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...with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder carriers have introduced luxury goody bags for their first- and business-class passengers. Virgin Atlantic now gives upper-class customers on all flights a travel-accessories bag by Savile Row tailor Ozwald Boateng, which holds eponymously branded socks and either cuff links, a hand mirror or a key chain. Continental's U.S. transcontinental first-class passengers have received fragrances by Prada and Ghirardelli chocolates. Fliers in United's U.S transcontinental and U.S.-Japan premium classes have been treated to bags containing at least...
Nobody quite knows if North Korea is gearing up to test nuclear weapons, but there's no doubting its arsenal of insults for its nemesis, the United States. Pyongyang blasted George W. Bush in a newspaper editorial last week, calling the U.S. President "a first-class war maniac." A top Chinese Foreign Ministry official said the diplomatic taunts, particularly Bush's April comment calling North Korea's Kim Jong Il a "tyrant," had "destroyed the atmosphere" for productive negotiations. But this war of words has been escalating for years...
...Emirates answer: new first-class interiors. First-class "seats" on its New York--to-Dubai route are fully enclosed suites whose seats turn into beds (with a massage feature), complete with vanity mirrors, 19-in. video screens with 150 selections and in-flight e-mail. There is a personal minibar (only juice, soda and water, but you can order alcohol from the flight attendants on your personal "room service" phone). And if that's not enough, the lighting changes to reflect the time of day, ending with a ceiling display of the Dubai night sky. The food is high quality...
...Emirates answer: new first-class interiors. First-class "seats" on its New York-to-Dubai route are fully enclosed suites whose seats turn into beds (with a massage feature), complete with vanity mirrors, 19-in. video screens with 150 selections and in-flight e-mail. There is a personal minibar (only juice, soda and water, but you can order alcohol from the flight attendants on your personal "room service" phone). And if that's not enough, the lighting changes to reflect the time of day, ending with a ceiling display of the Dubai night sky. The food is high quality...
...companies and the people who are reshaping the global economy. In addition to our story on China's rainmakers, this month's section includes a look at Emirates Airlines, the Dubai-based carrier that has grown into the world's fifth most profitable airline?and is redefining first-class luxury in the air. (Room service? On a plane?) For his first column on investing in Asia, William Green took himself off to Bombay, the heart of India's stock-market boom. "My head was spinning," says Green, of being bombarded with pitches for hedge funds and Indian real estate over...