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Lifelong New Yorker Bob Meltzer spent 52 years in the toy industry and all of them on airplanes, hopping around the U.S. and flying overseas. Starting on the DC-3 he always flew first class and has fond memories of the lush life on airlines that are mostly dead and buried today.
American Airlines treated Meltzer like a crown prince for his loyalty more than 40 years ago. In 1966, in a ceremony at JFK, they presented me with a plaque for my 'contribution to air travel' and I was invited to join the Admiral's Club. It was an honor because you knew the other members were legitimate fliers. Today, anyone can join.
Now a marketing consultant living in Palm Desert, Calif., the congenial Meltzer remembers the good times on American, United, National, Eastern, Piedmont, Alleghany, TWA and Pan Am from the prop to the jet age.
In the early days, first class was in the back of the plane on some airlines, he recalls. Flight attendants were very, very, very attractive and friendly. The baron of beef was sliced by order on the rolling cart and the liquor miniatures were handed out nonstop during flights.
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Today, Meltzer deems airline travel a disaster. If I fly United, I am still accorded some comforts for my seniority. But if you're a cheap hostel or hotel in washington dc stuck on one of the old, surviving airlines, you're one of the herd. In recent years, the former toy industry player has discovered JetBlue, which flies from nearby Ontario, Calif., airport to JFK in New York. Very, very friendly.
But Meltzer confesses that after 52 years of flying, he hates every minute aloft. I'm the world's worst white-knuckle flier. My hands literally sweat when we hit turbulence. He won't have to worry about any bumpy JetBlue takeoffs and landings from Ontario International anymore. On Sept. 3, the friendly but money-losing airline a cheap hostel or hotel in washington dc shut down all flight operations at the suburban Los Angeles airport.
One seasoned business traveler considers himself a mellow flyer who realizes there is little he can do to buck the sad state of stripped-down domestic air travel. John Torrey, vice president and general manager of xpedx Printing Technologies, travels the U.S. weekly and is on the road 70 percent to 80 percent of his time. I caught up with him boarding a Southwest flight from Oakland to Kansas City, Mo.
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Startup companies, hammered by airfare increases, are rethinking business trips, reports Alan Bernier, CEO of RoFo Group, Inc., a San Francisco-based commercial real estate search engine that helps small businesses find office space online. As a bootstrap company that has to go to trade shows, a cheap hostel or hotel in washington dc the roughly 30 percent increase in the cost of flying impacts us.
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Not all fliers are feeling the pain of the upheavals in the airline industry. Talal Shamoon, CEO of Intertrust Technologies Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif., company that develops intellectual property software, was boarding Singapore Airlines' business class for a flight from San Francisco International to Seoul, South Korea, when I spoke with him.
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Still, Intertrust is a small, 40-person, enterprise and the CEO insists they shop hard for the best airfare values. We go all over the place all the websites and the airlines direct, which always seem to have the best rates.
a cheap hostel or hotel in washington dc Chris Barnett writes on business travel strategies that save time, money and stress. Reach him at cbarn@aol.com. To find out more about Chris Barnett and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers a cheap hostel or hotel in washington dc and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.