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...chartered corporate jets. "People ask me if there will ever be a supersonic business jet," says Bannister. "I tell them, 'You're looking at it,'" pointing to British Airways' first Concorde to be modified, the Alpha Foxtrot. The airline has given each plane's interior a $2.8 million upgrade. Each seat is now 32 in. from the one in front of it, though that is still cramped compared with first-class seats in other aircraft, which come in at 50 in. or more. It will still cost about $9,000 a flight. That will be enough to keep the riffraff...
...sensational Toy Stories) is a hilarious expose of boogeymen and other things-that-go-bump-in-the-night, animated with classic Disney style mixed with the best of Tim Burton. It’s Beauty and the Beast meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a quirky film that features first-class entertainment...
...standard security questions and had valid IDs, one of them a proper-looking Commonwealth of Massachusetts driver's license. The agent wasn't in a rush and laughed to himself that the two brothers were such infrequent flyers they didn't know they could check in at the empty first-class counter. But the two were patient, pleasant, low key. There was really nothing to trigger alarms as the brothers and three other passengers of Arab ethnicity boarded American Airlines Flight 77 for Los Angeles...
...going to do something about it." That's what Tom Burnett told his wife Deena. Burnett was one of 38 passengers and seven crew members aboard hijacked United Airlines Flight 93, and he was not the only person to relay information to a loved one. In first-class seat 4D, public relations executive Mark Bingham used an airplane phone to call his mother. "Mom, this is Mark Bingham," he said, so rattled that he included his last name. "Three guys have taken over the plane, and they say they have a bomb." Back in coach, Jeremy Glick phoned his wife...
Terpilowski has a secret for you. It doesn't improve your chances. "Service personnel have become anesthetized by the obnoxious," he says. And here's something to consider: he manages to get the best tables in restaurants, ocean-view guest rooms and first-class airline seats without redeeming miles for upgrades or getting pushy with a maitre d'. He's not trading professional courtesies either...