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A less soggy self portrait from yesterday when I went out the second time into the rain to forage for dinner in Chinatown since the power was out in my building. I went for pho. :)
Thankfully it had calmed down considerably when I went out again!
This site isn’t so much for travel narrative as it is for looking at pictures, so I’ll cut out a full day’s narrative, save for this:
Thursday was close to an eleven hour day of travel to get from Yangshuo to Detian. I spent less than 90 minutes shooting at the falls. From Detian (western part of the province on the Vietnamese border), I had to make my way to Beihai (southern, coastal city on the Gulf of Tonkin). It was, in distance, much shorter than Yangshuo-Detian. However, it turned into a reasonably miserable travel day and took about twelve hours (with about five of those hours spent in a bus station waiting room in Nanning). I got to my hotel in Beihai around 9:30 p.m. on Friday night. (I would stay in the same hotel Sunday night as well.)
The only positive to come from Friday’s travel was on the bus from Detian to Daxin (and on to Nanning). There was a very nice girl traveling with her parents who wanted to practice her English who happened to have visited Beihai. I think she said she was from Guangdong, too. Anyway, what I wanted to do most in Beihai was go to Weizhou Island (Weizhou Dao). She suggested (almost implied it was required) that I needed to book tickets on the ferry to Weizhou Dao in advance, so she helped me and called someone she knew in Beihai to reserve a ticket for me at 8:30 on Saturday morning.
I really didn’t know too much about Weizhou Dao, except that it was listed in Lonely Planet as a place to go. I did try to research it online, too, but couldn’t find too many pictures of the island. I found a few, though, and it was enough to convince me that it was worth going. Besides, Beihai honestly didn’t have too many places I was interested in seeing for two days.
So, I decided before the trip that I would come out and spend the night here on Weizhou Island. That turned out to be about the best decision I made for this trip, as it was much better than I was expecting from the lack of information I could find about the place.
I fell in love with this island. The ride across the Gulf of Tonkin takes a little over an hour on a high-speed boat. The cost is 150 RMB, which also includes admission to the island. The island is the remnants of a volcano, I believe, and is a reasonably circular island with a total area of 25-30 square kilometers. So…it’s small.
The port at Weizhou Dao is on the northwest corner of the island. The main city (that is to say the one place where there’s a main street running along the water for about 1 km) is called Nanwan (South Bay). To get around the island, you can either walk, rent a bike, or take a san lun che (tuk tuk). San lun che is the easiest. Depending on where you want to go on the island, it costs between 20 and 40 RMB to go from place to place. There are cars on the island, and people (though not many) do live here year-round, but for public transportation, those are your options, and they’re more than enough.
I think I paid 30 RMB to a guy to get me down to Nanwan. I hadn’t booked anything in advance (though I tried), so went to the first place that Lonely Planet mentioned: Piggybar. This was a very cheap place and as close to a dive as any place I’ve stayed in China.
This was the tropics in June, so the weather was sweltering. It turns out that I wouldn’t be alone in my room. I stopped counting how many cockroaches I killed somewhere after five or so. Big-sized suckers, too. But, that would be later in the day. At night, the electricity constantly cut out. This was only a slight annoyance because it would turn the air conditioner off. Sleeping wasn’t nearly as uncomfortable as I thought it would be. I also stopped counting how many times the power would go off. (It was never for more than 5 minutes, though.) I certainly don’t fault the Piggybar for this. The power apparently just goes out around Nanwan like that.
I did enjoy the main drag in Nanwan. There are a lot of neat little bars and restaurants (and what seemed like a much nicer hotel about midway along the road). I don’t remember the name of the place, but if I make it back there, I’d definitely stay at that place instead.
After I checked into my room in the morning, I took stock of things, thought the view in the south bay was pretty nice, and headed out for a walk towards the rest of the main drag. As this is an island, almost all restaurants have fresh seafood (which, for anyone who knows me, isn’t appealing…but seafood lovers would be in heaven here). I stopped at a restaurant and grabbed an early lunch of generic non-seafood Chinese food. It was so generic that it was forgettable. Maybe it was huntun, which is like a small dumpling soup. I really don’t remember.
While sitting there in the open-air shade enjoying the view of the sea, three college girls came along on bikes they rented and joined me. They, too, were from Guangdong if I remember correctly. I was beginning to think everyone was from Guangdong, but I know better than that. At any rate, they were friendly and we were talking about what to do around the island.
