Sep 29th, 2009 at 11:00AM: New York jet-setters short on time got some bad news last week. US Helicopter, which previously offered 8-minute helicopter flights from two local airports to Manhattan, announced on Friday that it is suspending service.
The chopper company offered flights for $159 each way from JFK and Newark airports to the Wall Street or Midtown West heli-pads in New York City, but has ceased operations due ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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US Helicopter suspends 8-minute service from airports to NYC
Sep 29th, 2009 at 11:00AM: New York jet-setters short on time got some bad news last week. US Helicopter, which previously offered 8-minute helicopter flights from two local airports to Manhattan, announced on Friday that it is suspending service.
The chopper company offered flights for $159 each way from JFK and Newark airports to the Wall Street or Midtown West heli-pads in New York City, but has ceased operations due ...See the financial crisis on this unusual Wall Street tour
Apr 28th, 2009 at 5:00PM: It's rare that you get a guided tour through still unfolding carnage. Imagine walking through Aceh right after the tsunami or New Orleans while the rains from Katrina still fell. Lower Manhattan's financial crisis tour doesn't involve as much bad weather or physical danger, but it does give you the chance to learn about the most profound financial disaster in decades in the place where it all ...Making sense of the airline industry
Apr 27th, 2009 at 4:00PM: The situation is currently grim for airlines, having gone from "bad in January to ugly by March," according to USA Today, mirroring the U.S. economy as a whole. But, some feel that the worst is behind us. At the same time, a decline in business traveler traffic may suggest that we have a long way to go.
That's why I love USA Today ... two perspectives for the price of one!
Let's make one thing ...US Airways goal: survival
Apr 15th, 2009 at 3:30PM: US Airways offers a story of aimlessness searching for an identity. Its attempts to go low-cost in 2005 never panned not, nor did its hopes of being a global heavyweight two years later. Now, it sits uncomfortably in the middle and has the unfortunate goal of survival. The CEO, Doug Parker, of course, has all the answers. He blames the industry analysts for making too much of the company's woes ...Undiscovered New York: Hidden Wall Street
Mar 18th, 2009 at 3:00PM: It's no surprise New York City bankers are not too popular these days. Between the housing meltdown and the bank bailouts, New York's most famous financial thoroughfare, Wall Street, seems to be in the news a lot, and definitely not for good reasons. Many visitors have long-agreed, regarding the area as a dead zone for good reason. Sure, there's a giant flag down there on the stock exchange and a ...David Byrne of the Talking Heads gives cycling in NYC a boost with his bicycle racks
New York lecture by serial adventurer
Dec 11th, 2007 at 2:30PM: There's a reception/dinner/talk at the New York Explorer's Club tomorrow by an adventurer who just made a "first contact" in Papua New Guinea. A "first contact," for the uninitiated, is the first meeting between someone from modern society and an indigenous tribe. To put this feat in perspective, keep in mind there are still cannibals living in PNG. Here's a good story in last year's Smithsonian ...
