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...self-respecting media company, owns or leases aircraft to get its own VIPs around. They're not going to let Miley Cyrus slum it on Southwest. The privileged would include Bob Iger, Disney's CEO. The company spent more than $65,000 in 2007 on Iger's personal travel aboard corporate aircraft, and it requires him to fly corporate when he's on business. Disney extends the private-jet perk to other top officers as well as directors attending meetings and other company events. Nice. Yes, Iger is having a way better year than the Detroit Three - would you rather...
...issue here is that most of the Fortune 500 boards require the boss to fly in the corporate jet. And why not? What's the point of achieving the big corner office, knifing all those people on your way to the top, if you don't have the ultimate travel ticket? You might as well stop at divisional vice president. That should be no less true for the Detroit Three. Ford boss Alan Mulally left an aircraft company, Boeing, to take the top job at the auto company - the man is used to big jets...
...have proof that they are attending the inauguration should be eligible for make-up exams on the Sunday before the inauguration. It will be circulated to different administrators. “Through our efforts, we hope to convince the administration and professors to offer students wishing to either travel to Washington, D.C. for the event or watch this historic presidential inauguration live the option for a make-up examination,” Shah said last week in an e-mailed statement. “We do not want to reschedule exams for entire classes.” Professors...
...even when you don't travel, you can still keep that vacation glow alive. Jackson West, a San Francisco-based blogger, says that when his New York City girlfriend comes to visit, "I love showing her around San Francisco - it feels more like an extended weekend date, or even a trip. We both make a special effort to do interesting things that we probably wouldn't if we'd started seeing each other in the same city...
...Thanksgiving morning, after the turkeys are safely in the oven but before the green bean casserole preparations begin, Santa Claus will travel 2.5 miles down the streets of Manhattan - from 77th Street to Macy's department store at 34th Street - riding high atop his first new sleigh in over 40 years as the key figure in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade...