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...before Congress nudges Northwest to give you a full can of soda on your next flight (oh, and also give you a dirt-cheap fare for that trip to Fiji), we must ask a much more fundamental question. Do Americans have a "right" to good service on airlines, or even a right to air travel...
...have experienced this feeling on any number of occasions. Returning from a trip on Sunday, even, Northwest Airlines refused to issue a boarding pass for one of my blockmates who I was traveling with, even though we had reconfirmed our tickets and requested seat assignments days before the actual flight. We had done everything right and followed all the rules, so how could they prevent one of us from flying...
...ordeal began as she, her son Andrew, 5, and her husband Xue Donghua approached the Northwest Airlines counter at Beijing airport on Feb. 11 to return from a three-week vacation. Suddenly, some 15 plainclothes security agents appeared and separated the family. "We didn't even have a chance to look at each other," says Xue. The agents blindfolded Xue and drove him to a house where they interrogated him for 26 days. On March 8 they took him to Andrew, who, because of the abrupt and prolonged break, did not recognize him at first. "He was looking...
...pastor and some of those followers have been convicted before of similar charges. Even now, out on bail and awaiting trial, Allen, 68, vows to keep encouraging corporal punishment, which he believes Scripture condones. His nondenominational church is located in a mostly African-American neighborhood of northwest Atlanta, where the churches outnumber the stoplights. "We can't sway from the Bible because we're in trouble with the state," Allen told TIME on Friday, his followers standing around him intoning "Mmm-hmm." He says the country's notorious school shootings prove the need for discipline. And he points out that...
...That's bad news for the brass at the major airlines, many of which face the looming threat of strikes as the busy summer travel season draws near. American, Delta, TWA and Northwest are all embroiled in serious labor disputes, and, as Gritta points out, a study like this one will only add fuel to labor's fire. "I suspect these new numbers will really bring the situation home to management: We've got Congress pushing controls and we've got the public ticked off. If we push the unions, things could blow up," Gritta says...