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Although many airlines are trying to become low-fare carriers, Emirates unabashedly is not. "Passengers' expectations on long-haul flights are different," says Dermot Mannion, an executive at the airline. "The low-fare model will not work on long flights. Passengers want good service, comfort and certainly some food." Emirates is betting instead on full service. The carrier has plenty of well-established rivals. Singapore Airlines, which flies to 94 destinations--among them the recently launched longest nonstop flight ever, from New York City to Singapore--has for years dominated customer-service rankings. Hong Kong--based Cathay Pacific is another...
Nonetheless, planes are running at an impressive 73% capacity, say Emirates' executives. "We have a very good product, and there is no shame in seeking to retain pricing at the highest possible level," says Mannion. Hermann Michel, an Austrian who was recently hired away from Singapore Airlines as a catering manager, jokes about why Emirates takes service so seriously: "What do you talk about when you get off a long flight--how good the fuel...
...That seems a bit blinkered, since Nunn has Claudius (Tom Mannion) announce his marriage to Gertrude (Imogen Stubbs) at a political rally. And, really, who needs the text, or a new production, to see ?Hamlet? as a mirror of modern politics? Long before the war, commentators noted how Bush felt obliged to revenge the bungled attempt on his Presidential father?s life by Saddam Hussein?s agents. Anyone who uses a 21st century glass to refract Denmark in the 12th century as seen by Shakespeare at the beginning of the 17th can easily find political analogies...
...Mannion recounts how farmers, in harsh seasons,would travel down to the rich topsoil of thevalleys and "borrow" the soil, creating fertilepatches in the hills which can still be seentoday...
...Mannion is critical of bars that are trying tocash in on the Irish commercial revival...