For me, the most interesting place to photograph was going to be the Catholic church. There are two churches on the island – one Catholic (founded by the French), one protestant (founded by Germans, I believe), both around 100 years old, if not a little older. Of the two, the Catholic church is the much more photogenic of the two, so that was what I was most looking forward to shooting, and that was the first place I was going to head via san lun che. It cost 40 RMB to get there. The girls had bikes, so I told them to try to get there – it was on the opposite side of the island…somewhere in the northeast part, but not on the water. They didn’t quite make it, but no worries. I saw them later, and they told me they did eventually get to it.
I wandered around the church and church grounds, and also the streets in front of it for an hour or so in the early afternoon. The church itself was quiet and peaceful and the street in front of it was lively with lots of vendors.
Besides the church, there are a lot of places with natural beauty on this island. As it’s created from a volcano, there are a lot of fascinating rock formations, but those tend to shoot best in lower light closer to sunrise or sunset. There’s even another small island nearby that you can apparently get boat rides to. While near the church, I was enjoying a map of the island with its scenic spots and their flowery names. I decided to go to one that they called Drippy Red Screen. (After all, who doesn’t want to see a screen that drips like blood?)
Really, it’s called that because it’s a dark-colored rock that, close to sunset, apparently turns a vibrant red. I figured, if this is a good place to see a sunset over the sea, I’m there. I left the church around 3:00, and paid a guy another 40 RMB to wheel me back across to the southwest corner of the island.
Though it was far from sunset, I was all too happy to go rent an umbrella and wooden beach chair for 30 RMB with a “front row view” of the sunset. This was vacation, after all, and what better way to spend it than relaxing next to a beach, people watching. At first, there weren’t too many people around. Just a few groups of entrepreneurs like these who took a little area of the beach and rented the umbrellas/chairs. There were also people who you could pay to take you around on jet skis and things like that. Other than that, just sit back, enjoy a drink, and watch boats drift by in seemingly slow motion. This was a good afternoon.
After a few hours, as it got closer to sunset, the tide started to roll out, though, and my front row view began to take more and more of a back seat. Not to umbrellas, but just to people crowding the view. During the 4 or so hours that I was at the beach here, I did manage to take a walk down the way to the Drippy (Not So) Red Screen closer to sunset to see that it wasn’t quite what they hyped it up to be. (That’s a shock…) I didn’t wander more because, as a lone traveler, I was worried they might sell my spot to someone else, even though I said I’d be back. They didn’t, though, and I returned to my umbrella for a few minutes more. There came a tipping point, though – before sunset – when I made the decision that the sunset wasn’t shaping up to be so spectacular that it would warrant being in this crowded an area, so I eventually abandoned hopes of getting jaw-dropping sunset pictures and made my way back to Nanwan before the rest of the crowd did the same. At least this san lun che would only cost 20 RMB, since Nanwan was barely a 10-15 minute ride away.
Back on Nanwan’s main drag, I had the driver drop me in front of the hotel, but I wasn’t ready to go in. I just wanted to walk along the main road there, and eventually discovered all of these unique indoor-outdoor bars. I stopped and had dinner (fried rice, if I remember) and a mango smoothie that was so good that I had a second one in this neat little restaurant where tourists write their memories on the walls.
After that, I continued down the road – all this as the sunset was turning the sky to a deep blue (and I was, after all, quite pleased with what I was able to see here) – and stopped at another bar for a drink. I had a mojito that was honestly forgettable. It tasted more like carbonated soda water than anything. Not seeing much to do besides drink myself into oblivion (which I don’t care to do), I went back out and enjoyed the last of the day’s light before walking back towards the Piggybar. On the way back, I bumped into my college friends from earlier, who told me they’d enjoyed the island, and they did get to the church after all. On the way back is when the first of the power “flickers” happened with electricity dropping on the island.
Without much to do in my hotel room, I tried to stay as comfortable as possible with the air conditioning that continued to go off. It wasn’t as hard to fall asleep as I imagined, and I fell asleep early, which also gave me an early start the next morning for sunrise over the bay.
After checking out of the hotel, still very early (around 8:00), I set off with my backpack and bag and started the walk uphill. My only goal for Sunday morning on the island was to go to the protestant church and photograph there before heading to the dock and making my way back to Beihai.
It was a nice little walk as the road away from Nanwan does a zigzag straight uphill to give a nice view of the town and bay. Also, like western Guangxi, Weizhou Dao’s “countryside” is nothing but banana farms, which was quite nice to see. I shot there a little bit and, when I tired of walking after an hour or so, flagged down a san lun che and paid 30 RMB for him to take me to the protestant church, then to the dock.
