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...LITTLE THINGS Cathay Pacific has 51-cm-wide seats, Southwest Airlines has 45 cm and Singapore Airlines 50 cm. Who knew? This online guide does?and it combines factoids with entertaining travelogues and helpful tips thrown in for good measure...
...report's author, Mark Gerchick, a former top official at the Department of Transportation and now an independent consultant, notes that during the 1991 Gulf War, airline bookings dropped 8.5%, which helped drive even perennially profitable Southwest Airlines into the red. But the industry entered that conflict in much better shape than it is in now. The 18 months since Sept. 11 have been a wartime economy for the airlines, says Gerchick, and the jolt of another Gulf War would keep more travelers grounded and force high fuel prices even higher...
Weinstein, who recorded his album at Loho studios in New York City, and Berkeley, whose album is also professionally engineered, have now devoted themselves entirely to the singer-songwriter path. They’ve both been chosen to attend South by Southwest, a country music and folk festival in Austin, Texas, that selects talent from a pool of musicians nationwide. Weinstein has plans for a tour, while Berkeley is recording a second album...
...week, 75-year-old Delta Airlines, which is losing money along with most other major airlines, will announce details of its own start-up airline called Song. Other major carriers have tried this tune before: US Airways and United started mini-airlines mainly to compete with low-cost king Southwest Airlines, but neither one is flying today...
...captioned a drawing of a sergeant addressing his bedraggled men: "I need a couple guys what don't owe me no money for a little routine patrol." His war works won Mauldin a Pulitzer Prize in 1945, and the 23-year-old, who'd grown up poor in the Southwest, found himself an uncomfortable celebrity. "If I see a stuffed shirt," he once remarked, "I want to punch it." Mauldin won his second Pulitzer for a cartoon in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1959, after the Soviets imprisoned writer Boris Pasternak; it shows one prisoner in ball and chain...