Ongoing History Daily: The Beastie Boys and British Airways
True or false: the Beastie Boys got a big boost early in their career as the result of a lawsuit involving British Airways. The answer is “maybe.” Back in the summer of 1983,
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Korean Airlines has a new K-pop safety video
As someone who flies Air Canada a lot, I’m bored to tears by the same-old same-old style of preflight safety video. It’s dry, dull, and eminently ignorable. Other airlines (EVA, British, Air New
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Concerts in the Sky: A List of Live Performances Aboard Passenger Aircraft (And Other High-Altitude Gigs)
[Another list from current intern-in-residence, Dorothy Lee. We want to make this the definitive list of airborne concerts, so if you have anything to add, please do. Bascially, if you have anything that
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British Airways Ups the Ante with a New Pre-flight Safety Video
Most pre-flight safety videos are as dull as a Friday night at a convent. This one from British Airways, is an exception.
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Random Music News for Tuesday, May 19, 2015
When I landed in Singapore last night, I went from plane to immigration to luggage to the taxi is 13 MINUTES. Best airport in the world. SUCK IT, Pearson. Spotify and Starbucks are
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Meanwhile, in the World of Music and Airlines…
As someone who used to supply in-flight audio entertainment to Air Canada (I got bumped off when the airline changed their technology and struck a deal with XM), I’m still very interested in
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Mariah Carey Is Not of This Earth, Part…Whatever
I spent 31 hours flying back from Mauritius–an island in the Indian Ocean on the far side of Africa–in economy, of course. Fortunately, I was able to get an emergency row seat which
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