#MSP-AMS
December 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
At AMS this morning heading back to BNA via MSP. Unfortunately, we have an old A330-300 (again) rather than the much newer (and nicer) A339-900neo that flew this route yesterday. The KLM Crown lounge is decent though. #avgeek
November 30, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Going though old photos, these are from 2001 from the first set of pics on my laptop. Flight was from ATW to MSP to AMS (Schiphol) #travel #aviation #avgeek
February 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
A couple of trans-Atlantic overflights passing over a setting Moon this morning

#DL160 MSP-AMS & #RJ282 IAD-AMM

#moon #iphone #aviation
January 2, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Flying home MSP-AMS-HAM
August 28, 2024 at 9:18 PM
And also as I've noted a few times on BBS, the "correct" AMS apportionment last month was 24 Reform vs 20 Labour MSPs. "Labour GAIN Paisley!" for example isn't an additional Labour MSP, it's an additional Reform MSP. You think Scottish Labour are miserable now, now imagine they are Properly Third!
June 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Finally looked up what transit there was from MSP to the AMS/SMT conference hotel and I genuinely love that the train runs all day and drops us off just 2 blocks from the hotel.

Public transit is awesome.
October 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
If you see this, post something orange

Flying back across the Atlantic and there's a very low cloud layer over the UK
January 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
On today's flight from AMS-MSP the soup is a Thai inspired coconut soup, served with smoked salmon. The main course is a fish and prawn curry. The wine is a South African Chenin Blanc, full bodied with good freshness and acid. #avgeek
November 30, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Extremely on my brand comment: worried Kate Forbes standing down is going to lead to a 4th Lib Dem MSP in the Highlands and Islands even if they only have the proportional votes for 3, but I suppose it'll be unique for one region to not have the SNP being the AMS busters (if current polling holds)
August 4, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The regional rather than national nature of AMS proportionality (strained as it is at the moment) is an additional 4 seat advantage for the SNP, at the cost of 2 Conservative, 1 Lib Dem, 1 Green and 1 Reform MSP ("perfect" AMS would also over-represent Labour by one seat!)

Wild voting system!
May 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Labour accepted the compromise of AMS as they assumed they'd have a majority of those FPTP seats sewn up; right now, per BBS model, FPTP is handing the SNP a 16 seat advantage, at the cost of 5 Labour, 4 Reform, 3 Lib Dem, 3 Conservative and 1 Green MSP that "should" be elected under ideal AMS...
This is a function of having 73 constituency MSPs elected by FPTP and 56 MSPs elected by regional list vote using d'Hondt.

The cause isn't the number of parties, but the differential number of parties appealing to different shares of voters - a problem that has plagued unionist parties since 2014
May 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Lady next to me on our flight from AMS -> MSP:
“I just went to Spain and Italy”

The same lady, tasting her airplane ravioli: “This is good!”

Me, screaming internally, eating the same thing: “WHERE DID YOU EAT THAT THIS IS GOOD?!”
April 26, 2024 at 11:42 PM
Figuring out my January travel and woo, it's gonna be a lot: BOS, MSP, CPH, BRU, AMS. #opensource #travel
December 21, 2024 at 11:46 AM
Nonstops between midsize metros in the US and Europe are especially interesting to me (e.g., PIT–DUB, RDU–KEF, CLT–ATH, PDX–AMS, MSP-CPH)
September 21, 2026 at 1:48 AM
On today's flight from AMS-MSP the soup is a Thai inspired coconut soup, served with smoked salmon. The main course is a fish and prawn curry. The wine is a South African Chenin Blanc, full bodied with good freshness and acid. #avgeek
November 30, 2024 at 11:03 AM
Air to Ground Message:

FLT 162 MSP-AMS HERE QUA RENTINED AT DEICE PAD PER DISPATCH ORDER TO DECLARE MED EMER AND CONTACT XXXXXX PORT HEATH FOR POSSIBLE INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Area: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Type: Airbus A330-300
A: #a2516f41314
F: #f5d13f3b9ff
August 18, 2026 at 9:14 AM
AMS
MSP
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Everywhere else

CDG
I also have a theory that the only airport that makes sense, and is the model every airport should follow is your home airport. All others feel weird and incorrect.
The Orlando airport is simultaneously very well organized and absolute chaos.
December 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I figured east Africa would be important. Wondering about India, of course, since India is a no-go for US operators now. And since the ME-3 don't serve MSP, connections are funneled over LHR, AMS, CDG and FRA. Not a lot of discount options there.
January 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The AMS-MSP $DAL flight I’m currently on is bursting at the seams
June 1, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Reform would have one more seat in Edinburgh & the SNP would have one less if AMS worked as intended.

@richard-wood.bsky.social says there needs to be a "sensible grown-up conversation" about proportional representation

@heraldscotland.bsky.social

www.heraldscotland.com/news/2610948...
How 'disproportionate' voting system cost Reform a second Edinburgh MSP
Richard Wood, founder of Upgrade Holyrood, told The Herald that changes are needed to balance Scotland’s “disproportionate” electoral system.
www.heraldscotland.com
May 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Oooofff that’s a long flight…AMS to MSP. But a phone with a GPS fix doesn’t mind a bit.

Wigle.net, just a little bit…

@wiglenet.bsky.social #allTheWifi #warFly #wardrive #wiglenet
June 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What is wrong with AMS? I like it, I feel that my vote counts. I have a constituency MSP and with two votes I was able to vote for two parties, both of whom I feel bring positive contributions to Scottish Parliament. What don’t you like about it?
May 31, 2026 at 8:41 AM