Here's a remarkable exception to cramped airline travel:

TIME IS MONEY ... SO WHY NOT TRAVEL BY BLIMP?
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#195860)
Worldwide Aeros Corp. is applying an expanded notion of comfort
and luxury to executive air travel albeit with the sacrifice of
time. The company's Aeroscraft ML866 is set to make a bid at
offering the "private air yacht" experience to corporate air
travel at the National Business Aviation Association's 60th annual
convention to be held next month in Atlanta. In a market flooded
with higher faster and farther business jet options, the future
Aeroscraft's projected 120-knot top speed hopes to be offset by
its 5,000-square-foot unpressurized cabin that would provide
"ultimate comfort" for a few or "a computerized office,
videoconferencing capability, communications package, and a
conference room that while on the ground will accommodate up to
one hundred people, transformable interior and personal state
room."
http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#195860