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...buy-onboard movement has inspired airlines to upgrade their menus. Some have teamed with celebrity chefs, others with national chains. Come fall, Continental Airlines, which had been the last major holdout, will stop offering free food on domestic coach flights and start charging for what it promises will be more appetizing fare. Even JetBlue, while not giving up its gratis Terra chips, is testing a pay menu. The twin goal is to generate profits and customer satisfaction as Virgin America has done with its microbrews and freshly muddled mojitos. David Johnson, a mechanical engineer in San Francisco, recently paid...
...really awful for a while, but eight out of the last 10 meals I've had have been pretty good," says Aliya Khan, a platinum-level American Airlines frequent flyer. Khan, a designer, was pleasantly surprised that, after sprinting across the Dallas airport to catch a flight, she could buy yogurt and fruit for $3 on the plane. "I think they're pricing really well," Khan says of the airline's $8-to-$10 sandwiches. "In the airport, it's $8, and it's crappy...
...take a look around this place you begin to realize how absurd many things are. Sir, you aren’t old enough to buy a drink; why are you starting a hedge fund? I receive e-mails over lists all the time in which the authors have signatures that are more than five lines long, listing a cell phone number in Barcelona, Shanghai, and Cambridge and, as if anyone else cares, the fact that they are an “A.B. Degree Candidate in History and Literature...
...Real crowd. Then it was forward Pedro Rodriguez who sealed the deal for the visitors, taking the Real defense by surprise and slamming the ball home. As Barcelona celebrated its victory it became apparent that the match had proved, once again, that money can’t buy wins...
...Business School would just have to change a setting on a pump to make it more efficient,” Arciprete says. “We would have to buy a whole new pump...