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Sunan Airport on the outskirts of North Korea's capital city, Pyongyang, is one of the world's bleaker transportation hubs, a collection of featureless concrete buildings distinguished only by a giant portrait of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il gazing beatifically over shabby tarmac. Though unpicturesque, Sunan has been providing U.S. spy satellites with plenty of photo opportunities of late. On at least six occasions between April and early July, satellites spotted Iranian IL-76 cargo planes being loaded with wooden crates at Sunan. The frequency of the flights was unusual?normally no more than two flights a year...
...from Manhattan and forbids big airline jets. You can arrive just 20 minutes before your flight. Pull up to the "terminal" (a tidy, one-story brick building), pause for a beverage in the lounge with about a dozen other passengers, speed through security and stroll 25 feet across the tarmac to a luxuriously appointed Embraer business jet. Slide into one of the 16 spacious leather seats (there are no middle seats) and dig into a gourmet meal. Then land at another convenient, smaller airport: Chicago's Midway. The fare: $1,500 round trip, about the same last-minute fare...
...Traffic moves faster on the information highway, and people are using the Web to help reduce congestion on the tarmac too. At www.autobahn.nrw.de, drivers in North-Rhine Westphalia can see a real-time simulation of traffic conditions on its 2,250 km of motorway. The man behind the site, Michael Schreckenberg of Duisburg-Essen University, is now at work on the world's largest traffic-information system, using sensor-gathered data to channel travel advice to TV, radio and motorway screens. If you still can't face the rush hour, try staying home like the 2% of Europeans...
...sooner will pampered feet touch tarmac in each of the six itinerary cities?Agra, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Jaisalmer and Bikaner?than they will be whisked away by limousine complete with a liveried chauffeur and a guide. Turbaned hosts will welcome guests to their former-palace hotels, where, over traditionally themed dinners, they will be entertained by parading elephants, dancing girls and cross-legged musicians. "We're offering tourists the chance to experience the life of royalty," explains Srivastava. At a cost of $3,000 per person, however, you might prefer to remain a subject. For more information on the regal...
...might think, after seeing the barrage of bad news about the major airlines, that the entire industry is going to be stuck on the tarmac by Thanksgiving. But far from all the chatter about bankruptcies and cutbacks, a few enterprising carriers are quietly soaring. Discount pioneer Southwest is readying its first transcontinental flights, from Baltimore, Md., to Los Angeles, starting this fall, while New York City-based upstart JetBlue is adding more flights on the West Coast and in Florida. These and other discount carriers today account for 20% of domestic air travel, up from...