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...When in doubt, any action film cranks down the action. Here, the bad guys swing their armaments in slo-mo, allowing the good guys to stab them in norm-mo. In one inspired sequence, the action stops as it traces the flight of an arrow, slicing it into separate panels on the screen - Zeno's Arrow Paradox, in a fanboy movie...
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...
...sales of $28.2 billion, and $1.62 billion for the first three-quarters of the current one, an increase of 31%. Those results have been built on regained passenger confidence, the allure of Paris as an international hub and an increasingly rare commitment to high-quality, free in-flight service, which have boosted ticket sales enough to lift Air France--KLM to the top of Europe's airlines, with a 25% market share. And it might make a run at ailing Alitalia, whose fractious workforce resembles that of Air France in its dark days...
...airline was back to its bad old tricks. A strike on the eve of the 1998 World Cup, to which France played host, cost the company $160 million. But the publicity beating that the unions took finally convinced many employees that they were on a one-way flight to oblivion...
...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...