In the Airline Inflight Entertainment Survey commissioned and conducted by Skytrax Research of London, Emirates came out on top and won the 2007 Best Airline Inflight Entertainment Award. The data was gathered using online customer surveys, business research group interviews, customer telephone interviews, and selected passenger interviews.

More than 90 different nationalities participated in the survey. Respondents nominated airlines based on the quality attributes for the following factors:

• Best total quality of inflight entertainment
• Best selection of movies (including language choices)
• Best selection of “short/magazine” video programs
• Best selection of audio programming
• Best selection of games and other interactive options
• Reliability of AVOD programming
• Ease of usage for AVOD program systems
• Quality of headset/sound quality

The top 5 airlines according to the survey are:

1. Emirates
2. Singapore Airlines
3. Cathay Pacific
4. Korean Air
5. Virgin Atlantic

I have a beautiful model of a B-24 with our original Group and Squadron markings here at my home. At the same time, I purchased one for each of my three grandsons. They love them. I am a WWII AAF vet. I flew as Flt. Engineer top turret gunner. We lost three Aircrafts–crash landing, and two bail outs. We got back two times third time we bailed out in to GermanSS held territory.I don’t know how but we survived and was released at the end of the War.

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Angie Papple turns on her computer in her spare time, writes articles about her life in the military, has just recently found writing as a passion, away from her duties as a chemical specialist in the Army.   

Papple would be analyzing a piece of software or give advice to travelers to
Hawaii, where she also lives or to some place where she’s never been.  Consequently, some of her articles bring her mere pocket change.  The most profitable article earned about $40, though she was thrilled to be considered as a writer.  Papple said, 

“It was just a big surprise that someone would actually want to give me money for writing.”  “It really shocked me at first.”

The Internet is virtually full of words written and carries pieces written in someone’s regular line of work.  Papple is very happy to serve as ultra-low-cost freelancers for sites, unlike many personal blogs, actually get readers.