FlyingCo lets your boss bank the miles for future flights taken by one of your co-workers.
That means that participating companies, such as DaimlerChrysler or HSBC Holdings, can apply the miles for future flights for any of its staff.
And while investors are buying in to the vision that lots of city dwellers are going to be scooting the last mile in future, and betting big on sizable value being captured by a few plucky scooter startups — more than half a billion dollars has been funneled into just two of these slimline scooter brands, Bird and Lime, since February — there are skeptical notes being sounded too.
Ms. Salaun's hawklike design vision sees miles into the future.
He moved to New Jersey in 1951 and opened a liquor-store chain in Clifton, a few miles from the future site of the arena.
It's said that a few days before he died, Dickens was seen standing in a park in Rochester, just a few miles from the future site of Dickens World, gazing wistfully at a stout brick building across the street.
Miles from the future Olympic Village, the refurbished Maracanã stadium and the new subway stops that have turned streets in Ipanema and Leblon into construction sites, Rio's old downtown, the center of Brazil's public life for much of the 19th and 20th centuries, has come springing back over the past decade or so as an entertainment and cultural hub.
So what's the point of driving a hundred miles towards the future?
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Think of it like running a marathon: you want a strong start to guide your attitude and determination through future miles, but set out too fast and you'll be out of fuel before you can finish.
Lorde's take on her "Tennis Court" served to underline the shift: "Pretty soon I'll be getting on my first plane," she sang in a song written when she was in her midteens and unaware of the accrued frequent flier miles of her future.
