| The Safest Places in the Plane Determined (30 Jun. 2008) - More and more people flying with the world touristic boom cause more and more cases of aerophobia. And each plane crash adds people with this kind of disease, because each catastrophe is getting announced in the mass media. Well, the scientists have analyzed all the cases when there were survivors in a plane crash and have figured out the safest places in the plane. |
| Low-budget airlines are nearly bankrupt (10 Jun. 2008) - The airlines of the world experience hard times, while the oil prices beat the tops of the price records. There are already lots of bankruptcies at this market and this is not the end. The experts tell that only those companies that will change their strategies will make it through. |
| Airline passengers need telephone and internet more often (31 May. 2008) - The rising activity in the field of tourism and the rising competition makes the airlines and other companies engaged directly and indirectly in the touristic branch to think about the services and their quality level, because the demands and expectations of the travelers grow and those who are unable to get their offers conform to the demand will simply lose. |
| Americans refuse from flying (30 May. 2008) - Lots of Americans refuse from flying and the Travel Industry Association has calculated the total loss of the industry. The figures are amazing. But the list of those have lost incomes is also an interesting one. Not only the airlines lose money when a passenger refuses to fly, but also local and federal budgets in the form of taxes, hotels and even restaurants. |
| New time zone adaptation method (27 May. 2008) - The scientists have revealed an interesting way of accommodating to the new timezone for the long-distance travelers. The idea is to make your body to accommodate in extreme mode, what shortens the accommodation period. |
| Headed to America? Leave your notebook and cellphone at home (16 May. 2008) - The American security rules are becoming really crazy. Now they have the right to copy all the data from the notebooks and cellphones or other electronic storage devices of the travelers entering USA. Well, what if the data is a company secret or simply your private letters to somebody? The tourist flow should really be negatively influenced. |
| A passenger has sued the airline for the flight spent in the toilet. (14 May. 2008) - A passenger of an American flight has sued the company for 2 million dollars because he had to sit in the lavatory during the flight and has been forced by the pilot to give his seat to the stewardess. |
| Aerophobia - traveler's sickness (8 May. 2008) - Aerophobia - is a serious sickness of the travelers. With the development and quick increase of the air traffic in the world many people simply have to travel with the planes on business trips and other inevitable reasons, while they are in panic of the flights. Some of them solve the problem with alcohol, though several airlines have already prohibited alcohol aboard because of the frequent unsuitable behavior of the passengers. But the psychologists tell that the key to the problem is the search of the real reason of the fear. |
| Chief-cooks will serve the first class airline passengers. (26 Apr. 2008) - The competition between the airlines forces these to make curious moves to obtain their share of passengers. Now they have decided to invite gourmet specialists to cook the first class food for the passengers. However, not all the airlines are engaged in this race. |
| Biometric scanners in the European airports this summer (25 Apr. 2008) - The madness continues also in Europe and the automated scanning machines will perform the border control completely without the help of the border control officers. It is still a test project, but the perspective seems to be frightening. |
| European Union introduces exams for the air carriers (23 Apr. 2008) - The European Union sets up the new regulations for the European flights. Now all the airlines that are performing their flights to European countries will have to pass a kind of safety audit. |
| Full body scanning in the USA airports. (18 Apr. 2008) - The full scanning of the human body with the scanner working on millimeter length waves that allows to form a 3-D holographic image of the human body has already began in the USA. |
| The new travel passports are dangerous (10 Apr. 2008) - The new biometric passports, in spite of the assurances of many governments of the world, that they are absolutely secure, are in fact crackable. A group of American hackers have demonstrated a device that could read and even write data to the passport. The chips in the passport could even be used to create and explosive device. |
| 10 rules that will help you to keep luggage and nerve cells (9 Apr. 2008) - Here are 10 quite simple rules that would help you to save your nerve cells in the airports and to keep your luggage safe, lowering the probability that it gets lost or some of it's contents disappear. |
| The passengers of the European flights are allowed to use mobile phones during the flight (8 Apr. 2008) - The topic of mobile telecommunication became a thrilling one at the end of 2007 and at the beginning of 2008. Now, the European Committee has allowed the usage of the mobile phones during the flights inside of the European Union, what gives the green light to the airlines to install the necessary equipment so that they can offer this kind of service to the passengers already this year. |
| The Schengen Air Space is getting wider (31 Mar. 2008) - The citizens of the new members of the Schengen Zone are able now to use their right to travel in the whole European Area without passport control. The most suitable means of transport are planes and due to technical difficulties that was settled up only this Sunday. |
| Passengers will have to show their piercing. (30 Mar. 2008) - The checking procedure for the passengers having piercing on their bodies will be changed after a complaint of a passenger that was forced to take off a permanent piercing with the help of pincers. |
| The new Heathrow airport terminal became a nightmare for the passengers. (28 Mar. 2008) - The new fifth London Heathrow airport Terminal suffers serious difficulties right after the opening. The building has lasted 20 years and had cost 8,6 billion dollars. An in spite of the modern technologies engaged in the new functionalities, the terminal has failed to function properly. |
| New border crossing rules in USA (26 Mar. 2008) - The new security measures in the USA airports suppose that now all 10 fingers of the guests will be collected twice - at the entering the country and when the guest leaves. The new system should be more effective, according to the security officers, but many tourists will surely refrain the fingerprinting as the measure that seems to be affecting the human rights, |
| A passenger plane pilot has missed the landing in a sleep (18 Mar. 2008) - A pilot has decided to take a short sleep break during the flight over the Pacific, though it's duration was only 30 minutes. The plane just flew further and the ground control dispatchers have noticed that the plane does not change the altitude, when it was already time to perform the landing. |
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