The company has to conduct battery- and insulation-related pre-flight inspections, watch battery behavior like a hawk, use only its own pilots and fly over unpopulated areas.

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Once in Precheck, TSA still checks names against terrorism watch lists before every flight, just as it does for other travelers.

WSJ: $100 to Fly Through the Airport

Football games last about three hours -- longer than the actual flight -- and still passengers were willing to pay to watch a game they knew they wouldn't catch the end of.

CNN: Tablets and live TV transforming entertainment on planes

During the flight we pass a thousand feet over the wetlands, and I watch the landscape change rapidly below: Long, thin lagoons slice through thick fields of brown marsh.

CNN: The story

Reid is being held under a suicide watch at a detention facility in Massachusetts on a criminal complaint of interference with a flight crew.

CNN: Suspect's father says racism drove son to crime

American Airlines is testing a new video streaming product from Gogo, an in-flight internet provider, that allows passengers on US flights to rent movies or TV shows onboard and watch them on their own wi-fi enabled laptops or tablets.

BBC: In-flight entertainment at a crossroads

After our flight, he asked when his feature would be on television, so he could tell his parents when to watch.

CNN: Remembering a fallen hero

Business class passengers on El Al Israel Airlines and French carrier Open Skies are given an iPad to watch movies or listen to music, and Swiss regional carrier Skywork uses them for its in-flight customer satisfaction survey.

BBC: Tablets invade the travel sphere

Fly Mumbai to Goa - a flight of less than an hour - and even in economy class you will be served a full hot meal and watch live satellite TV.

BBC: Smooth skies: The world's best airlines