I just came across a good article in The Atlantic that sums up the challenges and changes in the airline industry that can be expected in the coming several years, from fares to check-in to the inflight experience. Very much worth a read.
“Well, I’m planning on flying up to Portland, Maine next week,” I told my friend. Dead silence. Clear disapproval. I understood that. It’s early July still in the midst of our much misunderstood pandemic and I was doing something crazy. Getting on
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A half dozen years ago, our blog Love2Fly ran a series of posts reviewing the history of Iberia cabin-crew uniforms from 1946 through the first decade and a half of the 21st century. During that time the airline was fortunate to enlist a distingu
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Some people fly without difficulty. When their plane drops in turbulence, stress hormones are triggered by their brain just as in the brain of a person whose nerves get jangled. The person who flies easily regulates the stress hormones – and th
Travel isn’t always a bed of roses. There are natural disasters, tainted products, bad actors, data breaches, regional and global viruses, and events big and small that require industries to step up, speak up, and do whatever it takes to care of t
In a recent interview with the Guardian, Virgin Atlantic's Richard Branson is confident that airlines can implement technology solutions that will stop airlines worsening the climate crisis. Is he being his usual relentlessly upbeat promotional self
The final purchase prices paid by airlines for additions to their fleets are among the commercial aviation industry's most closely guarded secrets. The big two manufacturers, Airbus and Boeing, do publish annual lists of what are called book prices
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Like some in the travel media and industry, in the back of my mind I have for some time been a bit uneasy about the role we play in promoting travel - especially via air - inasmuch as it seems to contribute to further polluting the environment and
When Robert Herbst's nonstop flight from New York to Raleigh, North Carolina, turned into a one-stop, he got worried. When American Airlines assured him he could make a connection at Washington's Reagan National Airport in just 30 minutes, he got ve
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As personal space on planes continues to shrink, all eyes are falling on the last place where you can still enjoy a small amount of dignity: the emergency exit row.
The rows leading to the “overwing” emergency exits usually still have the humane 36
Read more…This past spring, researchers from Wichita State University and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University released the 2019 edition of the closely-watched U.S. Airline Quality Ratings (AQR). The team responsible for the ratings sat down for an exclusive
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Eric Hochstein found something unusual on his bill at the Gregory Hotel in New York City recently.
No, it wasn't the mandatory $35-per-day resort fee that covers local and domestic calls, a 24-hour fitness center and coffee and tea. And it wasn't t
Read more…I think I have remembered all the planes I have flown on since I started traveling in the 1960′s. That was tough. I started traveling as a child in the Midwest, then to South America, and then, well all over.
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The first plane I remember flyin
With the popularity of electronic cigarettes continuing to grow, many people who like to vape and also like to travel are unaware of some of the issues in combining the two. Here are several to keep in mind, especially in terms of flying...
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Knowing some of the basics of how flying works and how controlled it is can be of significant help in alleviating fears and anxieties relating to flying. So this time I'm going to describe three amazing systems at work on every flight
Delta Air Lines is currently the best airline in the United States, according to the latest Airline Quality Rating (AQR). The carrier's victory -- its first in 18 years -- comes against a backdrop of steady service improvement for the entire industr
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Most people, of course, board airliners and have little or no difficulty during their flights. And the reason is due to automatic regulation of arousal. It's a response which develops over time when an attuned and empathic caregiver assures a child t
To feel emotionally safe, you need to feel physically safe. Though flying is one of the safest things you can do, you need to have a good sense of why it is so safe, you need to know how controlled airline flying is. So it helps a lot if you can beco
The longest Federal government shutdown in U.S. history is having a substantial impact on leisure travel and will likely continue to do so. It's not just that airport security lines and have become incredibly long, and air traffic controllers confi
[The redevelopment of Saint Lucia’s international airport will get underway very soon. On Tuesday, December 11, 2018, the Parliament of Saint Lucia voted to borrow US$100 million for the Hewanorra International Airport redevelopment project.
The pla
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