A holiday transportation special
The World
PRX
4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
The World brings you a collection of transportation stories from across the globe. Air carriers around the world expand premium seats and luxury cabins for big spenders. Also, a group of YouTube streamers turn the nerve-racking logistics of world travel into friendly competition. And, a look at Bolivia's cable car system — the longest in the world. Plus, pets flying with their owners in style.
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| 0:00.0 | As we face one of the biggest travel weekends of the year, we're on the move with |
| 0:09.2 | transports of delight. |
| 0:10.7 | Stories from the world's planes, trains, and automobiles. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Carolyn Beeler. |
| 0:15.6 | And I'm Marco Wurman. |
| 0:16.7 | We'll be peeking inside the plane cabins in elite class. |
| 0:20.0 | It has a bedroom with a double bed and a sitting room with a couch. |
| 0:24.5 | We'll also find inner piece on a cable car in Bolivia. |
| 0:28.1 | Flying high over the busy streets, you can hear the sounds of the city, but they're muffled |
| 0:32.3 | by the distance and the glass. |
| 0:34.4 | Plus, the voice behind train announcements in Japan crushing the accents. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm Australian mimicking a Canadian who was mimicking a British woman who was the original |
| 0:44.2 | voice on the Shinkansen. Also, international tag anyone? The guy in Slovenia offered to hide me |
| 0:50.6 | in his house. We're transporting you today on the world. |
| 0:57.4 | This is the world. I'm Marco Werman. And I'm Carolyn Beeler. Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for |
| 1:03.0 | spending part of your day with us. If you traveled anywhere for the holiday, you probably noticed |
| 1:07.7 | you were in good and sizable company. Thanksgiving is one of the |
| 1:11.3 | busiest travel weekends of the year. The stress of it all might make some of you nostalgic for when |
| 1:15.8 | flying at least was a bit more civilized. Time flies quickly when one is happy and comfortable. |
| 1:22.5 | Tea time is always a treat on this airline. Tea time on an airline. This Thanksgiving, we're enjoying some of our |
| 1:29.1 | favorite travel and transportation stories from the more recent past, escapism with relevance. |
| 1:35.2 | We start with what is, I got to admit, the fantasy of flying in one of those first-class suites |
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