Word: airporter
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...Transfer. Short on time before your flight? You can now make it to Newark or JFK airport from Manhattan in just 8 minutes for $99 on US Helicopter. You may also clear security and, if you're booked on Delta or Continental, check in your bags before choppering over all those suckers stuck in tunnel traffic. The dual-engine Sikorsky S-76B helicopters fly daily from two locations in Manhattan between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m. Book through May 14 for travel through Aug 31 (except holidays). Downtown: Manhattan Heliport, 6 East River Piers; Midtown: Atlantic Metroport, 510 East 34th...
...Taiwan, and Spain have invested heavily in relatively efficient, fast, and safe high-speed trains that connect major metropolitan areas. Even China, the world’s largest developing economy, is making strides in this area—one can now take a high-speed bullet train from Pudong airport to downtown Shanghai in less than 20 minutes...
...never realized how hard it can be to catch the criminals. I just assumed that airport authorities would open a container and go, "Yep, that's tiger." But then you talk about bear gall bladders being ground into medicine...
...protest leader whose followers commandeered Bangkok's international airport for eight days last December was shot early Friday morning in Bangkok in an apparent assassination attempt, shattering hopes for calm and political reconciliation following the dispersal of violent anti-government demonstrations earlier this week that paralyzed the Thai capital, brought the army on to the streets, and forced the cancellation of a summit of regional leaders...
...During the 1990s, the world repeatedly looked on in shock at acts of French rebellion, including the occupation of airport runways by striking Air France workers to stop flights for days, and the paralysis of French highways by protesting truck drivers. Similar dismay resounded abroad at images of French farmers, angered by the import of cheaper goods, capturing trucks from the U.K., Spain, and other European Union countries and dumping or burning their cargo - which often included live animals...