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...sodas and instant noodles for sale, he plunks down 80? for a can of Milo chocolate drink. Fernandes then spends much of the two-hour journey chatting and shaking hands with each of the 140 passengers on the flight. After the plane touches down, he stands on the tarmac in his trademark red baseball cap, waves goodbye to the departing passengers and helps a team of baggage handlers unload suitcases from the cargo hold...
...targets included CIA and FBI headquarters, unidentified nuclear-power plants and the tallest buildings in California and Washington State. Mohammed hoped to pilot the 10th plane himself and land it after killing all the adult male passengers. He then planned to make a fiery, anti-American speech on the tarmac and release all the women and children...
...plans to spend up to 314.5 million to convert an old cargo facility into a spartan self-service terminal. Passengers will collect their tickets from automated booths and, after clearing security, tag their own bags and hoist them onto conveyor belts. Then it's time to hoof onto the tarmac. Says Philippe Roy of Geneva's International Airport: "If it rains, well, it rains." It's all part of the ruthless effort to spend less. "Airport-related costs represent about 25% of our yearly operational costs," explains Elodie Gythiel, easyJet spokeswoman in France. "If we can lower these, fares should...
...only way to prove the point is to keep the jets on the tarmac and see what happens. That's exactly what occurred in 2001, between Sept. 11 and 14, when U.S. air travel was shut down following the terrorist attacks. During that period, the swing between daytime highs and nighttime lows sometimes measured more than twice as much as usual, perhaps owing to a reduction in cirrus clouds that allowed collected solar heat to radiate away. New and larger passenger planes might exacerbate the problem, but it is the frequency of flights that matters most. One way to tackle...
...class product (new airplanes, leather seats and live TVs on board), JetBlue challenged the skeptical perception of new airlines. But Neeleman, 43, also changed the reality. His obsession with employee happiness and customer service (when the blackout in August 2003 shut down most airlines, Neeleman drove out to the tarmac to beg for fuel) has set JetBlue apart from the rest of the industry. His motto: "Bring humanity back to flying." The legacy airlines, which haven't made a dime since 2001, can't beat JetBlue, so they have started their own look-alike versions of it. But none...