Prices for using the Aircell service have ranged as high as $12.95, depending on the length of a flight, though users of Wi-Fi enabled BlackBerrys and smartphones receive discounts.
Besides the actual length of a flight, the regulations take into account the amount and quality of rest since the previous duty and the "circadian component" or jet lag.
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The news generated a flash flood of outrage, as consumers imagined having to listen to a fellow passenger's call for the length of a transcontinental flight.
Book business class only if permitted by the company and only for the allowed length of a nonstop flight, typically more than eight or 10 hours.
Do not drink coffee and/or water before boarding the New York-Washington shuttle; federal law requires passengers to stay in their seats within 30 minutes of the nation's capital, or the length of a shuttle flight, so a trip to bathroom could result in a $10,000 fine.
The fifty-level game, designed by Hiroshi Takemitsu, is played in five hours — the length of an average flight from LAX to JFK airports.
Because of the presence of non-uniform turn angle distribution of move step-lengths within a flight and two different types of flights, we propose that the epithelial random walk is a BCRW comprising of two alternating modes with varying degree of correlations, rather than a simple persistent random walk.
It costs $25 or $35, depending on the length of your flight, on top of the price of a one-way ticket.
A few readers criticized Air Canada's new travel assistance service, On My Way, which offers customers who pay $25 or $35 each way, depending on the length of the flight, around-the-clock access to a group of specially trained Air Canada customer service agents who promise to rebook you on the first available flight on Air Canada or another airline.
Hipmunk is trying to address that problem by allowing users to search for flights based on "agony" — but again, that's mostly a question of schedule (the number of layovers, the length of the flight, etc).. Albert and his team want to bring a lot more data to bear on the problem.
