Reserve JFK Parking, SeaTac and Orlando Airport Parking

Transportation

Tips and advice on transportation options for traveling around the world.

Ryanair’s Controversial Sexy Ads Banned in the UK

Ornella February ©PA A recent Ryanair print advertising campaign has stirred up a ton of controversy in the UK. The campaign features scantily-clad models/Ryanair flight attendants in lingerie along with the headline “Red Hot Fares & Crew”. The ads sparked a string of complaints from the public and from members of various airlines’ flight crews. [...]

Airline Passengers Stranded in Paradise

Boeing 747-400 ©Aaron Escobar Tourists and locals alike were stranded in paradise when Virgin Australia was forced to cancel all flights from mainland Australian to the Cocos Islands. The airline cancelled flights due to the lack of aviation fuel in the Australian Indian Ocean territory. Aviation fuel supplier Air BP has not been unable to [...]

Hello Kitty Takes Over the Skies

Hello Kitty ©Wikimedia Commons In what can only be explained as a mission to bring more cuteness to the skies, Taiwanese airline EVA Air has decked out three of its jets with a Hello Kitty exterior. The airline’s new taipei-based jets will operate for at least a year flying to Sapporo, Guam, Seoul, Fukuoka, Hong [...]

Coach Class No Longer the Culprit of Blood Clotting

You are now encouraged to move about the cabin © Gene Eaton “Economy class syndrome”, the nickname that suggests Coach seating causes blood clots, is in fact not true. New guidelines state that the real risk of deep vein thrombosis during plane travel is from not getting up and moving around enough during long flights. [...]

Virgin Galactic Space Ship Reservations On the Books for 2013

Specifications of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo © virgingalactic.com Virgin Galactic is aiming to become the first commercial space liner with the first flights proposed for 2013. The company’s SpaceShipTwo will zoom to an altitude of 62 miles (100 kilometers) to the edge of space, then freefall to Earth to give passengers a few minutes of weightlessness, [...]

Poll Reveals Most Reassuring Airline Pilot Accent

Cockpit ©kudumomo A recent poll conducted for the Business Travel Show in London found that a pilot with a Home Counties accent to be the most reassuring accent for passengers. A Cockney accent was chosen as the least trustworthy accent, followed by a Midlands accent. Given the results of the poll, airline expert and travel [...]

Spirit Airlines Charging Passengers New “Unintended Consequences Fee”

Spirit A320 ©PhillipC A change in Department of Transportation regulations is being blamed for a new $2 Sprint Airlines fee. The regulation requires airlines to allow passengers to change their flight within 24 hours of booking without paying a penalty. The new fee has been dubbed the “Department of Transportation Unintended Consequences Fee,” by Spirit [...]

Hong Kong Tourists Trapped in Gondolas Over New Years Holiday

Ngong Ping 360 ©Robert S. Donovan In what has to be a sign of bad luck for the upcoming year, about 800 passengers on Hong Kong’s Ngong Ping 360 gondola were left hanging in the air for over 30 minutes during the very busy Chinese New Year Holiday. The passengers had to endure temperatures below [...]

Airlines Start Posting Airfares With All Mandatory Fees and Taxes

You are now flying the honest skies © √oхέƒx If you searched for airline fares as of Tuesday and noticed that fares looked significantly higher from Monday, don’t be fooled. The Department of Transportation’s new price advertising rule requires airlines to display fares including any mandatory per passenger taxes and fees. For the consumer, this makes [...]

Kazakhstan Subway System Opens After 23 Years

Station stop in Kazakhstan © architizer.com Last month, Kazakhstan’s first ever subway system opened after 23 years of playing the waiting game. Construction started in 1988, but the project came to a halt after the fall of the USSR. Twenty-three years later, construction started again. The subway’s aesthetics are almost a throwback to a golden [...]

Multiple Flights Diverted Due to Solar Storm

Solar flares from the Sun © telegraph.co.uk Delta, Qantas and Air Canada diverted flights yesterday evening due to a very powerful solar radiation storm. The blast of energy from the storm can cause fluctuations in Earth’s magnetic field, temporarily affecting navigation, power, satellite and communications systems, according to the space weather center. Most of the flights [...]

Video of Planes Landing in Strong Crosswinds Goes Viral

Landing © ianmunroe Warning; if you are a nervous flyer, you probably shouldn’t click through on the link and watch this video. A video taken of airplanes landing (or attempting to land) at Dusseldorf International Airport with winds of 35 knots, and gusts of up to 55 knots is creating quite a stir online. The [...]

