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...Southwest The one major airline that is bucking the trend of increasing fees, Southwest still doesn't charge for checked bags (up to two), nonalcoholic drinks, blankets or making a change to your flight. The discount airline has even launched an ad campaign to brag about that fact. Its new slogan: "Fees don't fly with...
...military-appointed committee was set up to investigate allegations of suspected corruption by Thaksin and certain members of his government. After lengthy probes, it has filed four cases with the courts. They allege that while in office, Thaksin influenced the sale of state land to his wife at a discount, gave a preferential Thai government loan to the government of Burma to buy telecoms equipment from his company, changed the laws on telecommunications concessions to increase his firm's profits at the expense of government telecom agencies, and illegally instituted a government lottery scheme using some of the proceeds...
...Alan Joyce, the smart, energetic CEO of Qantas' discount subsidiary Jetstar, who will take over as CEO from Dixon, who is retiring in November, recently suggested that simply cutting costs might not be enough to keep the company viable. Qantas, he said, might have to merge with another airline in the next few years. "With the high fuel prices we have, if that continues, a lot of airlines are not economic if they stand alone," Joyce told reporters. Qantas' "never crashed" reputation will hopefully survive, but there's no certainty its name will...
...want to discount the daring of Petit's feat (or feet). He was working a hell of a way up from the ground, with the winds whistling and the towers themselves swaying as he traversed the space between them. But no matter how high in the sky a wire is, the person walking it is not an artist. He or she is just a daredevil, trying to grab the gawkers' attention. Since you could probably get yourself killed falling from a wire 30 feet off the ground, additional height enhances the spectacle, but aside from the wind gusts, the risk...
...Malone was outbid by a rival in his attempt to acquire the Learning Channel. His response: TCI began dropping the Learning Channel from its local cable systems. The tactic killed his rival's deal, and TCI's 49%- owned Discovery Channel later purchased the Learning Channel at a steep discount. Malone is also known to cook up complex deals that can take cadres of lawyers and accountants a week to disentangle in order to sell and buy back assets. Just last week TCI said it would reacquire Liberty Media and its cable networks, including the Family Channel and Black Entertainment...