P2JW008000-0-D00100-1--------XA CMYK Composite CL,CN,CX,DL,DM,DX,EE,EU,FL,HO,KC,MW,NC,NE,NY,PH,PN,RM,SA,SC,SL,SW,TU,WB,WE BG,BM,BP,CC,CH,CK,CP,CT,DN,DR,FW,HL,HW,KS,LA,LG,LK,MI,ML,NM,PA,PI,PV,TD,TS,UT,WO STYLE & TRAVEL For the Seahawks, Honesty Is the Best Defense Designing Duo Looks to Get Out of Digital Prints SPORTS D6 ON STYLE D3 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. © 2015 Dow Jones & Company. All Rights Reserved. Thursday, January 8, 2015 | D1 Coffee onYour Tie? No Problem How the Pros Rescue Clothing From Stains, Spills and Sudden Downpours; What to Keep in Your Desk Drawer ❼ ❸ ❺ ❹ ❻ ❶ ❷ ❽ ❽ David Chow for The Wall Street Journal, Styling by Anne Cardenas ❶ A hair dryer can be used not only for hair but for clothes wet from rain. ❷ ❸ Flat sponges are compact for storage and better for blotting stains than paper towels. ❹ A spray bottle of water can work, with the hair dryer, Dish detergent can work as a stain-fighter. to steam wrinkles out. BY RAY A. SMITH Just when Michael N. Loukas, a 42-year-old San Franciscobased investment manager, had an important meeting to attend, he faced a clothing emergency. As he was walking out of his office, about six months ago, one of his front belt loops caught on the door handle and wound ❺ ❼ A spare shirt and tie mean you have a backup in case of spills. Use a pocket mirror to check for things like food stuck in teeth. ❻ ❽ Keep shoe-care products such as polish or a buffer around in case your shoes get scuffed. up “just dangling,” he says. He looked around the office, spotted a stapler and had an idea. “I thought ‘I have to fix this. Now I have to be MacGyver,’ ” he says. He took off his pants in his office, which is windowless, and stapled the loop back on. Sometimes bad things happen to good clothes. In a split second, a coffee spill, broken zipper, children’s handprint or sudden downpour can ruin an outfit. During winter, there are extra haz- Don’t forget basics like a sewing kit and a lint brush. ards, such as deep puddles, snow-pelting wind and salty slush, to wreak havoc on shoes and clothes. Style pros and cleaning experts swear by some quick tricks that can work when there isn’t enough time to go home or buy a new outfit. They say anyone can create a fashion tool kit to keep in a desk drawer, using ordinary office staples as well as prodPlease turn to page D4 THE MIDDLE SEAT BY SCOTT MCCARTNEY There seems no end to ways airfares can confound and frustrate travelers. Airlines charge different prices for the same trip depending on which direction passengers are flying. For example, the average price paid for tickets on Los Angeles-Honolulu round-trips was $614 if the trip originated in Los Angeles, 7.5% more expensive than the $571 average-ticket price if you started in Honolulu. That is among the findings of a study conducted for The Wall Street Journal by Airlines Reporting Corp., which processes tickets for online and traditional travel agencies. International flights had the biggest directional price differences. Between New York and London, travelers paid $2,507 on average if they started in New York and $1,672 if they began the trip departing from London, an $835, or 50%, boost. Be- Fares on round-trips can depend on where you start New York Kennedy to London Heathrow $2,507 London Heathrow to New York Kennedy $1,672 Honolulu to Los Angeles International $571 Composite MAGENTA BLACK CYAN YELLOW Corbis (2); Getty Images (Los Angeles, Hawaii) Los Angeles International to Honolulu $614 tween New York and Tel Aviv, people leaving from the U.S. paid $354, or 28%, more on average than people in Israel—$1,618 if the round-trip began from New York’s Kennedy Airport versus $1,264 if the trip started at Tel Aviv. In theory, just as many passengers are traveling back and forth between any pair of cities. Travelers who head to Hawaii from Los Angeles are also competing for seats on return flights home from Honolulu. And there isn’t any cost difference to the airlines for the round-trip no matter which direction is flown first. “I think the U.S. consumer is being gouged by the airlines, but it’s the nature of commerce,” said Guy Millo, chief executive officer of Da’at Educational Expeditions, which organizes group tours in Israel and has offices there and in the U.S. “There’s no way a 28% price difference between New York and Tel Aviv can be attributed to fewer travelers on a round-trip route. Travelers go both ways.” Mr. Millo, who travels regularly between the U.S. and Israel, has personally taken advantage of the pricing difference. Six years ago he used frequent-flier miles to go one way to Israel. Now all his round-trips back and forth are ticketed with departures from Tel Aviv rather than New York. The scheduling gets complicated, but the savings is significant. In November, he flew on a $3,200 round-trip Delta Air Lines businessclass ticket, but the same flights would have been at least $5,500 if he had started in New York. American Airlines, Delta and United Airlines all say directional differences result from simple supplyand-demand pricing. If there are more people in New York going to Please turn to the next page We serve fewer clients per advisor than most wealth managers. With a 97% retention rate, apparently we’re on to something. There’s an old saying about quality versus quantity that applies fittingly to wealth management. Take on fewer clients per advisor and you can offer superior service to each. At BNY Mellon Wealth Management, we do just that. So our advisors — and the team of professionals behind them — can keep the client at the center of everything they do. 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