Living: Fitness in Flight

The passenger in seat R-25-1 would appear to be a belly dancer practicing her routine in seat-belt situ. Almost since takeoff from Cologne on Lufthansa's flight 408 to New York, she has been rotating her midsection, rolling her eyes shimmying her shoulders and flexing her thighs. And she is not the only one-just about everyone aboard is doing this "sitdown rumba." Is this a traveling company of A Chorus Line? In-flight ecdysiast transcendentalists?

Not quite. "You are now seated aboard the first airline on which you can get a little exercise while you fly,"...

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