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...when jet travel still had about it a faint whiff of glamour, a new European airplane maker decided to call itself Airbus. The name showed remarkable foresight, for four decades later, that is what commercial air travel has become:long-distance journeys via public transport...
...already know that, of course, if you're flying this month, as the six major airlines prepare to reduce flights and seats despite the heightened demand of the "holiday travel" season--a phrase that joins airline food and friendly skies in the pantheon of aviation oxymorons...
...White House recently announced its plan to make commercial air travel more tolerable over the holidays. It will open unused military airspace in an effort to decrease delays and ensure that Santa isn't stuck circling O'Hare come Christmas Eve, in what President George W. Bush called travelers' "season of dread...
...have my own modest proposals to return air travel to its original upright position. Unlike a snack box or headphones or curbside check-in, they won't cost a dime...
Such moments make it difficult to fathom that flying was once a wonderment--a miracle of sorts, to be above the clouds, borne aloft on blind faith and Bernoulli's Principle. And I firmly believe that, if we all pitch in, jet travel can enjoy a second golden...