You don't have to risk your life playing airlines.
I don't have the stomach to play airline stocks, but U.S Airways soared from its option value of less than $2 to more than $10 in a matter of weeks.
Or play airline roulette, where the fare fluctuations are held down by JetBlue and Southwest.
Playing by Airline Rules In the "On the Road" column of Dec. 28 ("Blizzard, and Inflexibility, Knock Out Air Travel"), Joe Sharkey interviews G. Bruce Hedlund, "who, like all major airline pilots, cannot mention his airline by name in interviews".
Ron Howard said he caught the first glimmer of it during audience previews for "Ransom," the dark-tinged 1996 thriller he directed with Mel Gibson playing an airline entrepreneur with an unsavory secret.
Cary Grant plays the airline manager Geoff Carter, wearing an bizarrely exotic white outfit with broad-brimmed hat.
In the new film Mr. Washington plays an airline pilot whom we see first struggling to wake up on the morning of a flight: He rolls over in bed, groggily, takes a swig from one of many open cans of beer, mumbles a few bleary words to the flight attendant who has just risen from his bed, snorts a couple of lines of cocaine, and he is (more or less) good to go.
Lupita Nyong'o plays an airline hostess, but her talents are wasted as she has little to do.
With so many laptops, Game Boys, PlayStation Portables and game-loaded mobile phones on board, it's rare to see a passenger playing with the airline's own selection.
In an initiative that is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, Southwest is replacing its longtime humorous approach, as typified by ads with themes like "You are now free to move about the country," with a smoother, more polished tack that is intended to help burnish the Southwest brand image by playing up the airline's status as the biggest domestic carrier.
