Following a week in which there was a Boeing 787 safety incident each day, the FAA has ordered a safety review. Though FAA inspectors spent 200,000 hours inspecting the design during the development process, they now have concerns about elements…
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How to get your money back from a bankrupt airline
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If an airline goes bust after you have paid by credit card, but before you travel, your best way to get your money back is to lodge a dispute via the bank that issued the credit card. Your grounds for…
Air Asia “quiet zone” planned
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From February 2013 Air Asia will have a “quiet zone” on their flights. The front 14 rows, 7 of them economy, will be reserved for passengers 12 years old and up. Some parents reacted vocally in the press. The main…
Airport Security survival guide
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These days the process of going through airport security raises the blood pressure considerably. It is unpleasant and often humiliating. The picture that comes to mind includes long queues, unpacking all your goods onto a conveyor belt, scrabbling in your…
Air Malaysia child-free upper decks on A380 craft
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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…
Sleeping pills don’t work and they can kill you
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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 advice. Our article How to sleep on board an aircraft conspicuously…
Airbus A380 wing cracks could cost 100 million Euros
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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 repair. The total cost of the repair programme could be as…
How to sleep on board an aircraft
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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 that following our advice is not certain to ensure sleep. However,…
Yet more in-flight health and beauty tips
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Here are some additional beauty tips that have been provided by friends and associates. As you might expect, a number of these are personal brand choices. As far as we can tell, all the products are readily available. Skin care…
Jet Lag – What it is and how to cope with it
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Jet lag is when your body’s sleep cycles are still attuned to your home location, but they are out of phase with the region that you are now visiting. The symptoms? They differ by individual but are generally the same…