Host's View One of the good things about being an air courier is that you're literally forced to travel with only a carry-on, so you don't have to waste time hanging around the airport waiting for all of your bags. Not that it's all that bad, being stuck at an airport these days. But while airport commerce has diversified, The Savvy Traveler's Wesley Weissberg has noticed one service at New York's Kennedy Airport that has her puzzled. Visit this page on Tuesday, June 22 to listen with RealAudio. There's a dentist at Kennedy Airport, and there's been one here since the place opened at Idlewild in 1948.
Nobody seems to have any idea.
The office sits at the end of the runway. Through big glass windows you can watch the big jets sidle up to the gates below. It's a spectacular view. I've had airlines call right from flight, 'we have a passenger in pain, in pain. And the airlines love it.