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Port Gentil is no ordinary town. That much is clear from the moment you touch down in the small coastal city in the West African nation of Gabon. Next to the airport exit, a gaggle of shrieking, minimally dressed women dance to loud rock on the terrace of a bar called Le Aero Club. "Come fly me!" one shouts down. Instead, I accept a taxi driver's offer of a ride into town - a 10-minute drive that costs $30. We drive past another bar, A Qui La Tour? - which roughly translates as "Whose round is it?" although the driver...
Staff shared a personal story about having to spend a night in Logan airport to catch a 6 a.m. flight because the subway to the airport did not provide service early in the morning and financial concerns prevented him from taking a taxi by himself...
...service provided by GOOSE Networks, a Seattle-based technology company, will match up students carpooling to and from Logan International Airport...
...France's other good fortune is to have Paris as a hub. Charles de Gaulle Airport is one of the few in Europe that has the ability to expand traffic. This summer, for instance, it is increasing capacity 5.4%, even adding a Seattle-Paris nonstop flight. Analyst Derocles says C.D.G., the main airport serving Paris, has increased traffic 18%--or by 9 million passengers--since 2004. "London and Frankfurt don't have that advantage," he says, "and it has let Air France--KLM develop sales by 7% to 8% per year...
...fitting that each segment of Comedy Central's The Axis of Evil Comedy Special (March 10), the first TV stand-up show with all Middle Eastern--American comics, begins with each comedian walking onstage through a metal detector. The 9/11 attacks changed the airport from a place of comical annoyance to a place of suspicion and dread. "Whenever I get on a plane, I always know who the air marshal is," says Axis' Ahmed Ahmed. "He's the guy holding the PEOPLE magazine upside down, staring right...