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What's happened in recent years is that there's been a huge surge in these budget airlines where for like $50 at times, depending on when you travel, you can go to Prague or Budapest or really all over Europe for cheap prices and you can take a party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Lyall on Why the Brits Are Different | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

Chang, who likes to be called Stanley, had never even flown as a passenger when he saw an ad seeking trainee pilots for Xiamen Airlines. A bit bored by biology and lured by the prospect of a big pay rise, he applied for the job. Eyesight was the strictest test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying Without Wings | 9/4/2008 | See Source »

The price of oil reported in the news is actually the price of oil in the futures market. In this market, traders do not exchange physical barrels of oil, but instead trade contracts which obligate them to exchange oil at a quoted price at a specific date in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Oil Prices Rigged? | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

After the interview, I called a cab to run us back to the airport. "Five or ten minutes," the dispatcher promised, by which she apparently meant, "53 minutes." When the cab finally dropped me outside the American Airlines terminal, it was 5:06 p.m. My flight was at 5:20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Happy Air Travel Tale (For Real) | 8/22/2008 | See Source »

A low-cost subsidiary of SAS Airlines, Spanair has fallen on hard times lately, and it recently announced cutbacks, including that of 100 pilots. Its current economic status will surely raise questions about whether cost-cutting measures contributed to the accident. The airline has stated that the 1993 craft passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Toll Could Rise in Madrid Crash | 8/21/2008 | See Source »

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