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At least you can get to those security lines faster. As electronic check-in spreads to more airports, the wait time at check-in counters is shrinking. And the process may get even easier. Las Vegas' McCarran Airport is about to unveil kiosks that issue boarding passes for multiple airlines...
Waiting is big in asia at the moment. At poolside lounges, bartenders languidly polish the glasses, ready to mix up a pitcher of Rob Roys if the tourists ever return. At travel agencies and airlines, staff yawn behind idle PCs one week and are ordered to take unpaid leave the...
Sandie Lee, a Hong Kong travel agent, has spotted the same trend. "Customers tell me their companies don't want them to go anywhere," she laments, "just in case they bring some bug back." But she is seeing the odd booking "for the end of June, to places like Singapore...
One job title defying the trend is CEO: pay for chief executives rose 15% in 2002, according to Equilar, a firm that studies CEO compensation. That amounts to about 200 times the pay of the average worker, up from 56 times in 1989, according to the Journal of Economic Issues...
For a recent monthlong visit to New York City, Ali Dickson drove from L.A. because the airlines deemed it too cold to allow her German shepherd, Summer, to fly in the cargo bay. She stayed nearly exclusively at Loews hotels, which offer doggie room service, Loews Loves Pets bowls and...