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...Landing Zone. You may not have noticed, but U.S. airlines just posted their best on-time arrival ratios (meaning they landed within 15 minutes of when they were scheduled to) in almost two years, according to FlightStats. Virgin America didn't win that Conde Nast Readers' Choice Award for nothing: It topped the list with about 93% of flights arriving on time. The five best U.S. airports for on-time flights: Salt Lake City, Cincinnati, Detroit, Oakland and Minneapolis/St. Paul...
Snack Happy. Virgin America, which recently stole Condé Nast Traveler's Best Domestic Airline title away from six-time winner JetBlue, is introducing new items to their on-demand food menu. After swiping a credit card through the seat-back's touch screen menu, passengers flying coach can order ham-and-Havarti tea sandwiches, chicken Cobb salad wraps or Greek salad for $7 to $9. An expanded cocktail selection, with cosmopolitans, mojitos and margaritas are also on offer for $8. For first-class and select main-cabin passengers, the cocktails and meals are free...
ONLY HALF-JOKINGLY he called himself the "Godfather, the Samurai, the leader, the warrior." That may sound a bit over the top for a publishing executive. But in his world of high-fashion magazines, Steven Florio, longtime CEO of Condé Nast, had a point. Expert at imagining creative ways to win and please advertisers, the charming Florio boosted the company that produces Vogue, Glamour and Vanity Fair to the second largest in the industry during the '90s, when many magazines were flagging. Florio was 58 and died after a heart attack...
...wide-body from Los Angeles. For the first time, the airline is marketing its Atlantic flights (including Chicago-Amsterdam and New York City--Frankfurt, Germany) as heavily as its Pacific ones. And for good reason: last year it was named best airline from the U.S. to Europe by Conde Nast Traveler's Business Travel Survey--the first year that it was in the running. Singapore Air has already won the magazine's coveted designation as best international airline for 14 of the past 15 years...
...there is much more to the fashion world than shows in Bryant Park tents and mentions in Condé Nast magazines—just two of the accomplishments that Lewis Albert and Porter Grey respectively are making. And in the off-7th-avenue culture of New York, Harvard alums are quietly making a few rumbles...