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...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 $40 more...
Planes are tricky because of the cabin pressure and lack of humidity. That may explain Hobica's less than glowing review of the Boston Market chicken sandwich he had on a recent American Airlines flight. "It wasn't horrible," he says...
...There was a time about six months ago when somebody was picked up by that cab company out here at six o’clock in the morning off to get an early flight,” he remembers. “The cab driver apparently asked this person, ‘Is this a hotel or a private residence or what?’ because he was so accustomed to picking up different people each time...
...problem: for every brilliant stupid comedy, there are five really, really stupid ones. These are the kinds of movies I watched during weekly screenings at summer camp—the ones I remember playing in the background on the main cabin screen of a Delta flight as I adjusted my plastic stethoscope earphones and spread Ken’s dressing on a few dry leaves of salad and think...
Think about the perfectly-timed choreography: the battle over the emergency exit row seat, the subprime dining selection (assuming there is still choice by the time they get to you), the Twitter flight status updates, the arrival dinner, the planned drinks date, and the conference or company or checking account that is paying for the jet-setting. Now insert a volcanic eruption somewhere—say, Iceland—and rethink all of the above...