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If you think you've heard every reason to get a wi-fi--equipped laptop, here's a new one: live broadband Internet access on airplanes. This April, Lufthansa will begin to offer the wireless broadband service Connexion by Boeing on certain transatlantic flights. Other airlines are quickly moving to...
to be a disaster for consumers, and for low-fare air travel all over Europe." Few agreed - no-frills airlines Air Polonia and France's Axis Airways even inked deals to begin using the Belgian hub - but no one thinks the war is over. "All Ryanair's deals with government...
"The cockpit is not answering their phone. There's somebody stabbed in business class, and we can't breathe." BETTY ONG, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, in a tape heard last week by a 9/11 commission
"There's somebody stabbed in business class and we can't breathe. Somebody's got Mace or something ... I think we're getting hijacked." Betty Ong, flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, in an audiotape heard last week by the 9/11 Commission
Yet the U.S. is determined to get better information on who is boarding planes. "Our biggest problem is simply one of getting more information earlier on foreign airlines' passenger lists, with identifying information," Asa Hutchinson, Under Secretary of Homeland Security, tells TIME. Too often, he says, "we get the final...