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Obese traveler dies awaiting plane big enough to fly home
NEW YORK — A hugely obese New York woman visiting her native Hungary died while trying to find a plane to fly her home, and her family is reportedly suing airlines that had balked, citing her size. Janos Soltesz and his wife Vilma, an ill woman from the Bronx, visited…
Dutch airline to run planes on cooking oil
THE HAGUE (AFP) – Dutch airline KLM announced on Wednesday that it will use a biofuel generated from used cooking oil to power more than 200 commercial flights between Paris and Amsterdam starting in September. “There will be 50 percent traditional kerosene and 50 percent biofuel extracted from used cooking…
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