Sunday, August 31, 2025

The Professor’s Minute Minute – September 1 2025

 



Immigration absurdities, airport ambitions, labor rulings, bureaucratic fixes, and the uncomfortable truth about truth—plus a flight that barely leaves the ground.

  1. The absurdity of U.S. immigration policy

    Cases keep surfacing where logic and compassion are absent. Today’s anecdote: policy rigidity versus human reality.

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  2. Tokyo’s potential 3rd airport?

    Ibaraki Airport could play a bigger role as capacity pressures grow. The capital’s air system is already strained.

    Read more.

  3. CUPE flight attendants forced back

    Lexum details the CIRB decision mandating CUPE members return to work. A heavy-handed precedent in labor rights.

    Read more.

  4. Indonesia launches unified digital arrival platform

    Finally, some sanity in entry bureaucracy. A single digital system promises to simplify arrivals—if implementation holds up.

    Read more.

  5. Is our data being manipulated?

    KillerCharts digs into distortions in data reporting. Trust in numbers is fragile, and travel is no exception.

    Read more.

  6. Quirky: The flight that “takes off” but never leaves

    In Australia’s Outback, scenic flights like Qantas’s “Flight to Nowhere” offer passengers the full in-air experience… only to land back at the same airport. A tourism gimmick that somehow sells out.


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#Tags:

#Travel #Aviation #Airlines #Tourism #Immigration #Tokyo #IbarakiAirport #CUPE #Indonesia #DigitalTravel #DataIntegrity #QuirkyTravel #FlightsToNowhere


Picasso Style Note: With contradictions (immigration, labor law, manipulated data) and attempts at fixes (airports, digital entry), today is best captured in Analytical Cubism — fractured forms showing competing realities.

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