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Article: The new jet set: with a private-plane time-share, you and your family can bid travel headaches "buh-bye." (Traveler's Notebook).
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- Town & Country
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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"My goal in life is never to fly commercial again," says Paul Hills, a businessman living in suburban Chicago. Few people would blame him. As one of thousands of passengers flying over the Atlantic on September 11, Hills was aboard an aircraft that was rerouted to Gander, Newfoundland, after the airspace over the U.S. and Canadian mainland was shut down. "We sat in that plane for twenty-four hours before they let us out," he recalls. (And you thought waiting at the gate for fifteen minutes was unbearable.)
Long before the terrorist hijackings of September 11 added an unwelcome layer of fear and hassle to air travel, vacationers and business executives alike had ...