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Why Don't Airlines Award Loyalty Points Based on Dollars Spent Rather Than Miles Flown?

Quora | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Air Travel, Air New Zealand, Jet Blue, Loyalty Programs, Southwest, Quora, Planes, Virgin America, Flying, Flights, Travel News

This question originally appeared on Quora. Michael McGraw-Herdeg, Microsoft PM (Excel Services). Yes, the legacy US airline model of "if you you ...

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Australia Reviews Purchasing Troubled Warplanes

AP | Posted 03.31.2012

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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia is reviewing its timetable for buying 12 of the troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighters between 2015 and 2017 after...

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The Single Most Terrifying Thing I Have Ever Been Through

Gary Lightbody | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Snow Patrol, Planes, Air Travel Fear, Fear of Flying, Flying, Plane Crashes, Flying Fear, UK, UK Music, Gary Lightbody, UK Music News, UK Celebrity, Culture News

I used to be a happy flyer, but all that changed on a flight about six years ago from Auckland, New Zealand to LAX.

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INFOGRAPHIC: Thanksgiving Travel Guide

Posted 01.04.2012

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Our friends at the geek-chic airfare search site Hipmunk have distilled the data and assembled a Thanksgiving infographic that presents some very usef...

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A Plane Built With, Gasp, Passengers In Mind

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Needham | Posted 11.28.2011

Read More: Boeing, Jet Travel, Video, Boeing 787 Dreamliner, Patch Road Trip, Airplanes, Planes, Travel, Airbus A380, Boeing 787, Air Travel, Boeing 747, Airbus, Travel News

EVERETT, Wash. -- Imagine a plane that reduces vibrations from turbulence to the point where the ride is smooth even during landing. A plane with enou...

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GE Surveys Future Of Flight And The World's Most Popular Airports

AOL Travel News | Posted 11.08.2011

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Small Plane Lands On Queens Beach Near Airport

AP | Posted 06.05.2011

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NEW YORK — New York City police say a single-engine plane landed in the surf not far from John F. Kennedy Airport, but all three people aboard a...

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The No-Fly Zone Decision

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama is in a tough spot on the whether or not to push for a no-fly zone over Libya. He is weighing the costs and benefits of the situation, and his reluctance to get involved may turn out, in the long run, to be the correct decision.

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Shh! (Or, Why Your Screaming Baby Should Have You Worried)

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pigovian Tax, Thanksgiving 2010, Negative Externality, Grinch, Funny, Holidays, Crying, Market Failure, Planes, Parenting, Screaming, Parents, Comedy News

You're trapped on a cross-country flight and, in the row behind you, two parents are sitting happily with a 12-month-old baby. The baby is preternaturally silent. This will not last.

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WATCH: Paper Plane Launches Into Space

Posted 05.25.2011

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Here's an impressive feat: a team of British space enthusiasts successfully launched a paper plane from Spain into space, and it returned! Composed...

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What I Learned From the Volcano

Vivian Norris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Amsterdam, Spring Break, Iceland, Solidarity, Birds, Airports, Travel, Mother Nature, No Fly, Life, Ash, Friendship, Nature, Planes, Vacation, Hot Air Ballopns, Train, Volcano, Slow, Healthy Living News

People have not only had to slow down in Europe because of the Icelandic volcano, they have had to full stop and realize they have no control! This is nature. Deal with it.

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Iceland Volcano Ash Shuts Down Europe Air Travel

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland on Friday as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptyin...

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International Aerospace Exhibition PICTURES: PHOTOS Of Incredible Flying Feats

Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 05.25.2011

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The International Aerospace Exhibition, which celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2009, opened June 8 at Berlin's Schoenefeld Airport. Some 200,000...

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Plane Kills Jogger In SC Beach Emergency Landing

AP | RUSS BYNUM and DORIE TURNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Robert Gary Jones was a pharmaceutical salesman on a business trip, looking forward to getting home to celebrate his ...

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Are Solar-Powered Airplanes In Our Future?

GOOD | Future Transportation > Tobin Hack on March 1, 2010 at 5:00 Am PST | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Switzerland, two pioneers are coming closer and closer to a flight around the world powered only by solar energy....

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"Fly By Wire": New Book Suggests That Sully Wasn't So Amazing

The New York Times | DWIGHT GARNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mr. Sullenberger made a good choice to land on the Hudson. But his actual control of Flight 1549, Mr. Langewiesche writes, was "less reflective of unu...

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Air Travel Made Greener: 4 Tips

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

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Though air travel is unavoidable at times, there are a few things responsible travelers can do to make flights greener.

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What the Media and Obama Never Understood About the Public Option

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

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What I'm afraid of is that this bill makes private insurance larger and stronger -- and thus, gets us further away from curing the main problem of our health care system: perverse incentives.

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Southwest Flight 1245 Makes Emergency Landing In Tampa

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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TAMPA, Fla. — An airline spokesman says an indicator light that warned of possible smoke aboard a Southwest Airlines flight forced the pilot to ...

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F.B.I. Fugitive Is Still Licensed To Fly

nytimes.com | MATTHEW L. WALD | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is offering a $50,000 reward for a Seattle man it says is a domestic terrorist. But that has not kept him from kee...

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Solar Powered Plane: Swiss Team Unveils Prototype For Sun-Powered Plane

AP | BRADLEY S. KLAPPER | Posted 05.25.2011

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DUEBENDORF AIRFIELD, Switzerland — It has the wingspan of a Boeing 747 but weighs less than a small car. And it is powered entirely by the sun. ...

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Sex at 13,000 Feet

Lora Somoza | Posted 05.25.2011

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I have the sneaking suspicion that I have forgotten to do something - what could it be - ah, yes, BREATHE! Although, come to think of it, how am I going to do that? I'm plummeting to earth!

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LAX Passengers Trapped On Plane For Nine Hours (VIDEO)

LA Times | Posted 05.25.2011

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via the LA Times Normally, a flight from San Salvador to Los Angeles takes 4 1/2 hours. On Sunday, however, a TACA International Airlines flight to...

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Airborne Internet Might Bring Major Turbulence

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seat 17D is yapping endlessly on an Internet phone call. Seat 16F is flaming Seat 16D with expletive-laden chats. Seat 16E is too busy surfing porn si...

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