Overpaid Airline Execs? While high-flying executives from the nation's
top airlines get big compensation, workers and retirees are seeing cuts.
I do not think the public at large is aware of the inequity   more...between the
remuneration of the damned big shots vs the cuts endured by the
employees who keep NW running. Disgraceful.

BILL MOYERS: Gordon Gekko's words were ringing in my ears the
other day as Northwest Airlines emerged from bankruptcy.

After 20 months of restructuring the company, CEO Doug Steenland
rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.

DOUG STEENLAND: The best way to secure job security, the best way
to secure security of your pensions and the best way to increase
standards of living is for the airline to be very successful and profitable."

BILL MOYERS: And if you feather your own nest in the process---more
power to you. On top of Steenland's salary, reported at half a million
dollars or more last year, he will get a total compensation package of
$26.6 million in stock.

That's $5.8 million in stock options and $20.8 million worth of restricted
stock that will vest over the next four years. And his official next-of-kin
the company's four Executive Vice Presidents - were offered more than
10 million dollars each, on top of their salaries, if they stay on for four
years.

Oh, yes, Gary Wilson, the outgoing chairman — who already has $21
million dollars from stock he cashed in just before the bankruptcy — will
get a two million-dollar good-bye gift plus medical and dental insurance
for life — that's right — for life.

As for the folks who merely fly the planes, fix the engines, and serve
those meals — I mean, snacks — well, they took pay cuts of 20 to 40
percent, as well as curtailed medical benefits, fewer days off and frozen
pensions.

JUDITH FISHER, FLIGHT ATTENDANT: When you have veteran
employees that have given a lifetime of commitment to service and good
employment to this employer. It made me really really angry. Very sick
to my stomach when I my pension has been cut and frozen.


BILL MOYERS: No wonder Northwest pilots, flight attendants and
machinists were out in protest on the steps of the Minnesota state
capitol last week.

To keep the airline aloft, pilots increased their working hours by as
much as 20 percent while taking a pay cut of 40 percent.

PROTESTORS: We built these airlines, we built this company. Let's
take it back today.

BILL MOYERS: To make ends meet, pilot Ron Hay has to sell his
house and move his family back to his wife's hometown in Texas.

RON HAY, NORTHWEST PILOT: Our CEO's $26.6 million is one
complete annual payment to our pension fund. Our pension fund could
be one more step closer to whole. The $25 million is probably in excess
any funds needed to bring us back down to a medical benefit that we
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Here is version 2 of the Delta contest video for Donovan and Elisabeth.

Funny ancient commercial for SouthWest Airlines.

American Airlines

767 Music Vid

An airline that really cares...

Departing Mexico City.

Sundance Vacations of Philadelphia, PA, is much more than a wholesale travel company. Watch this video to learn more about this celebrated Pennsylvania based company. Starting in 1991 as a small Poconos   more...rental agency, Sundance Vacations has grown to Philadelphia and now is a successful national company, making travel more affordable for people like you, all year long.  less

Who is Sundance Vacations? Sundance Vacations began as a small rental agency in 1991- and has grown into a large national company, acclaimed for ethics in the marketplace, and generously giving back to   more...the community through various charities. Sundance offers wholesale travel packages and dedicates their service to customer satisfaction- Watch this video to find out more about Sundance.  less

http://www.free-travel-vouchers.com print your own flight vouchers, hotel gift vouchers and airline vouchers right from your desktop printer

http://www.free-travel-vouchers.com Yes, you can print airline vouchers and travel vouchers directly from your desktop printer.

866.260.7070 www.mokuleleairlines.com Mokulele is the newest of the Hawaii Interisland Airlines. Whether you're traveling for business or pleasure, Mokuelele AIrlines puts the aloha back into interisland   more...travel serving Oahu, Maui, Kaui and the Big Island. Enjoy the comfort of luxury at an affordable price. Large plush leather seats, spacious overhead bins, and customer service second to none. www.mokuleleairlines.com Toll free: 866.260.7070  less

Alaska Airlines today launched a major new brand advertising campaign designed to showcase its positioning as the customer service leader among airlines. The campaign highlights how the airline's great   more...customer service and low fares, coupled with innovative use of technology to making flying easier, differentiate Alaska from other carriers.

To view Multimedia News Release, go to http://www.prnewswire.com/mnr/alaskaair/37602/  less

I visit my grandmother once again. This time, I go through United Airlines and go through Narita airport... I'm also trying a new video format....

funny commercial

See the Shower and Spa on the new Emirates A380 plane.

See the Premium First Class Lounge on the new Emirates A380 plane.

Emirates Airbus A380 - The first showers in the sky. On board Shower Spa and premium lounge, the future has arrived

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Active8 the superbug killer
The world's first, green, non-toxic cleaner disinfectant
Greenbridge International Limited
http://www.Greenbridge.co.uk

Activ8 is scientifically proven to be highly effective against   more...a wide spectrum of spores, bacteria, viruses and fungi making it an ideal non-toxic cleaner/disinfectant for Aircraft, Airlines and the whole Travel Industry.

Activ8 the greener alternative.  less

In a reaction to the fuel price epidemic, American Airlines is making a move to cut costs, mainly in their flight crew employment.

Nearly 900 flight attendant jobs will be eliminated, which represents   more...about 5% of the 18,000 American Airlines attendants work force.

Federal Law requires major layoffs to give workers 60 days’ notice, which would put the crews out of work as of August 31.

In what projects to be the second worst year for the industry behind 2001 and the 9/11 attacks, American Airlines (the nation’s largest airline) is faced with a $1.27 Billion cost of parking aircrafts and paying employee severance packages.

American Airlines expects fuel costs to total approximately $10 Billion for 2008, up from $6.7 Billion in 2007. Citing the high price of fuel, the airline has already decreased its number of flights, raised fairs, and charged passengers $15 per checked bag.

American Airlines spokesman Tim Wagner stated, “these are difficult, but necessary changes given the unprecedented challenges with overcapacity in the industry, skyrocketing fuel prices, and a worsening U.S. economy.”

Wagner didn’t say if the airline would start charging for peanuts too…


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Flight from Chicago O'Hare to Tulsa International, using my G9 camera. During the flight a B2 bomber flew underneath us, but I wasn't fast enough to pull out the camera and get a shot of it. Flight   more...was on May 16th, 2008 around 11:45 AM.  less

-Flight São Paulo - London

-By Elaine Zerati Welzel, flight attendant of United Airlines.