Today’s New York Times includes a story by Sharon McDonnell called “Snoozing at the Terminal”:
This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 4:09 am and is filed under business ideas, startup ideas. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.“Sleeping overnight in [the] airport has become enough of a phenomenon that it has inspired one recent novel, Dear American Airlines. The author, Jonathan Miles, said he was spurred to write the book after an unscheduled overnight stay at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.
An unscheduled overnight stay at a German airport inspired one business traveler, Frank Giotto, the president of Fiber Instrument Sales in Oriskany, New York, to create the Mini Motel, a one-person tent complete with air mattress, pillow, reading light, alarm clock and pillow (which he now sells for $39.95).
Asked what airports would think of a tent city of his Mini Motels, Mr. Giotto expressed confidence.
‘People sleeping in chairs don’t seem to bother them,’ he said. ‘We could be forcing the airports to come up with a solution to respond to the tremendous need.’”
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July 25th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Where can you find the airport sleeping tent by Fiber Instrument Sales? I always sleep in airports when I travel. I’ve tried their web site and everywhere else. I can’t find where I can buy one. Help.