The protestant church, unlike the Catholic one, had a 10 RMB admission, and wasn’t nearly as interesting (for me, at least) as the more famous Catholic church. It was nice, however, and I was glad to see it as my “farewell” to the island. From there, I went to the dock and got a ticket for the first available boat back to Beihai.
I really enjoyed my day and night here on Weizhou Dao and was looking forward to one last, relaxing evening in Beihai before getting back to the daily tedium of Chengdu. But first, one more night to go…
Ross Dress for Less (29,797 square feet)
4107 Portsmouth Boulevard, Suite 200, The Crossroads at Chesapeake Square, Chesapeake, VA
This location opened in the mid 2000s; it was originally part of Wal-Mart #1682, which opened on July 31st, 1991 and relocated here on July 17th, 2002.
The vast number of birds, both migratory and resident, allows anyone who enjoys the wonders of these winged friends a great experience whenever visiting Mill Creek Marsh, a quiet, almost hidden, sanctuary of wildlife. The variety of bird and plant species is incredible, so if one is appreciative of such, then learning something new is the norm. In addition, there are some furry, adorable critters and several kinds of turtle, including quite large snappers. Seasonal changes always keep things fresh and interesting . . .
While returning to the main path near the northern end of the park, coming from a short extension that leads to a platform overlook, came so close to stepping on this very young Praying Mantis—perhaps about an inch in length. At first, as this tiny light green insect hopped and landed right in the spot of my next step, I had seen it just in time, and stepped back a little. My first thought was that it had to be a very small grasshopper. So, I called out to my wife ahead of me, and said, “Check this out . . . a very tiny grasshopper!” Then, within a split second, I realized what stood before me—before my foot, actually. It was a pretty young Praying Mantis. It looked up at me, then noticed Elaine approaching. I placed my sunglasses on the ground for size reference, then allowed it to walk up the arm. The little bugger seemed quite content as it groomed itself every few seconds. It would then explore the arm and hair follicles. I had my wife put out her arm, and the green creature instantly went to her. There it continued to preen at every opportunity, and again, would proceed to scope out her arm. After taking a few shots and very gently petting it, now and then, which it somehow seemed to enjoy, we tried to lower the arm by a tree in which the egg casings are often seen. Trying a variety of new destinations for it to board, each attempt would result in an almost refusal like reaction . . . as if it wanted to remain on our being. Eventually, I had to pry it off of her arm in a gingerly manner, before it would finally step onto a vegetated area, only to disappear within seconds, right in front of us. After some careful search between the two of us, we would spot it. With every trial in securing a photo in it natural element, once the camera was lifted toward my eye seeking the view finder, it would be gone. So, we had no luck with the return to home photo(s) . . .Until, out of the blue—or green, in this case—we got a glimpse as we preceded to depart. Luckily, the setting on the camera was almost right for the conditions, but no time was wasted in trying to make any final adjustments. Given that you are seeing a closer version in the comfort of your home, it does not appear to be nearly impossible to see, but in the real world scale, believe me, it is really tough to pin point where it might sit. To make matters worse, they often like to hang on the underside of leaves.
With less than two weeks till Christmas, Iowa Pacific's Polar Express is seconds away from ending one of it's many hour long excursions from Bristow to Depew, Oklahoma (a.k.a. - The North Pole) and back. The E8 is seen here crossing East 5th Avenue in Bristow.
As evidenced by the saggy crookedness of parts of this model, this was my first proper experience building with chipboard - but it's a lovely modeling medium, especially with my beefy new #2 X-Acto knife (for medium and heavy materials). The nice thing about chipboard is that it's firmer and thicker than Bristol board, meaning that it's not only a lot easier to build with (especially when gluing on the short dimension), it's better-suited to representing actual buildings, since walls and floors have thickness. At 1/8 scale (that is, one-eighth inch in model equals one foot in our imagination of the "real" building), a 1/16"-thick piece of chipboard is 6" thick in scale...more or less the thickness of stud wall construction in 2x4s. Two pieces layered together is a foot thick, more or less the thickness of a floor/ceiling.
This model (although not this photo so much) is intended to showcase the main driving ideas of the final design:
1) Transition in massing from two-story building (to match what's across the street in the back) to four-story building (to match what's next door in front). Note that a grade change of +9' from back to front means that an entire story can be sunken below the sidewalk in front. The transition in massing not only serves the neighborhood context, it also makes possible a distinct, exterior-visible space recognizable as a separate apartment for Grandpa, and a series of exterior terraces serving different functions and setting up the required extra staircase for fire egress.
