Archive for July 21st, 2009

A Manhattan airport in Central Park? Not really

Posted by admin on July 21, 2009

Today’s epic airline prank is brought to you by The Manhattan Airport Foundation, which wants to bulldoze Central Park and put up an airport in its place. Yes, you must be thinking that this is a joke, and yes, you’re right.
Beyond the sheer implausibility of razing Central Park to make way for an airport, let’s [...]

El Al’s new "low cost economy" experiment

Posted by admin on July 21, 2009

Capitalizing on the willingness of travelers to pay more for a (theoretically) better passenger experience, a lot of airlines have added “premium economy” products over the last several years, with Air France, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic and United Airlines among them. And on other end of things, a lot of airlines have also launched (and [...]