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...seat, ask the airline whether it gives discounts on tickets for children under 2; many offer up to half off. When flying internationally, parents should check with each airline, since the rules vary greatly. Icelandair and Lufthansa, for example, don't allow the use of safety seats during takeoff and landing, while Alitalia bans them altogether and charges an extra fee for lap riders. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...says for security reasons cannot say exactly where he was sitting, was aware of the group of Middle Eastern men from the beginning of the flight. About 25 minutes after takeoff, a flight attendant discreetly told the FAM that she thought the men were "acting suspiciously" and were congregating near one of the lavatories in the back of the plane. He alerted another marshal on the plane and also told the flight attendant to notify the captain. A short while later, the FAM asked the flight crew member to get physical descriptions of the men and their seat numbers...
...only moments before takeoff when Tony Fernandes, chief executive officer of high-flying budget airline AirAsia, rushes onto a plane destined for the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu. But there's no plum seat waiting for him. Even top managers at no-frills airlines don't get any frills. Fernandes treks through the crowded plane searching for an empty chair, ending up in one of the last rows. When flight attendants appear with a cart of sodas and instant noodles for sale, he plunks down 80? for a can of Milo chocolate drink. Fernandes then spends much...
...Singh is enjoying yet another spell under the spotlight, thanks to his new novel Burial at Sea, a fantasia on an alleged sexual escapade by Nehru. The central character, Jai Bhagwan, "is a takeoff of Nehru," says Singh. Bhagwan, like Nehru, is a Brahman from Kashmir, British-educated, brilliant, agnostic, a follower of Mohandas Gandhi, and with big dreams of modernizing his impoverished country. There's one difference: instead of going into politics, Bhagwan decides to transform India by becoming an industrialist to give his country the economy it deserves. The crux of the novel comes when the middle-aged...
...Because it is a measure of the spell that Disney cast upon my family this week that, after I got my breath back - I felt for a second like I had been whacked again by the takeoff sequence over at Epcot?s ?MISSION: Space? - I had a moment of exquisite clarity. I?m sure it was quite like what overcame Tom Brady, when he suddenly realized that the next thing he had to do in life was get to Disney World. ?Well,? I said to myself, ?I am certainly not going to let George F Steinbrenner, the Terror from Tampa...