2) Massive cuts into public floor space in the interior to enable light from a top-story sunroom (and a skylight) to reach diagonally all the way to the basement library. This is more feasible on our site than others, simply because the square footage to start out with is absolutely massive, far greater than that required by the program. (One of the guest judges was repeatedly surprised that all of us filled up the entire site, rather than simply having less building, given all the surplus space.) The circulation around and up through these cuts also begins to organize program, with formal and public functions (library, living room, dining room, sunroom, guest bedroom) directly accessible off the main staircase; private bedrooms and the kitchen require turning off to the side from the landings.
At final review, the main thrust of the commentary was that, aside from the massive sectional moments in the middle (described, not positively, as an "atrium"), there's nothing at all going on sectionally: all the bedrooms and other spaces outside of the big open area have identical heights and similar volumes. Guest judge Marshall suggested taking my contextual cues one step further, picking up on the sectionally offset buildings across the side street. In theory, much more richness might be found in the cross between their patterns and the transitional pattern I was already working with. I'd briefly considered this avenue before, but found it somewhat hard to work with, and my tentative steps in this direction had been considered "fussy" by Jackie. But I think the proposition has merit and the stack-of-pancakes section is undoubtedly a problem.
You can always, of course, make the Fallingwater argument. The bedrooms at Fallingwater are notoriously ungenerous - one is basically a closet large enough for a bed. Wright's idea was that when you have this lovely landscape and amazing public space, why would you want a generous private space? Go mingle with the family! Be with nature! To a large extent I think Wright is correct - but I'm also not as good as Wright, and I think the case could be made that in practice the giant section here might not be all that great. Certainly it'd be rough on the heating bills, south-facing light or no. And while there are some slots of 2- and 3-story space, in general you are either in 1-story pancake space or giant skylight space. A system whose logic and rhythms produced some coherent volumes at medium scales would have been a lovely thing to come upon.
Also, while I'm pleased I did in the end make the basement library something that would actually be rather nice to inhabit, the schemes of my classmates that I liked the best were the ones with two- or three-story libraries - Casey's cube and Missy's serial loft design both. Casey's (as usual) was one of the best designs in terms of the way the basic form/facade organizes the program: the library cube is detached from the main pavilion, and elevated one story, creating a carport/patio and giving the collection of rare books a distinct and celebrated position. Meanwhile, the library cube is mirrored by a matching cube of public space in the main building, linking it all together and providing two very nice spaces in the process. Missy's scheme also had the library as a distinct pavilion at one end of the house, but as a three-story space with lofts/balconies along one side, accessible both from the first floor of the library and through circulation from the rest of the house. Rather than picking up on the "rare books" theme (which suggests a clean, no-children kind of break from the house), she seemed to fully develop the "heart of the home" program for the library as given in the assignment.
They were my two favorite schemes; maybe to some extent I just found them refreshing because I'd been working on my own design for so long, but they were really quite lovely.
end of Relay Creek FSR, up Gravel mountain, a road that will test any man's fear of heights and uncommon sense
...possibly. World Book Day is when your child is expected to dress up and go into school dressed as a character from a book.
Perhaps they'll be expected to dress up this year, for a Zoom* meeting.
* Other online meeting providers are available.
Seats at a corral that was site of a number of horse barrel races, horse shows and horse pulls. But it hasn't been used for years.
Jennifer and her friend Pascal at a wedding reception last saturday. This was taken using my new Sigma 500 flash, which is a god-send for these kinds of events where there is almost no usable light. I had no practice with such a thing though, and that night was my first time using it.
And yes, I know the straw's a bit distracting. :oP
BV74NFH takes a charge from the plug in unit on the stand. All a bit less complex than the pantograph used by the Volvos.
London General route 453: Marylebone Station, Great Central Street - Deptford Bridge
Great Central Street (M)
This 453 must have curtailed to Baker Street Station, two stops short of its termination point, then gone straight to its termination point. Point ... less much?
©London Bus Breh 2013.
raising of the hands with 5 fingers representing "5 demands not one less"
"liberate Hong Kong, revolution of our time" 光復香港 時代革命
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‘Resist tyranny, join a union’: Huge turnout as Hongkongers hit the streets for New Year’s Day protest
Thousands of Hongkongers took to the streets on Wednesday for the first police-approved mass protest of the new year.
