Road Warrior: from the $32,000 ticket to healthy hotels

Imagine paying the price of a car for a plane ticket to New York. Now you can: $32,000 is the price from Abu Dhabi in your personal suite on Etihad’s A380 superjumbo aircraft. The Residence, the three-room on-board luxury suite, is producing healthy forward bookings before it comes into service on December 1.

The suite has a living room, bedroom and bathroom with shower. Needless to say, there is also a butler to take care of your needs. The price is equivalent to 26 economy seats on the same route.

An Even way to stay fit

IHG’s lifestyle brand hotel Even is getting ready to open in Manhattan and Brooklyn by the end of the year. The focus is on keeping you fit and well while on the road.

Each hotel has a gym, group fitness classes, healthy food choices and rooms equipped for training. Each room also has resistance bands, Swiss ball and yoga mat.

Even has also produced a video to show you how to use the in-room equipment. You can watch it here: http://bit.ly/1hBLAmK.

There are already Even hotels in Rockville, Maryland and Norwalk, Connecticut.

The All Blacks take on the ‘Men in Black’

Cheer yourself up by watching the new Air Zealand inflight video. It features All Black captain Richie McCaw and outhalf

Dan Carter

as the Men in Black.

Based on the MIB movie, the video has an edgy rap rhythm. Also appearing are coach Steve Hansen and players Kieran Read, Keven Meatamu, Sam Whitelock and Israel Dagg.

Rip Torn reprises the role of chief of the MIB with Australian David Campese, former England captain Martin Johnson and former Argentinian captain Agustin Pichot making cameo appearances. You don't have to go to New Zealand to watch it; see it on airnewzealand.com.

Handy app for airport orientation

Regular flyers with

United

Airlines will find its updated app useful for navigating some of the busiest airports it flies into, including Newark, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles and Washington.

The system uses uses beacons to help customers navigate the terminals.

So if you are looking for an ATM or somewhere to eat or trying to find your gate, the app will help you.

If you have a boarding pass stored in the app, the map will automatically default to your gate location.