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THE 10 BEST MOVIES ABOUT AIR TRAVEL* We’ve all seen movies on a plane. But what are the most memorable movies about airplanes and airports? -- Click here to read the entire article HEATHROW TERMINAL 5: SHAMBOLIC NO MORE LONDON – It is cavernous enough to hold 50 soccer fields – sorry, football pitches – cost some $8 billion to build and is designed to handle 30 million passengers a year. And it caused appropriately colossal problems for travelers when it opened for business on March 27, 2008 – and thus also for British Airways, the sole airline tenant and great champion of the building. -- Click here to read the entire article SINGAPORE AIR's WINE CELLAR IN THE SKY SINGAPORE - Singapore Air has a three-member panel of internationally known wine experts that meets twice a year to taste wines and make recommendations to the airline’s purchasing agents. Airline executives have the final word, but they listen closely when the wine consultants speak, in keeping with Singapore Air’s long-standing reputation for pouring fine wines, especially on long-haul, trans-oceanic flights. -- Click here to read the entire article WI-FI IN THE SKY: SOON, HONEST The long wait for wi-fi service on airliners – which has inched forward in fits and starts – will soon be over. I know, this has been said before, going back to mid-decade, when Connexion by Boeing, the first ‘Net in the sky service, launched on a few carriers, then flopped because it cost too much - up to $30 per flight. But 2009 will see more wi-fi in the sky, and in 2010 it may finally become commonplace. -- Click here to read the entire article AVIATION’S FLIGHT PLAN FOR 2009 I attended the International Air Transport Association’s annual global media day in Geneva in December, where the IATA’s numbers-crunchers and soothsayers previewed the year ahead – with interesting ramifications for those millions who ping around the planet in planes. -- Click here to read the entire article VIRGIN AMERICA: The Sky’s the Limit (Almost) on Fledgling Airline SAN FRANCISCO, California – It’s not quite true that Virgin America, as its name suggests, is utterly inexperienced; the start-up airline has been flying a limited schedule from its hub at San Francisco International Airport since late last summer. When the airline took off, I interviewed its founding CEO Fred Reid and inspirational co-owner, British billionaire Richard Branson, but I hadn’t actually flown with the new carrier. I rectified that recently by taking a Virgin America flight from Los Angeles International Airport to SFO. |