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AIRLINES & AIRPORTS
Just Don't Touch the Queen. American Airlines customers traveling to the U.K. before June 30 will earn extra bonus miles. An economy ticket gets you 25,000 bonus miles; if you're up front in first or business class, you get 50,000 bonus miles. Just register here before...
Could there be a worse time to start an airline? OpenSkies lifted off last June, as the global economy was seizing up. Even though airlines got cost relief via collapsing jet-fuel prices, the deepening recession has caused demand for seats to fall faster than supply could be shrunk. The...
But targeting that segment has failed before, notably in London. Indeed, BA and American Airlines used price-cutting and other tactics to help shoot down three business-class-only carriers. Nor will the incumbents in Amsterdam fail to react. KLM and Northwest have already slashed business-class fares.
The irony is both sad and delicious. The Little Nyonya, a Singaporean television serial about a Chinese Peranakan family that concluded in the middle of January, was told entirely in Mandarin, a language whose creeping bid for dominance in Singapore has lately eclipsed Baba Malay - the pidgin Malay at the...