New Airline Launching To Celebrate The End Of Freedom In Hong Kong

Sep 06 2021

There’s a new Chinese airline forming out of Hong Kong, expected to partially launch in four weeks, with an explicit aim of celebrating – and fostering – the turn of Hong Kong away from the west and towards the Chinese Communist Party.

Greater Bay Airlines plans to make its inaugural flight – a charter to Beijing – on October 1, the 72nd anniversary of the Community Party takeover of China.

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With So Many Airport Shops Still Closed, One Man Has Taken It On Himself To Sell You Snacks

Sep 06 2021

Airport concessions can be high-priced. But the bigger challenge is that so many of them remain closed as concessionaires struggle to find employees (and the airport works hard to keep wages down). That means fewer places to buy snacks and long lines for the places that are open.

One man has stepped into the breach, sensing an entrepreneurial opportunity.

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Should United’s CEO Fly American When Traveling With His Family?

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Sep 04 2021

An airline’s CEO gets unlimited free travel, naturally. But United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby is unique. He and his family don’t just get to fly United for free. They can fly as much as they want on American Airlines, any flight in any class of service, as well.

That’s because Kirby was let go as President of American Airlines and immediately became President of United – in a move I hoped at the time would make both airlines better (it’s benefited United). This paved the way for Kirby to become CEO at United.

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Did Shoe Bomber Richard Reid Win In The End?

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Sep 04 2021

Richard Reid, the “Shoe Bomber”, is a British career criminal who converted to Islam in prison and came a member of Al Qaeda. He attempted to blow up American Airlines flight 63 from Paris to Miami on December 22, 2001. The plot was foiled by several factors, from high humidity to Reid’s own perspiration dampening the fuse along with another passenger smelling smoke.

He was arrested, charged, convicted and eventually given 3 life sentences plus 110 years in prison without the possibility of parole.

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