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LITTLE THINGS Cathay Pacific has 51-cm-wide seats, Southwest Airlines has 45 cm and Singapore Airlines 50 cm. Who knew? This online guide does?and it combines factoids with entertaining travelogues and helpful tips thrown in for good measure.
ALTITUDE ADJUSTMENT You don't have to strap on hiking boots to get up close and personal with the mountains. Departing from Kathmandu, many local airlines offer early morning mountain flybys along the Himalayan ridge. Buddha Air sends out two 16-seaters every morning, weather permitting. Each passenger sits beside...
Gerchick estimates that the industry might lose up to $9 billion this year--more than four times what it lost in 1991. No wonder that most major carriers are seeking bankruptcy experts, including American Airlines, which has hired lawyers, industry sources say.
SENTENCED. Richard Reid, 29, would-be shoe bomber and self-proclaimed al-Qaeda member; to life in prison, for attempting to blow up an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001; in Boston. He pleaded guilty to the charges last year and at his sentencing shouted at...
"I cussed at a lady... My daughter always said I had a potty mouth." COURTNEY LOVE, rock star turned actress, after being arrested for abusive behavior on a Virgin Airlines flight to London that had been at the invitation of founder Richard Branson