The huge turnout built on a continuing a pro-democracy movement that has reached each corner of the city over the past seven months.
The march received a letter of no objection from the police, and began at around 2:40pm in Victoria Park in Causeway Bay.
The front of the march reached the endpoint at the Chater Road Pedestrian Precinct in Central just after 4pm.
In addition to the five core demands of the movement, protesters on Wednesday also called for increased union participation, supporting the victims of political reprisals, and halting a proposed pay rise for the police.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Five demands, not one less,” as well as new additions such as “Resist tyranny, join a union.”
Those at the head of the march included some newly-elected pro-democracy district councillors – whose term in office began on January 1.
A group outside Victoria Park were rallying Hongkongers to register to vote: “We want to use our vote to tell the Hong Kong government what we want… We want the people to come out again and win at the Legislative Council election [in September],” Ms Oliver told HKFP, following the pro-democracy camp’s victory at last year District Council elections.
Though the extradition bill – which sparked the movement – was axed, demonstrators are still demanding an independent probe into police behaviour, amnesty for those arrested, universal suffrage and a halt to the characterisation of protests as “riots.”
In a statement, march organisers the Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF) called on the public to be “more united, persistent, and caring of one another” in the coming year.
“In 2020, the police have already fired the first round of tear gas,” the group wrote shortly after midnight. “Carrie Lam and police brutality turned a festive season into anguish, and perhaps we should say ‘Five demands, not one less’ instead of happy new year.”
In a statement later on Wednesday, the Front said the police had taken no responsibility for any misconduct: “They dehumanise protestors as cockroaches, demean journalists as “black reporters” and arrest medical doctors and nurses as rioters. Now, the government even attempts to increase the salaries of these rioting police.”
“We must persist this fight, for the arrested, injured and departed brothers and sisters in this movement. When victory comes, we shall gather at the dawn,” they added.
During the march, Ms Ho of the Construction Site Workers General Union said they had over 10,000 signed-up members and around 100 active members: “It is a union that already exists, but now we are recruiting more workers with the same political stance,” she said.
“We aim for three targets. The first one, we want to defend our own worker’s rights… We want to get the right to vote in the coming legislative election [as a functional constituency]… The third aim – we are trying to use construction workers’ role in this movement – for example, volunteer teams for people in need – trying to prepare for the general strike.”.....
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民陣今日（1日）舉行「毋忘承諾，並肩同行」 元旦大遊行。在預定起步時間2時，銅鑼灣東角道已聚集大量等待插隊的民眾，亦有不少市民支持黃色經濟圈，黃店「渣哥」有逾百人排隊光顧。
In this comparison you can see that the polarizing filter creates extra contrast between the clouds and the blue sky. There seems to be less contrast in the leaves on the tree at the right side of the image.
I just returned from a perfect morning for prairie chickens...what a treat to view and hear these males doing their best to impress the females.
05/21/09: I love my cousin. She's always there for me to run around in fields and switch dresses with out in the open. :D Today was so random and awesome.
"And for the first time, I feel less alone. And for the first time, I can call this home."
- The Maine.
Finally after 3 months, I manage to hide all cables from the upgrades, and the lights make a more calm and relaxing ambiance to listen music or working at night.
Awaiting for a bigger Gemini USB cable from iFi and some other stuff that will not be visible.
The solos are great, is this room there is no need for a sub. So my Monitor Audio sub will be here but disconnected.
iFi launched a new firmware 5.0 for their devices, with the option of no standby, for me was a golden decision from iFi, because I never hear with headphones.
Hope you like it.
Best Regards.
