That may be its ultimate legacy: the shuttle symbolizes an ambitious effort to make spaceflight as routine as airline travel.
There is (sigh) British Airways, but a clue as to geographical whereabouts is routine with airlines.
For example, the analysis of different narratives from the professionals involved in a routine operation when airline pilot Martin Bromiley's wife died in 2005 revealed the problems in communication that led to her death [ 32].
(The data are also sometimes downloaded onto portable computers after routine flights for airlines to use in establishing the normal flight characteristics of each plane).
There is no requirement for airlines to check passenger names against a no-fly list for flights not bound for the United States, she said, and thus no routine way for airlines to know before takeoff if they will be denied entry to American airspace, as the KLM plane was.
Those airlines send routine personal background information on their elite fliers to the T.S.A., which decides on a trip-by-trip basis which passengers will receive boarding passes allowing them to use PreCheck lanes.
G.E. posts data on its Web pages -- stripped, of course, of identification -- on how efficiently hospitals use its CAT scanners, how often airlines do routine maintenance on its engines, how well utilities use waste heat or water to generate more electricity.
Indeed, the Department of Transportation now requires routine reports from the airlines; these are made available at www.dot.gov.
They decentralize work that requires local knowledge and interpersonal skills like product design, sales and on-the-fly adjustments on the factory floor, and they centralize and computerize work that is easily quantified, like accounts payable systems and obtaining the lowest airline fares for routine travel.
She knows a thing or two about routine: She sticks to one airline, Northwest, so that she knows what to expect and can reap the benefits of being an elite passenger.
