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...reward for roughing it is the best wake-up call in Scotland: in the pristine winter air, from some of Britain's highest ground, there are panoramic views stretching 150 kilometers or more. The next snowy trek takes place March 12-14 and is priced at $508, including airport or train-station transfer and lodge accommodation when you're not snug in your snow hole...
...most desperate areas while everyone learned the shortcuts. In many places, the roads that were bad to begin with are gone now and the ports swallowed whole. With bulldozers scarce, elephants have been enlisted to help clear debris. When pilots try to fly into a small airport, they find that the maps are suddenly wrong because the landscape has been rubbed away. Precious hours were lost when the lone airstrip in Banda Aceh was closed after a 737 hit a water buffalo while trying to land. "We need to make small, damaged airstrips some of the busiest airports...
...sailors and pilots are trying as best they can to coordinate with private groups to set up a smooth supply line. A host of aid organizations flies in supplies on U.S. C130 cargo planes to the tiny runway of the airport at Banda Aceh. Once unloaded, the planes must take off immediately to clear space for the next plane. The Seahawks, meanwhile, are landing on a converted football field a few hundred yards away, and the pilots are managing the transfer of supplies from the C130s to the helicopters. "It was like the Wild West down there when we first...
Stranded in the Atlanta airport for an excruciating eight hours on my way home for winter break, I felt little holiday cheer. The airline employees were hardly sympathetic to passenger cries for compensation, compassion, consolation – anything. This was not the way I wanted to start off the notoriously short holiday break. And just as I was feeling glummer than glum, Grinch-like, Scrooged even, I opened my New York Times to find that schoolchildren can’t celebrate “Christmas” anymore...
...remove all the hassle from flying? Lufthansa is trying. On Dec.1, the Frankfurt-based carrier opened the world's first exclusive terminal for first-class and high-mileage travelers. Lufthansa's ?lite fliers are met at the entrance of a sleek gray sandstone-and-glass terminal in Frankfurt Airport by a personal assistant who handles all of air travel's mundane tasks?from bag check-in to seat assignments. These pampered passengers?only about 350 daily?then wait in an opulent lounge with overstuffed Italian leather chairs, a linen-tablecloth restaurant, offices and a cigar room with a selection...