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Airline Food: The History of In-flight Service

Airline food has come a long way since the days of frozen lettuce and lukewarm tea. This article takes a look at the changing face of in-flight fare - from the dining rooms of the 1930s to the cappuccinos and bowls of pasta of today.

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Discrimination against the obese by airlines

The US government and courts have done a lot to put a stop to discrimination because of race, sex, handicap, and sexual orientation. However, no one is stopping the largest group of people being dicrimated against, the obese. Airlines are being allowed to openly and publically discrimate and publically harass obese people.

3 comments    politics obesity airlines
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FAA Grandstanding Or A Safety Issue MD80 Airplanes Grounded For Inspection

After American Airlines cancelled 500 more flights Tuesday, April 8, for the second time in two weeks, the public is wondering what is going on in the aircraft industry. Which airlines ranked high in the Airline Quality Report for 2008.

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Chicago O'Hare's UFO Sighting

It was all over the national news. Almost a dozen people saw it. A pilot might even have caught digital photographs of it! So why didn't the Federal Aviation Administration investigate?

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PLEASE, Don't Jump To Any Conclusions!

As of this moment as I write, there have been thirteen people murdered and over thirty additional casualties from the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas by Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. One young man, who...

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Guitar Breaking and Customer Service

Times are tough. With an economy comparable to a landfill, consumers are stingy with the money they dole out, and the services they choose. Now more than ever, businesses are forced to compete for that...

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Traveling For Work

To all you owners and managers out there.. Do you know how frustrating it is to go to a convention in a world class beautiful hotel and be completely broke? You see, a girlfriend and fellow "assistant...

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Tales From Newark Airport: Part 1

Truth really is stranger than fiction! My experiences working in the trenches of customer service at Newark Airport. For better or for worse it is something that I did and will never forget.

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Flight 93

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it." - Patrick Henry “Let us never...

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A Day for AIDS and Aviation Disasters

The world celebrates AIDS day on December 1, the day AIDS was officially recognized by medical organizations throughout the world in 1981 and since 1988, the very first World AIDS Day was celebrated, to...

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