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"There was a 'deliberate attempt to destroy the aircraft'..."
"... Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Thursday about the Germanwings crash." The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight “accelerate…
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"You flew? Aren't you going to blog the experience? Did you have to go thru Security? Did you take your shoes off? They search your laptop and purse/wallet."
Asks Nice in the comments to last night's "Hello From New York City." 1. I finally had a flight experience in which I was not chosen to…
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A vision of more wondrously beautiful air travel... the windowless passenger compartment.
Fabulous... or hellish? To me, it's hellish.
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"For the love of Earth, stop traveling."
An opinion piece in The Washington Post by Jack Miles ("a contributor to the University of California’s 'Bending the Curve' report on c…
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"It is rare for Trump to express regret or admit mistakes. But he said his brother’s short, tragic life scarred him like no other event..."
"... and he said he remains haunted by watching Fred Jr.’s handsome features fade.... Freddy, as everyone called him, was the firstborn son, so …
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"A letter found in a waste bin in Andreas Lubitz's apartment indicated he 'was declared by a medical doctor unfit to work'..."
"... Dusseldorf prosecutor Christoph Kumpa said." And here's a NYT op-ed, written by a former pilot titled "Inside a Pilot’s Mind/…
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"The circuitous quick trip, known as a mileage run, is not uncommon this time of year among a subset of frequent travelers looking to attain a certain level of airline status for the coming year...."
"Some frequent travelers have... expressed discomfort about adding long, arguably unnecessary flights in an era where concerns over carbon emiss…
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"Had they seen that same issue in a woman who was not a woman of color, they would not have felt empowered to take me off the plane."
"In pop culture, especially black women with a body like mine, they’re often portrayed as video vixens. So I’ve had to deal with those stereotyp…
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The Knee Defender and the Water Offender.
"On a United flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Denver, a passenger in a middle seat of Row 12 decided he didn’t want the woman in front of him …
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Why Trump won't step back from his remarks about Khizr Khan.
From the full transcript of Trump's intervieww with WaPo's Philip Rucker: RUCKER: I have to ask you because this has been the story now for …
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When you're caught smoking in the airplane lavatory...
... don't wisecrack "I was trying to light my shoes on fire."
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Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says the airline smoking ban already covers electronic cigarettes — which do not smoke or burn in any way.
In a world where it depends on what the meaning of is is , all the government needs to do is interpret . Regulating interstate commerce includes for…
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What books has Hillary Clinton been "losing [her]self in"?
"I finished Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, I devoured mysteries by Louise Penny, Donna Leon, Jacqueline Winspear, Charles Todd... I reread …
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"Israeli airline employees cannot ask women to change seats to spare a man from having to sit next to them, a Jerusalem court ruled on Wednesday..."
"... handing down a groundbreaking decision in a case brought by a woman in her 80s," the NYT reports . Strictly religious Jewish men who r…
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"Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant who alone, and miraculously, survived the midair explosion of a jetliner..."
"... over Czechoslovakia in 1972 after plummeting thousands of feet onto a snowy hill, was reported dead on Saturday in Belgrade. She was 66.&qu…
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"Concealed carry in a gun free zone really makes it safe."
"What are the odds that two people have a gun in a gun free zone? It's the old bombs on an airplane trick. Always pack a bomb in your luggag…
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"Many people who take pride in their green lifestyles—perhaps they bike to work and always carry a travel mug—also happen to be frequent flyers."
"This incongruity grows in part out of cultural factors. A certain type (and I count myself in this category) aspires to be both worldly and soc…
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CBS "Travel Detective" says if your plane didn't hit a mountain or, on landing, "cartwheel and explode into flames," you did not have a terrible trip.
"You didn't have a terrible trip, you had the best trip ever, because you're alive. Why do we really go to travel anyway? To go from poi…
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"Now [Hillary Clinton] can add 'fashion muse' and 'footwear model' to the list [of important titles], thanks to Katy Perry, who designed a pair of pumps in her honor, dubbing them The Hillary."
"And when Clinton got her hands on a pair of the baby pink pumps, she was more than happy to show them off to their best effect for Perry’s Inst…
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