Com certeza não era brasileira. Eu tinha visto outra mas era feia. Essa ai apesar de acompanhada valeu o click ;)
Pipa - RN
Photo by Matthew Robison
With less than 24 hours' notice, almost 200 people turned out in Perry Square on Tuesday, May 20 to celebrate Judge John E Jones III striking down Pennsylvania's so-called Defense of Marriage Act. Marriage equality is now the rule of the land in Pennsylvania, and Governor Corbett has said that Pennsylvania will NOT appeal the federal ruling. Speakers included Mike Mahler of Erie Gay News and NW PA Pride Alliance; Atty. Richard Ruth, legal director for ACLU NW PA; Kathy and Christina Czarnecki-Smith, who married in New York state; Rich McCarty, senior pastor at Community United Church and president of Greater Erie Alliance for Equality and who also read a supportive statement from State Sen. Sean Wiley; Rev. Steve Aschmann of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Erie; David Moore, founder and president of Marriage Equality for Pennsylvania; Doris Cipolla, who had lost her partner Char to cancer 9 years and 1 month before and who was glad that other PA couples will not have to have similar experiences; Susan Woodland, President of NW PA NOW, and Joshua Szczesny, secretary and co-founder of Marriage Equality for PA. Also in attendance were Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper, proud mother of a gay son and also Erie County Councilmember Jay Breneman. Erie Sisters Transgender Support Group also turned out in support. Kathy Dahlkemper announced that a same sex couple had already applied for a marriage license that day. The couple was Michael Tkach, board member of Greater Erie Alliance for Equality and Bill Lechner, who have been together for 29 years. Also in the crowd were attorneys Jason Owen and Alison Scarpitti. Alison is legal counsel for Greater Erie Alliance for Equality and also served as attorney for Wendy and TJ Titus, who drove to Montgomery County to obtain a marriage license when that county was allowing same sex couples to get licenses earlier this year.
There was media coverage by both local TV news crews and also Erie Times News. Special thanks to ACLU and Equality PA for providing materials and helping with preparations.
Special thanks go out to NW PA Pride Alliance board members who helped with running the event, Season Crannell, Alex Sphon, Daniel Thomas and Kelly Kidd. Thanks to our photographers, NW PA Pride Alliance board member Matthew Robison and Erie Gay News co-editor Deb Spilko. Special thanks to Christopher Strayer for bringing rainbow sherbet, an especially appropriate treat.
Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, also less commonly known as Wold–Chamberlain Field, is a joint civil-military public use international airport. It is located in a portion of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, within 10 miles (16 kilometers) of both downtown Minneapolis and Saint Paul. MSP is the largest and busiest airport in the six-state Upper Midwest region of Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The airport is mostly located in the census-designated place of Fort Snelling in an unincorporated portion of Hennepin County. Small sections of the airport are within the city limits of Minneapolis and Richfield. However, per Minnesota state law, the land on which the airport sits is not part of any city or school district.
The airport was named Best Airport in North America among air terminals that serve 25 to 40 million passengers annually, the second largest category, in 2016 and 2017 by The Airports Council International. The airport generates an estimated $15.9 billion a year for the Twin Cities' economy and supports 87,000 workers.
MSP airport in 2009 looking towards the northeast.
In terms of passengers, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport was the 17th busiest airport in the United States and the 49th busiest in the world as of 2016. A joint civil-military airport, MSP is also home to the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport Joint Air Reserve Station, supporting both Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard flight operations.
Of all the passengers that fly through MSP, about 40% of them are connecting from other cities with a layover at MSP and about 60% originate at the airport. Sixteen airlines operate out of MSP, serving 163 nonstop destinations from the airport, including 136 domestic and 27 international markets. Internationally, Delta Air Lines flies to five trans-oceanic destinations with year-round service to Amsterdam, London-Heathrow, Paris–Charles de Gaulle, and Tokyo–Haneda, and seasonal service to Reykjavík–Keflavík. Beginning on April 1, 2019, Delta will bring the airport its first nonstop flight to Seoul, South Korea[7] accompanying service from Atlanta, Detroit, and Seattle. In addition, Air France has seasonal service to Paris, Condor Airlines has seasonal service to Frankfurt, Icelandair has year-round service to Reykjavík, and KLM resumed year-round service to Amsterdam in March 2017, subsequently beginning MSP's first Boeing 787 service in October 2017. Also, Aer Lingus will begin year-round service to Dublin beginning on July 8, 2019. With the addition of Aer Lingus, MSP will have nonstop service to eight overseas destinations. Delta and Sun Country Airlines both serve many cities throughout the Caribbean, Central America, Canada, and Mexico with seasonal or year-round service. In the coming years, Delta is expected to launch a direct route to Mexico City via their partner, AeroMéxico. Compared to other large metropolitan areas in the United States, only Atlanta and Denver serve more non-stop markets per capita.
MSP is the second largest hub airport for Delta Air Lines and its Delta Connection partners. Compass Airlines and Endeavor Air have their official headquarters nearby. It also serves as the home airport for Minnesota-based Sun Country Airlines. Northwest had a hub at the airport until its 2010 merger with Delta Air Lines. The Delta Connection partner Mesaba Airlines was also headquartered nearby until December 2011 as it completed its merger with Pinnacle Airlines. Delta Air Lines accounts for more than 70% of the airport's passenger traffic. The airport is operated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission, which also handles the operation of six smaller airports in the region.
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