Last week new regulations went into effect requiring airlines, travel sites and person to person travel agents to include all those hidden fees (the mandatory ones, anyway) that drive the actual cost of that great deal up, up and away. -Read More-
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With 70 destinations and 133 aircraft, Saudi Airlines is the third largest in the Middle East, with Jeddah, Riyadh, and Dammam as its main hubs. The airline pride itself on its network strengths to Asia, Europe, Africa and North America, and is aware
When and How Fear of Flying Can Start
When fear of flying develops, it's sometimes because there has been a bad flight. But, in many cases, difficulty begins for no apparent reason. The average age of onset is 27. The truth is, many of us become more
Read more…"A report by the Air Transport Rating Agency (ATRA), released yesterday, found that the safest carriers in the world were mainly those based in Europe and the US," says the Sydney Morning Herald. Among the top ten were U.S. Airways, United Airlines,
Read more…"International airlines continue to build capacity into Mexico, which is developing into a key aviation hub of North America due to an increase in demand from international passengers seeking to visit or do business in Mexico." -eTurbonews.com
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Read more…Note that effective 23 July, airlines have lost the authority to collect and remit some US travel taxes.
To find out what you don't have to pay starting today or get a tax credit for (if you already paid it and will travel during the time the taxes a
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Anxious fliers wonder how others fly with so little trouble. Confident fliers can’t quite understand why anyone has trouble. Why the difference? Feelings of inflight anxiety, claustrophobia, and panic are caused when stress hormones build up. These
In this day and age, for every person who takes care about what he or she eats, it seems many more are still fairly careless about it. But even those who watch what they eat may not realize that conditions while flying in a commercial jetliner – espe
Even with all the signs and signals on the roads and motorways, all of us have at one time or another gotten lost whilst driving. It would be natural to imagine, therefore, that in the vast expanse of the sky it would be quite easy to get lost withou
When many of us are wee nippers, we stare up at the clouds in fascination at the various and multifarious fantastic forms simple water droplets are capable of creating in our atmosphere. As Joni Mitchell once sang it, “rows and flows of angel hair/an
Not long ago, a video went viral on YouTube, racking up more than 10 million views. Apart from the fact that the 1,200-millimetre telephoto lens thoroughly flattens both the foreground and background, making the airplanes seem suspended in midair, wh
The complex computerized behemoths that ply the skies today obviously require correspondingly enormous and complex support and maintenance operations to keep them in flying fettle. A good example is the primary maintenance facilities of Iberia Airlin
Believe it or not, there’s a direct correlation between the type and number of coats of paint covering an aircraft and both its weight and aerodynamics — and therefore, of course, its fuel consumption. This, in turn, has an impact on the amount of ca
Ever wonder about the details of those inflatable slides that get passengers out of the plane in the event of an emergency? Here's a quick primer. If you fly with any frequency, a phrase heard over the public address system, “crew, slide arm and cros
That air travel is the safest form of transportation going is not mere happenstance but rather due to rigourous maintenance of equipment and exhaustive training of personnel. Most major airlines dedicate huge financial resources toward it, and set as
At one point or another we’ve all experienced bumpy patches during a flight, and whether we’re nervous flyers or not, few of us enjoy it. So what exactly is air turbulence, technically speaking? Wind, of course, is the movement of air particles in gr
I recently had the opportunity to tour the220,000-square metre (54-acre) maintenance facilities of Iberia Airlines at Madrid's Barajas Airport, to observe the incredibly meticulous processes brought to bear on enormous and enormously complex machiner
Most of the time we find ourselves passing through expansive airports with amenities and services galore, and nice, wide, long runways. And then, of course, there are the other airports. The ones that make for great cocktail-party tales of harrowing
As crews were still struggling to raise the fuselage AirAsia flight QZ8501, Indonesia's top transportation official said the aircraft climbed at an extreme rate just before it crashed. Investigators have had time to study the flight recorder; we can
Spectacular aircraft photos abound all over the Web these days–shots taken on runways, in hangars, taking off/landing, at cruising altitude. And many of us who glance at them, sometimes think, “how cool,” and move on. And then there are the planespot
