The advent of low-cost, no-frill airlines has seen the demise of many an unappetising inflight meal. While most passengers are happy to go without food on a short-haul flight, some people’s bellies do start complaining on longer flights. It’s not a great idea to starve yourself during a longer journey, so you’ll probably need to [...]

With January’s flight sales marking a bright start to the new year, there’s no better time to be thinking about your travel plans for 2010.
It’s worth bearing in mind that long-haul flights are set to offer the best bang for your buck this year, so let your imagination run wild and think far and wide. [...]

If you’ve ever wasted hours of your life cramped up on rigid plastic airport benches,  eyeing up a motionless departures board, and longing for nothing more than to just… get … home… there is good news in store.  In the future you’ll be entitled to compensation for your airline delays.  And when we say compensation, [...]

The announcement that airlines will now be obliged to pay out for delays is good news indeed for passengers. It certainly eases the pain of hours stuck in the departure lounge and is particularly well timed as we head into the delay season that is Christmas. What it doesn’t do, sadly, is make getting through [...]

Flying is one of the largest travel costs you will while on the road. The age of cheap flights is mostly over and it has become harder to find the great flight deals that will let you jet off to some exotic location on a whim. While a lot of people like to take premium [...]

Insiders expose little-known facts the industry would rather you didn’t think about.
“Airport luggage scales often lie.”
It’s bad enough that the airlines charge a fee for overweight luggage, varying from $39 to $300 per bag industrywide. But it’s galling that they may also hit you with the fee by mistake.
At JFK last November, New York City’s [...]

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