Air Malaysia have announced that no passengers under the age of 12 will be permitted on the upper deck of their A380 aircraft. The economy section of the lower decks of their A380 aircraft will be child-friendly. (There are 8 toilets available to families.) This follows on their previous announcement some months back that...
For those of us in sedentary occupations our vacations are an opportunity to be a little more active. Even if we do not wish to partake in heroic levels of activity, a number of tours, excursions and destinations require quite a bit of walking,...
A trick that a number of independent travellers have found useful is to have a packing list. This is simply a list of all the items that you intend packing in your luggage. The packing list has two main uses. 1. Planning You can...
If you flew between Johannesburg and Hong Kong in recent years, on Singapore Airlines or South African Airways, then you were probably illegally ripped off. The South African Competition...
Sources of travel advice very frequently recommend the use of sleeping pills to grab sleep when travelling. That is ill-advised of them because that is medical advice, not travel...
Der Spiegel has reported that repairs to the hairline cracks detected in a few ‘L’ brackets in Airbus A380 aircraft wings could cost nearly €1.5 million per aircraft to...
Passenger safety instructions will in future be provided on cruise ships prior to leaving port. This is effective immediately for cruise lines belonging to the three largest cruise industry...
On Wednesday 8 February 2012 it was announced that the Hotel Association of New York has agreed to provide hotel staff with panic alarms that they can use if...
Sleeping on an aircraft is an elusive goal. The average traveller gets poor quality sleep or none at all. The sad news is that the environment is so awful...