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...financial constraints. These financial constraints also reduce the quality of the air-travel experience; news stories abound showing increased traveler dissatisfaction with companies squeezing fewer amenities and more seats onto every flight. Of course, it's hard to blame airlines for cutting amenities when the real price of jet fuel tripled from 2000 to 2008. Together with the recession's effects, these factors contributed to 3.7% fewer domestic and international air passengers on U.S. airlines in 2008 than 2007. This was the first annual decrease since 2002 and is continuing into...
...Japanese to use the bathroom before boarding any of its 38 domestic flights or four international flights between Tokyo and Singapore. The request is part of the airline's "ecological flight" program, now in its fourth year, to reduce its carbon footprint by lightening planes' loads and reducing fuel consumption. Through the month of October, ANA aims to reduce wgat it carries into the atmosphere by as much as 4.2 tons by asking passengers to pack - and board - lighter. (See 10 big recession surprises...
...Joined the army in 1990, serving as head of the fuel-supplies unit before taking control of the government...
...President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is largely a calculated affront to Washington - his version of Cuba's Cold War partnership with the Soviet Union. It's little coincidence that Sanz made his announcement the same day the U.S. and its allies called Iran on the existence of a secret nuclear-fuel plant near the Iranian city of Qum. The U.S. and the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) fear that Iran is on the verge of bolting the global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and developing not just nuclear energy but a nuclear weapon, a charge Tehran denies. Venezuela's ties...
...urgent need of nuclear power: Venezuela has the western hemisphere's largest crude reserves, and 75% of its electricity is hydro-generated. It abandoned its one test nuclear reactor 15 years ago. Still, Chávez says the country needs alternatives, and has struck a deal to receive nuclear-fuel-technology aid from Russia, Venezuela's top arms supplier. "We're not going to make an atomic bomb," Chávez said after announcing the Russia agreement, "so don't bother us the way you're bothering Iran...