Royal Caribbean mixes innovative iPhone app with on-board Wi-Fi
Royal Carribean already has Wi-Fi on their ships. Now they’ve added an iPhone application to go with it.
Royal Caribbean is taking things to the next level with their “Royal Connect” service. Royal Connect combines the 1,000 hotspot locations on the ship with an iPhone app and Wi-Fi enabled wrist bands.
Once installed on your phone, you pay $17.50 for the duration of the cruise, to get access to stateroom calling, online restaurant and spa reservations, guest locator, daily schedule and best of all – a kid tracker.
Whole-body scanners strip dignity, Pope says
In a talk to 1,200 airport workers gathered at the Vatican, the Pope opined on the state of the airline industry and noted that it is one of the main means of communication between cultures in the world.
Although the pontiff did not use the words “body scanner” during the audience with airport workers, it was clear what he meant as he said: “It is above all essential to protect and value the human person in their integrity.”
Acknowledging that airports were in the forefront of the terrorist threat and suffering economically, he added: “Even in this situation, one must never forget that respecting the primacy of the human person and attention to his or her needs does not make the service less efficient nor penalize economic management.”
“For you this reality represents an ever more task of complex organisation and it is a labour that if often discreet and barely known, not always noted but which does not escape the eyes of God, who sees all of Man’s works even those that are hidden.”
Groundbreaking set Monday on $1.55B LAX renovation
Los Angeles broke ground on Monday on a $1.55B Bradley West terminal at Los Angeles International Airport.
The mammoth project will add 1.25 million square feet of building area to the Bradley International Terminal, which was completed for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic games. The existing building will be gutted in two phases, and a new concourse will be built to the west, on the land currently occupied by the twin taxiways between the northern and southern sets of runways.
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