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...flight time and the type of aircraft used. Onboard, guests enjoy personalized catering and business necessities like data ports and satellite phones. Best of all, the entire experience is seamless, with staff helping travelers through immigration and security checks and into a limousine for a drive across the tarmac to the waiting aircraft. If that doesn't bring out your inner rock star, nothing will...
...flight time and the type of aircraft used. Onboard, guests enjoy personalized catering and business necessities like data ports and satellite phones. Best of all, the entire experience is seamless, with staff helping travelers through immigration and security checks and into a limousine for a drive across the tarmac to the waiting aircraft. If that doesn't bring out your inner rock star, nothing will...
...week's EMERGENCY LANDING of JetBlue flight 292, whose front landing gear became twisted just after taking off from Burbank, California, en route to New York. Pilot Scott Burke landed safely in Los Angeles by keeping the damaged nosewheel up as long as possible, before dropping it to the tarmac-sparking flames but nothing worse. "I am so glad we got that guy," said passenger Alexandra Jacobs. "I just want to give him a big wet smooch...
...when it did, he did not immediately show that he sensed its magnitude. On the Monday that Hurricane Katrina landed and the Crescent City began drowning, Bush was joshing with Senator John McCain on the tarmac of an Air Force base in Arizona, posing with a melting birthday cake. Like a scene out of a Michael Moore mockumentary, he was heading into a long-planned Medicare round table at a local country club, joking that he had "spiced up" his entourage by bringing the First Lady, then noting to the audience that he had phoned Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff...
...From tarmac to Cabinet room, the President's performance was uneven at the very least, and associates say that can be explained by several factors. Some are specific to his CEO style, others endemic to second terms, but all of them came together in early September much like Katrina itself. The first was his elongated summer vacation: Bush upped to nearly five weeks his traditional month of working vacation at the Crawford ranch, a vacuum that always alarmed his aides because it gave others an opening for capturing the news agenda. While the staff agonized about whether he should...