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Photograph: Air Canada's lounge gives arriving business-class travelers, mostly from Asian cities, a place to rest, freshen up, and retrieve messages.
PHOTOGRAPHY: Copyright JAMES DOW
Photograph: An unprepossessing corridor from the arrivals area offers little preparation for the lounge experience--womblike, evocative, yet recognizably specific to the Pacific Northwest (left).
PHOTOGRAPHY: Copyright JAMES DOW
It's a commonplace paradox that the farther and faster we go, the more places look the same. Exhibit A: the airline passenger terminal. If it's Tuesday, wonders the harried frequent flier, is this acreage of metal, glass, suspended ceiling, and moving walkways Dubai? Or Dubuque?
One airline has struck a blow for the particularity of place. Air Canada asked how it might make the experience memorable for valued but jet-lagged trans-Pacific customers arriving in Vancouver. Airline management decided to create a unique...