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"It Never Is" from Row 22, Seats A&B

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After being stranded in Chicago O’Hare for 7 hours, I was glad to find some consolation from a Row 22, Seats A&B two-part story by Frederick Waterman in United’s Hemispheres in-flight magazine. Perhaps the most comforting part about departing to Atlanta at 5am was that the fictional characters in the story were also on a dawn flight from Las Vegas, after a long night out.

Here’s an excerpt from It Never Is - a story about a salesman and a priest sitting in row 22, trading tales of cards, faith, bargains, and women…

Peachtree DeKalb Airport (KPDK)

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Peachtree DeKalb Airport (KPDK) is a general aviation airport in DeKalb County, GA that handles a number of FBOs and is home to flight school's such as American Air, Atlanta Flyers, and DeKalb Flight School. Under the supervision of JR Richardson at American Air Flight School, I got a glimpse of the process of establishing a career in professional piloting. As an assistant to the main flight dispatcher at AAFT, I saw the daily operations of a very non-typical flight school that handles serious prospective pilots.

US Airways charging for all drinks and snacks

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You'd think that you've heard it all when airlines started charging $50 for checking in a second bag. But how does paying for water sound?

NY-LON to Metrotwin

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BA recently re-launched "metrotwin.com"
Metrotwin, as the webmasters describe it, is a blogging site targetted at the New York to London flyers, hence it's former and disputed name NY-LON. NY-LON conflicted with Nylon Magazine's digital counterpart. Now metrotwin is trying to live up to its mission of providing one space for two cities . New users are accepted after invites only, but you may also invite yourself. I guess it's just metrotwin's way of making sure that all users have registered emails.

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