Travel

Top Chef groupies can get a coveted seat at the dinner table for season nine's "Restaurant Wars" episode. And as any true TC fan worth his weight in foie gras can tell you, "Restaurant Wars" is always the single most exciting, drama-filled show.

Details are finally here for that Air France auction we gave you the heads up on in August. Starting today and going through October 21, Air France will be auctioning off tickets for the maiden voyage of their new A380 .

Ticket winners will be eligible for an array of perks collectively described as an "itinerary of cultural activities and shopping." For the NYC-Paris flight that basically means they'll take you to all kinds of small stores where you can drop your devalued USD's, the upshot being you can tell people their Christmas presents came from "Parisian boutiques." The Paris-NYC flight will also have three "key figures in the world of art and culture ," the presence of which will presumably be a boon to star-struck passengers.