From Peter Greenberg Worldwide Radio

FIVE PASSENGERS ON A PLANE!

This week in the news: Five passengers on one flight!

We all talk about crowded planes, but every once in a while, this thing shows up.

Earlier this week, an American Airlines 777, from Chicago to Heathrow, flew a total of five people.

The good news is that since there were only five people in coach, the flight attendants felt so badly for them and upgraded them all. But how did this happen?

It happened because a couple of flights got cancelled, people got redirected on other flights and five poor people who didn’t get the message ended up on this plane—and boy were they happy. You could have gone bowling on that plane.

I don’t know how they’re going to carbon offset on this puppy. There were 22,000 gallons of fuel and the plane produced 43.2 tons of carbon emissions, while carrying more flight attendants than passengers. God, I dream of being on flights like that.

NUDES ON A PLANE!

We had this happen in the United States as a charter a couple of years ago, but now a German company has launched the world’s first nudist airline. This coming July, passengers will actually be able to shed their clothes after boarding and fly in the nude.

Now, you know, if there are leather seats on the plane, that’s going to be uncomfortable. So, they’re talking about giving people towels to sit on, and here is the best part of the story, they tell me—and we haven’t checked this out yet because the plane hasn’t flown, but they tell me they won’t be serving any hot drinks. I wonder why?

The bottom line is, we’ll watch this space carefully to let you know how this nude airline flies, literally.

AN AMAZING DOCUMENTARY

I don’t normally do movie reviews, but here’s an important one. About a month and a half ago, a friend of mine asked me to host a special private screening in New York of a new documentary called Blindsight. They sent me the DVD and I was absolutely blown away. At the end of the screening, people were crying, they were clapping. I have seen the movie now three times—I haven’t seen any of the Academy Award-winning movies that many times.

I’ve seen this movie three times and it is called Blindsight. It is one of the most remarkable journeys you will ever see. This is an amazing story. We had one of the people involved on the Today show— his name is Eric Weinmeier. Back in 2001, he did something remarkable. He is totally blind and he climbed Mount Everest. That’s right, totally blind.

Now, if you think that’s remarkable, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Because what Eric did, he went back to Tibet and took six Tibetan children, all of whom are blind, and they climbed the north side of Mount Everest—up 23,000 foot. It’s remarkable, and you have to see this movie.

CAN YOU BENEFIT FROM A CLASS-ACTION SUIT?

If you used a credit card overseas between February 1, 1996 and November 8, 2006–that’s more than 10 years—you’ll be eligible for at least a $25 check. You know why?

Because there was a class-action suit against all the big cards and their issuing banks, including Visa, MasterCard, Discover Card, Bank of America, and a few others, claiming that they had never disclosed their foreign currency transaction fees. As a result the companies had to pony up more than a $336 million fund for the settlement.

Click here for more information on The Great International Credit Card Settlement.

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