Word: airport
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...that the carrier is giving passengers a chance to convey their compliments to the chef face to face. Alaska's executive chef Wolfgang Erbe, in his pleated toque, has been strolling the aisles twice a month soliciting passengers' reactions to his food. Commuting between the 17 West Coast airport kitchens where Alaska's meals are prepared, Erbe says, "We want to promote the image of the airline as a moving dining room." With meals like poached salmon and beef stroganoff -- in coach class, no less -- Alaska Airlines spends $7.80 a customer on food, about $3 more than the average...
...there was nothing predictable about the arrival two days later of several Soviet-built Libyan transport planes at N'Djamena's military airport. The planes had come to pick up about 400 Libyan prisoners released by Deby, some of whom had been jailed since 1982, and to unload "humanitarian supplies," including a Renault luxury sedan, apparently a gift to Deby from Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. Deby defended freeing the Libyans as a move to help maintain good relations with Chad's northern neighbor. However, the prisoner release, along with reports that Libya provided at least 40% of the equipment...
...little-known town in the remote western Amazon has just four dingy guesthouses and 450 phone lines and lies a rugged five-hour drive from the nearest major airport. And yet this week, normally tranquil Xapuri (pop. 6,000) is being invaded by 3,000 visitors from the surrounding territory and around the globe. They have come to witness a long-awaited event: the trial of two men accused of murdering Chico Mendes. In fact, everyone who cares about environmental issues is watching to see whether justice will prevail in the case of the humble rubber tapper whose defense...
Despite justifiable worries about close calls in the sky, the collision of two Northwest airliners at Detroit's Metro Airport last week suggests that airplane passengers face grave danger even on the ground. The accident, in which eight people were killed and 24 injured, raised a life-and-death question: If runways are so foggy that a pilot can miss two turns and wind up in the path of a plane rolling toward takeoff, why is the airport still open...
...takeoffs been permitted? One pilot traveling as a passenger on the 727 insisted that visibility had been less than a quarter-mile. Francis McKelvey, an airport designer and engineering professor at Michigan State, said it is time for aviation officials to ask "whether you should be operating an airport if you can't see all the surfaces on which aircraft are moving...