Two days after nearly losing a 144-seat jet that narrowly avoided a collision with a military target practice jet near Newcastle, Virgin Blue has finally won approval for an alliance with Etihad, which gives it faster flights than Qantas to many parts of Europe.
Sometimes the experience surrounding the eating of a nice meal - say, having it cooked and served by your grandma - is more important than the eating itself. Meals on the road are similar, including a delicious feed of korrthu gobbled down by Scott Bridges in Sri Lanka.
Recently new Back in a Bit blogger India Lloyd wrote an introductory piece about life in the Cayman Islands. Never did she imagine that it would be contentious, or that her normal life would be considered a hotbed of self-indulgence and conceit.
Passengers flying economy who make connections from full-service airlines to Jetstar will continue on "selected" flights to get meals and the same free baggage allowance as they took for granted on their non-Jetstar flights.
Over the past year or so traveller Scott Bridges has endured eleven extended sit-ins at international airports around the world. Many bouts of exhaustion and boredom have taught Bridges the importance of embracing "the art of transit zen."
A cabin decompression on Qantas flight QF670 between Adelaide and Melbourne this morning pushed the terrorist attack at Moscow's Domodedovo Airport off the top of this morning's radio bulletins.
Robin O’Brien tagged along to an eagle hunting carnival, held every year in Bokonbayevo, Kyrgyzstan. It was a big day, particularly since eagle Oymok was making his return from injury, caused by a wolf bite.
If Boeing didn’t deliberately lie, it had to have been totally ignorant of the true state of the project for which it was raking in mega-bucks.
If the Air NZ purchase of 14.9% of Virgin Blue is a blocking move to prevent, say, Etihad from acquiring a significant interest in the carrier, it may well be thwarted by "unintended consequences".
There there snags, beers, a game of backyard cricket and an argument over the merits of the Triple J Hottest 100. It was an average Australia Day but with one slight difference: Jay Martin was in Warsaw, Poland, where the temperature was minus 25 and the ground was covered in a metre of snow.
