Travel Stories and News for 6/8/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

Below is a list of travel stories and news for 6/8/2009

Mile-High Dogfight: Real Sweat, Fake Weapons – Forbes.com
Golf too slow? These weekend warriors roar through the sky searching for the next ”kill.”Hitman screamed across an azure sky at 5,000 feet in hot pursuit of Mack Attack, pulling some serious Gs as he shot up out of an inverted roll and dive. Although the wings of his Marchetti SF-260 fighter plane started to vibrate and his vision began to blur, he kept pulling the nose of the plane up even as he sunk further into his seat. Hitman didn’t want to be killed.

Business Class Lavatory Interloper Reaches Deal; Mile-High Toilet Rights In Question || Jaunted
Back in March there was a guy flying in coach class on a Delta Air Lines flight from Honduras to Atlanta who desperately needed to use the lavatory. Unfortunately, a beverage cart blocked his way to the loo, and the flight attendant wouldn’t let him use the business class lavatory, because it’s forbidden by some TSA policy on international airplane toilet class divisions or something.

How China has become a golfer’s paradise
Call me a heretic, but I’d rather take a golf vacation to China than Scotland or Ireland any day. I’d head not for St. Andrews and the Old Course but for Shenzhen and Mission Hills Golf Club, with its 12 (!) golf courses.
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