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...heard about crazy airlines. Like those that keep you on a plane for eight hours - on the ground. Or others that charge seemingly insane prices for 500-mile puddle-jumps. And almost every carrier continues to tell passengers the plane will take off on time - we all know how sane that is. But no airline, its seems, is as loony as JetBlue Airways...
...Kennedy Airport, which most citizens in Manhattan think of as about as close as Greenland. Then they decided to use Airbus A320 airplanes for their airline - another odd move, given that the industry thought Airbus planes were too expensive and burned too much fuel for a reasonably-priced carrier to make money. Then JetBlue became the first - and only - U.S. airline to give you your own TV set in coach (really, a screen in the seatback in front of you, but with 24 channels of real live satellite TV) and charge you nothing for the privilege of being an airborne...
...downtown Tokyo bar is set up like a subway car so chikan (molesters) who just can't get enough on their way to work can goose passing waitresses?segregated travel is in big demand. Single-sex buses, separate cars on trains, and females-only neighboring seats on domestic carrier Skymark Airlines are on offer. Besides unwanted advances, says a Skymark spokeswoman, "some women feel more at ease asking their neighbor to stand up to go to the bathroom if she's female...
...today's Japanese, Pearl Harbor recalls not the surprise attack of a half-century ago but the accidental sinking of a Japanese fishing boat by a U.S. Navy submarine earlier this year. Japanese TV coverage of the film's U.S. premiere focused on the proximity of the Navy carrier on which the celebrations were held to the spot where the Ehime Maru was sunk. "I can't imagine why they had to hold it there, and so soon after the incident," says Masami Inoue, a lawyer representing families of victims who drowned in the accident. "It is unthinkably callous...
When you've had enough, it's simple to exit. Fly with national carrier Biman from Cox's Bazar to Dhaka ($35) and home from there. It's not a holiday in hell. And anyway, heaven was never this interesting...