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...about 5% more room than on other jets on this route. There's a 8.4 in. (21 cm) video screen with about 3,000 hours of programming, (about as long an overnight flight can feel). Alex Hervet, an A380 design engineer, explained to me that he repositioned the hinge point on the chair back an inch higher so that your knees won't get squeezed when the guy in front of you reclines his seat. Subtle LED lighting throughout the cabin changes with the time of day. But let's not kid ourselves, it's still a coach seat...
...Aircraft analyst Richard L. Aboulafia of Teal Group has called the A380 "the worst product launch decision since New Coke." The A380 was born in a hub-and-spoke world where flights between countries were regulated. Now, airlines are freer to go point-to-point, avoiding the major hubs - and making 800-passenger megajets less necessary. (Emirates, the first to fly the A380 into New York City, quietly withdrew the plane from its JFK flights...
...jetizens aboard the A380 as it made a somewhat wobbly landing, some of whom have come from as far as Australia to be among the first to fly it, the arguments about economics and hub-and-spoke miss the point. The Air France A380 is new, massive, filled with technology and right now the only one flying the Atlantic's most glamorous route. It's a glimpse of better days, when flying was still an adventure, even if it never ceases to be a chore...
...Indian tour operators are famously adaptable. They've offered trips tailored to medical tourism and religious excursions, and leveraged the international success of Danny Boyle's Oscar-winning film with a Slumdog Millionaire tour of Mumbai's shanties. "We have to be innovative or else you reach a saturation point," says Amin, who also runs Mumbai-based tour group Transway International...
...Russian position is technically correct: Iran hasn't formally responded, but for the Western powers, that's the whole point - the proposed deal was negotiated weeks ago with Iranian representatives in Vienna, and Iran's government was asked to endorse it within a couple of days. But the plan faced a firestorm of criticism from across the political spectrum in Tehran, prompting the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to backtrack. The aspect of the plan that most appeals to the West - removing from Iran most of a uranium stockpile that could hypothetically be turned into a weapon, and returning...