F9, Frontier Air, 1994: 163/85; ULCC $4   
• B6, JetBlue, 1998: 286/114; JBLU $5 
• EL, Air Lingus, 1936: 58/97
• AK, AirAsia, 1993: 255/166
• CI, China Air, 1959: 85/102; 中华航空
• CA, Air China, 1988: 505/210; 中国航空
• FM, Shanghai Airlines 1985: 88/85; 上海航空
• MU, China Eastern Airlines 1988: 663/226; 中国东方

Some airports …

US

1. ALT – Atlanta (Delta)
2. JFK – John F. Kennedy (JetBlue; DL, AA)
3. LGA – La Guardia (DL, AA)
4. TPA – Tampa
5. SFO – San Francisco
6. OAK – Oakland
7. LAX – Los Angeles
8. DFW – Dallas/Fort Worth (AA)
9. IAH – Houston
10. IAD – DC: Dulles Int’l
11. DCA – DC: Ronald Reagan
12. HSV – Huntsville
13. ORD – Chicago (United)
14. SAF – Santa Fe regional
15. SLC, 1911: Salt Lake City

Americas

• CUN – Cancun
• EZE – Buenos Aires, Argentina
• GIG – Rio de Janeiro
• MGA – Managua
• SDU – Santos Dumont @ Rio de Janeiro
• USH – Ushuaia
• YHZ – Halifax
• YYZ – Toronto

China, includes Hong Kong & Taiwan

1. PEK – Beijing
2. PVG – Shanghai
3. SHA – Shanghai
4. TPE – Taipei
5. TNA – Ji’nan

Asia

• HND – Haneda
• NTR – Narita
• ICN – Seoul
• BKK – Bangkok
• DMK – Bangkok
• SAI – Siem Reap
• SGN – Saigon

Europe

• CDG – Charles de Gaulle (AF)
• FRA – Frankfurt am Main (LH)
• IST – Istanbul
• LHR – London Heathrow (BA)
• LGW – Gatwick
• ORY – Paris Orly
• PRG – Prague

2 S Station Plaza,
Great Neck, NY 11021

A pleasant cafe next to the train station, good spot for a neighborly gathering. Before Crawfords, it was a Caffe Bene. It’s a day that we switch to Daylight saving time, the moon is clearly seen at 6:56pm.

It became a tiny island off Guangzhou in 1859 during the second opium war, when Brits and French dug a river, separating it from the Guangzhou main land. It’s now 900 meters from EW, mere 300m NS direction. It was also known as Shameen or Shamin. Shamian means “sandy surface”.

^{wiki, circa 1920}

The English Bridge is seen at the top, NS directional (having 3/5 portion of the Island) and the French Bridge is to the right, NE directional, where the French Concession was, about 2/5 of the Island.

On the Island now, there are:

• Victory (Victoria) Hotel
• White Swan Hotel
• .

Some old photos are mostly from LOC,

• wiki
• hated foreigners

more

• Looking toward the Shamian from the Custom House
• Western part of the Island

• The “floating” population on Shamian Canal, from English Bridge
• The Shameen Canal from the French Bridge
• Looking west on the Central Promenade
• Looking across the Shamian Canal
• The Shamian Canal
• West from the English Bridge