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- <text id=90TT1648>
- <title>
- June 25, 1990: Business Notes:Airlines
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- AIRLINES
- Haute Cuisine At Low Altitude
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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