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According to the results of a recent survey, perhaps that should be amended to: hell is other people on airplanes.The survey, conducted by the marketing company DDB Worldwide Communications Group Inc., asked Americans to choose which of four scenarios constituted the worst experience to have on an airplane. The response?Citing the recurrent calls for child-free flights and family-free sections on planes, the company’s U.S. chief strategist James Lou said, “…we were surprised to find that crying babies didn’t rate higher as an annoyance to airline travelers." Lou said wailing babies and misbehaving children seem to be “less bothersome” than other issues. The same appears to be true regarding overweight seatmates. [Read the full article] SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — A 16-year-old U.S. high school student was shot and killed at a Costa Rican hotel by a security guard who mistook him for a thief, authorities said Thursday.High school senior Justin Johnston of McLouth, Kansas, was shot in the chest before dawn Thursday at the La Cangreja Lodge hotel in the city of La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rican police said in a statement.The security guard, who was identified as a 34-year-old man by the last name of Guevara, has been detained, police said.Police said the students had been sent to bed at 10 p.m. Wednesday but a group left their rooms and went to another building on the premises. They were returning to their rooms before dawn Thursday through a desolate area when the security guard spotted them and thinking they were thieves opened fire.According to a story in the Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion, the shooting took place at 4 a.m., LJWorld.com in Lawrence, Kansas, reported. [Read the full article] KINGSTON, Jamaica " The Caribbean's first discount airline is having a rough time getting off the ground and the company's Irish chief executive blames political fear of competition for the region's government-affiliated carriers.These travelers consider U.S. State Department travel advisories not a warning whistle to steer clear but a siren song to come and stay.Ian Burns dreams of creating a Caribbean version of Europe's cut-rate Ryanair, advertising flights for as little as $10 that would make it dramatically easier for people across the islands to fly and do business, boosting the region's economy. People in the Caribbean have long complained that costly, inefficient air service has choked back investment and jobs.But regulators in two key countries have not yet given Burns' REDjet permission to operate. And so far he's unable to offer any flights to the United States, the most important source of travelers and trade for the Caribbean. [Read the full article] 
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