Mr Buck, who is 45, has been accused of running amok in the first-class cabin during a British Airways flight across the pond last year.

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Singapore will give first-class passengers no ordinary bland flight cabin, but a plush wood-and-leather affair that it has designed after studying how the world's five-star hotels do it.

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American Airlines and TWA -- both owned by Dallas-based AMR Corp -- will no longer serve meals in the main cabin on most domestic flights and in first class on domestic flights under two hours.

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