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Here’s Why Airport Food is So Expensive (And Why It Isn’t Very Good)
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Several US Routes Getting British Airways New Business Suites
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Bullets Found Inside Reader’s Room at an Airport Holiday Inn
Reader Joe checked into an airport Holiday Inn and found an unlisted amenity on sitting atop his room’s safe: bullets. I don’t normally embark on special forces missions, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night!
Delta Declares the Airport Experience the Next Battleground, But Can’t Actually Make It Better
Delta thinks they have the flight experience part of travel down and won, and their CFO declares “the next area of competition in air travel is in the airport.” But they’ve turned over too much of the travel experience to government airports, government security, and government air traffic control to really make a difference.
Delta is likely to identify some some incremental improvements to reduce hassle and declare them revolutionary. And if it’s even a little better than the United and American airport experience they’ll be hailed for it.
American Express is Facing Record Costs to Provide Rewards
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VIDEO: Buzz Aldrin Punched a Moon Landing Denier in the Face
If nothing else, walking on the moon is the ultimate cocktail party mic drop but it’s understandable that some don’t believe it actually happened. After all, without atmosphere how could the flag they planted on the moon be waving in the wind? And what about “the lack of stars in any of the photos, the Van Allen radiation belts that would have killed the astronauts with lethal doses of cosmic radiation”…?
Two Guys Made an Airplane Out of Falafel Fridays Paper Wrappers, and It Flies
Creative production company Wondros held a paper airplane contest. Two employees in the editorial department made a plane out of recycled lunch wrappers from the company’s “Falafel Fridays.”
What Made the Boeing 757 So Extraordinary
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The Economics of Private Jet Travel and How to Omakase
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