Article: Flights of fancy with Anjelica Huston and chocolate-chip cookies

It wasn't so much the free-flowing Moet & Chandon champagne that made me drool, or the nearness of the very lovely Anjelica Huston or the gold-plated air vents.

What made this trip so special was the chocolate-chip cookies.

Sure, you can get warm, soft, freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies at any sea-level shopping mall. But at 37,000 feet, they're a kick. And on MGM Grand Air, nothing less will do.

Imagine an airline so steeped in amenities that in comparison, flying the Concorde is like traveling steerage. With only 33 seats and six pampering flight attendants in tuxedos, the jets of MGM Grand Air are as lavish and excessive as the former hotel they're named for.

Were Fred ...

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