Dusseldorf posts

by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (3 months ago)
Jul 16th, 2009 at 4:30PM: How did this one get by me? An all-smoking airline!
Alexander Schoppmann is on the prowl for startup capital for an all-smoking airline. Once he gets the cash, he's going to lease two Boeing 747s and run a route from Dusseldorf to Tokyo. This doesn't do much for the few Americans who still prefer to light up, but if the Schoppmann can squeeze a profit out of this (which conventional airlines ...

by Kent Wien (RSS feed) (7 months ago)
Mar 17th, 2009 at 9:30AM: As part of our Gadling on the Road series, Kent Wien and his wife Linda are participating as Team Gadling in the first run of Competitours, an Amazing Race like competition taking place in three different countries in Europe. Follow along each day this week as Kent documents their progress. We arrived via train to Cologne from Frankfurt at around noon, which didn't give us much time to brush our ...

by Kent Wien (RSS feed) (7 months ago)
Mar 16th, 2009 at 10:00AM: As part of our Gadling on the Road series, Kent Wien and his wife Linda are participating as Team Gadling in the first run of Competitours, an Amazing Race like competition taking place in three different countries in Europe. Follow along each day this week as Kent documents their progress. Without much fanfare – well, without any fans and a modicum of fare paid – the 11 teams ...

by Grant Martin (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Oct 18th, 2007 at 5:10PM: In traveling to Eastern Europe last week, I had a fairly substantial layover in Düsseldorf, Germany. Figuring I could make it into the city and back during those nine hours, I checked a few of my favorite internet resources and discovered that Düsseldorf is home to the self-proclaimed longest bar in the world. Thus being the studious Gadling researcher that I am, I decided to ...

by Justin Glow (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Aug 18th, 2007 at 9:00AM: Last year we reported on a new airline trying to take to the skies called SMINTair. Everyone knows that for an airline to succeed nowadays they need to have some sort of angle: budget, luxury, high-tech, or in the case of SMINTair: cigarette smoke. Aside from offering to "treat its passengers like the guest of an international Grand Hotel," SMINTair will allow all paying customers to suck on a ...