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...sort of connected a community together,” he recalls, “which felt really good because everyone was new to New York City.” McCoy and his JetBlue co-representative, Taylor M. Owings ’08, procured a donation of travel vouchers to both Comedy for a Cause and the South Asian Men’s and Women’s Collectives, who eventually used the vouchers to raise money for charity.And even Manglani maintains that his experience promoting Kiehl’s was positive. “I’m happy...
...does BPL work? The data signals that travel between the computer and outer cyberspace basically hitch a ride across the city's network of power lines. There's no interference because electrical current and digital 1s and 0s run at different frequencies. Manassas uses a fiber-optic network to carry data from its central Internet servers to the medium-voltage lines that run underground or overhead along residential streets. Special hardware clamped to every transformer helps the Internet signal jump to the low-voltage lines that disappear inside individual homes...
...29--yes, you read that right--seats have often been hard to find. Fernandes expects to fly 4 million passengers this year, twice as many as in 2003. His success heralds a revolution in the airline industry in Asia. Although Americans and Europeans have benefited from low-cost air travel for years, tight regulation, powerful national-flag carriers and a dearth of airports have kept budget airlines at bay in Asia. But finally the region's long-suffering travelers are able to join in. Five years ago, Asia had only one low-cost airline; today there are 13 either already...
...Kuala Lumpur, could never before afford to fly to Bangkok to see her family and instead made an excruciating 24-hour pilgrimage by bus and train. But with a one-way ticket on AirAsia costing only $26, she took wing in July for the first time. "I will travel much more with AirAsia," she says. Indeed, about half the travelers on Asia's budget airlines are first-time flyers like Boonlerd...
...minutes--about half that of the major airlines. His pilots are trained to land at a farther point on the runway and at a slower speed to conserve fuel and reduce wear and tear on tires. Half of AirAsia's tickets are sold over the Internet, eliminating travel-agent fees. Passengers pay for their food and drinks. When a professional aviation-construction outfit demanded $20 million to build a hangar at Kuala Lumpur's airport, Fernandes instead asked the small contractor who had built his home to do it for $500,000. "There is a lot of excess...