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- BUSINESS, Page 49Business NotesAIRLINESHaute Cuisine At Low Altitude
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- Most travelers eat airline food only because at 30,000 ft.
- they have few alternatives. But Japan Air Lines thinks its
- in-flight cuisine is so good that it can draw diners at ground
- level. In a novel promotion, JAL has opened its own restaurant,
- complete with a genuine cabin crew. Customers at the Osaka
- restaurant pay as much as $75 apiece to savor such in-flight
- specialties as flounder steamed in wine and red snapper stuffed
- with crayfish. To whet their appetite for travel, JAL has
- patrons enter a replica of a Boeing 767 cabin to watch a 5-min.
- videotape that highlights JAL destinations. Reservations for
- the restaurant, which will be open until September at Osaka's
- flower exposition, can be booked through the airline's
- ticketing system. The experience, however, is not entirely
- authentic. Diners are not required to wear a seat belt.
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