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...AVIATION 8 Minutes added to a Northwest Airlines transatlantic flight by flying 10 m.p.h. (16 km/h) slower, saving 162 gal. (613 L) of fuel during the flight $42 million Projected savings in fuel costs that Southwest Airlines expects this year by reducing speeds, adding 1 to 3 min. to its flights...
...million Projected savings in fuel costs that Southwest Airlines expects this year by reducing speeds, adding 1 to 3 min. to its flights...
...sits inside his cage, next to bouquets and his favorite bamboo shoots. Some visitors wept; others prayed and wrote notes to his memory. In 1992, Ling Ling was part of a bilateral trade agreement of sorts: the Chinese gave Tokyo a giant black-and-white panda - native to its southwest - in exchange for a panda the Japanese had bred in captivity. China has since stopped giving pandas away as part of its diplomatic policy and has also suspended its lucrative "loans" of the animals to zoos around the world because of the species' increasing endangered status. (Most recently, a pair...
...York wino, all right!”Even environmentalism fails to escape Handey’s pen. “Reintroducing Me to My Habitat” is a tongue-in-cheek plea to environmentalists to return the speaker to “the desert Southwest where I used to roam wild and free” because “for several years, I have been largely confined to a small two-bedroom apartment in the Chelsea section of Manhattan.” Oh, one feels so terrible for poor Jack—what an awful fate to be stuck...
...introduce itself to American flyers with ultra-low fares, which its competitors are scrambling to match after losing a two-year regulatory battle to keep Virgin America out of the U.S. The airline will raise prices eventually, says Rick Seaney, CEO of travel website FareCompare.com just as JetBlue and Southwest did. But Virgin, he predicts, "will try to be different" and hope customers value the services enough...