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Mark On AirTran Gets His Own Plane After 30 Days Of Flying

July 6, 2009 at 8:49 AM | by JetSetCD | 0 Comments

In the beginning of June, we asked if you'd ever spend thirty days straight flying around on the same airlines, like comedian Mark Malkoff was doing with AirTran.

Well on June 30, Mark finally (shakily) stepped onto solid ground, and along with accepting the Guinness World Record for most flights within 30 days—he did 135—he was welcomed with his very own plane. Well, it's actually just some special livery applied to an Airtran Boeing 717, and despite the cornyness, we kind of wish that every WiFi-equipped plane sported a logo as big as this one.

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Would You Live Aboard AirTran Flights For One Month?

June 4, 2009 at 9:32 AM | by JetSetCD | 1 Comment

Our answer, simply put, is "hell no." But for the next month, comedian and Colbert Report employee Mark Malkoff is doing just that; he's sleeping and eating and breathing air travel 24/7 in order to conquer his own fear of flying.

Now that he's already up to day four of his travels, which has thus far taken him from New York-LaGuardia to Atlanta to San Francisco to Milwaukee and more on AirTran, he's taken to keeping up a dialogue with followers on Twitter. From his @mmalkoff account, we learn that not only had he had an opthamologist board a plane to fit him for contacts, but that he's doing this month without an ipod or any music with which to zone out.

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