Sep 23, 2008

Good news for travelers in the USA


American Airlines, under fire for poor customer-satisfaction ratings, said Monday it will add check-in and boarding services for top customers including those traveling in first- or business-class.

American, the nation's largest carrier, said it will give priority check-in and, at several large airports, priority security screening to top customers. Beginning Sept. 30, it will also offer one boarding lane at gates just for priority customers.

The benefits, called PriorityAAccess, will be offered to customers in first- and business-class, those paying full-fare for coach seats and top members of its AAdvantage frequent-flier and oneworld alliance programs.

Improving your relationship...

When you take a look back in an attempt to see which the most important things in our lives are, the truth is that relationships with other people often come to our minds, right? Well, especially those with the person that we love and who we have probably married…

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Remembering old England...


When I was a kid in the 1970s, my family visited our friends the Stewarts a couple of years in a row at their house on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. The lake was paradise for a young boy — my days were filled with swimming, sailing and trips to the ice cream shop. My dad's most enduring memory of those trips is not nearly as idyllic. He was standing in the Stewarts' sailboat one summer when the boom came loose and smacked him in the face, breaking his nose. The silver lining: At least when we got home, the doctor didn't have to break his nose again — it set straight on its own.

Thirty years later, my dad, also named Tom, and I are revisiting some of our favorite spots from those summers, including Lake Winnipesaukee — although we definitely won't be doing any sailing this time around. After flying into Portland, Maine, from our respective homes, we drive south to Portsmouth and grab a bite to eat at Gilley's PM Lunch, a food stand from the 1940s. Despite the fact that the rusted truck at the front end looks like it's seen better days, the clam chowder, burgers, and extra-crispy French fries are excellent.

Do you want to know more about your heart?

Just as any other traveler, I love to see how the medicine is embedded in the societies to where I go and which are the methods they use, keeping this in mind, I must say that I think that USA is probably the country where this kind of information related to medicine and diseases is more widely spread…

As a matter of fact, if you are a student who wants to know more about heart anatomy or if you are just simply curious about it and all the diseases and heart conditions, then you would definitely benefit with a visit to the website above where doctors explain anatomy to you, by using videos, with all the detail needed to allow you to get the knowledge needed in what relates to medicine and mainly to the heart anatomy.

Some interesting information about jet planes...


A United Express flight had to brake and swerve at 140 mph to avoid by about 10 feet a small plane on the same Pennsylvania runway, airport and federal officials said Monday.

The flight crew of Chicago-bound Flight 7138 spotted the Cessna four-seat propeller plane just ahead of it and aborted takeoff Friday night at Lehigh Valley International Airport, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

Officials said the Cessna had just landed on the same runway but missed its exit.

"It was very fortunate that they were as prepared for this incident as they ended up being," said Larry Krautter, the airport's deputy executive director. "Their reaction was extraordinary. The airmanship involved was absolutely extraordinary. They are to be congratulated for how well they handled it."

No injuries were reported among the 60 United passengers or to those aboard the Cessna. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said he didn't know the Cessna pilot's name or how many people were on the smaller plane.

The United plane did not appear to sustain any damage from the aborted takeoff and taxied back to the airport under its own power, Knudson said. The flight was rescheduled for Saturday morning.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said that a trainee in the airport's control tower mistakenly thought the Cessna had left the runway and cleared the United Express flight for takeoff.

The union, which has complained that the Federal Aviation Administration has too many trainees at air traffic control facilities, said in a statement that 11 of the 31 controllers at the Lehigh Valley airport are trainees.

"This was a very serious incident that points out all of the problems with the ramifications of the FAA's understaffing issues nationwide and our concerns about allowing newly and partially certified controllers to work on their own," NATCA President Patrick Forrey said in a statement.

The United plane was operated by Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group Inc., a major commuter carrier that flies as Delta Connection, US Airways Express and United Express under agreements with Delta Air Lines Inc., US Airways Group Inc. and UAL Corp.'s United Airlines.

United Airlines spokesman Jeff Kovick said the airline is cooperating with federal authorities.