Woman Claims Airline Lost Deceased Husband’s Ashes

Luggage © cpmcpm72 En route to England after the funeral for her husband, Angeline O’Grady had plans to scatter his ashes in his native land. But getting the box containing his ashes there, was the difficult part. O’Gray was stopped by TSA agents while carrying the box of ashes through security. After the agents wouldn’t [...]

Italian Officials Proposing Ban on Cruise Ships

The Costa Concordia, in the harbor of the Tuscan island Giglio  © smh.com.au In response to the Costa Concordia cruise ship that capsized last week, Italian officials are calling for a ban on cruise ships sailing along sensitive areas of the Italian coastline. Italy’s Environment Minister, Corrado Clini, has promised to protect the coast and [...]

Tall Flier Attempting to Appeal Extra Airline Fees for Legroom

Being tall comes with a price  © Sterlic At 6’7″, Malcom Johnson, along with many other tall fliers, find it difficult to sustain airplane flights without feeling cramped and uncomfortable. For years, Johnson has been flying from his native Canada to France at least twice a year, and settles for the fees imposed with extra [...]

Love Is In The Air Thanks to wemetonaplane.com

Champagne Stems ©dps If you failed to get the digits of that seat mate you really hit it off with on your last flight you now have a chance to reconnect and spark a romance on the ground. After meeting his own girlfriend on a flight, Will Scully-Power started the website wemetonaplane.com to help others [...]

Flight Diverted Due to “Unruly” Passengers in First Class Requesting Champagne

Champagne Stems ©dps A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta to Costa Rica had to make an unexpected landing in Tampa, Florida, after a couple in first class began demanding food and Champagne and refused to sit down. The couple, Peter and Gabriele Strohmaier of Dusseldorf, Germany were forced to disembark the plane in Tampa. [...]

Temporary Apartment Furnished by IKEA, Opens in Paris Metro

IKEA’s temporary apartment in the Paris Metro © IKEA France Facebook.com Last week, the Auber station in the Paris Metro was transformed into a 3-D version of an IKEA catalog. With just 581 square feet to work with, the company wanted to demonstrate how a confined space could be furnished. Five tenants lived in the space [...]

Cheap Flights For Anyone Brave Enough on Friday the 13th

Cruising the Sky ©lrargerich According to travel trends fliers are a superstitious bunch. According to flight comparison site jetcost.co.uk, last year there was a 24 percent drop in flight bookings on any Friday the 13th. And it looks like travelers are just getting more superstitious, this year flight bookings on Friday the 13th have dropped [...]

10 Essential Tips to Improve Your Hitchhiking Game

After hitching all over the world, Turner Wright reveals his 10 best secrets for improving your hitchhiking game.

Chinese Travelers Stray Away From Group Travel

Chinese Tourists ©feserc Enormous Chinese tour groups traipsing around Europe and the USA could soon be a thing of the past, according to a new tourism report. ITB World Travel Trends Report suggested that the change in Chinese travel habits is due to the rising number of educated young professionals in China. These young Chinese [...]

Company Offering Tours of London’s Most Hated Highway

M25 Junction 8 to 11 ©Highways Agency Is the M25 London’s version of Route 66? A bus company in the UK would like you to think that. Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company is offering coach tours of the 117-mile orbital highway for visitors to the UK. The M25–mocked as ‘Britain’s biggest car park’ [...]

Cruise Line Recreating Titanic’s Disastrous Voyage

MS Balmoral ©.curt. In what is probably the most disastrous travel package gimmick of the century, a British company is marking the 100-year anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking with a sold-out cruise following the Titanic’s exact route to America. Hopefully this ship is bringing more lifeboats… Two thousand “disaster voyeurists” will be departing on the [...]

Snakes (almost) on a Plane!

snake ©calebdzahnd Buenos Aires International Airport in Argentina intercepted what could have been a disastrous (or action packed) airplane incident when they detained a Czech man trying to board a plane with almost 250 poisonous snakes and endangered reptiles in his baggage. Karel Abelovsky, 51, was en route to Spain when airport officials made him [...]

TSA Agent in Vegas Confiscates Threatening Cupcake

Cupcake ©ms.Tea In what can only be explained as an act of hypoglycemic lunacy a TSA security agent at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas confiscated a cupcake from a passenger at security. According to Rebecca Hains, the TSA agent told her that her cupcake’s frosting was enough like a gel to violate TSA restrictions [...]

Find Your Next Seat Mate On Facebook

Airplane Seats ©S Baker Very soon you won’t have to worry about getting an annoying seat mate during your next long flight. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is rolling out a service which will allow passengers to use Facebook and LinkedIn to pick their seat mates on a flight. KLM has dubbed the service “social seating” [...]

Bring Home Your Own Little Piece of an Airplane

Airplane Graveyard ©beckstei Looking for a unique reminder of you last trans-atlantic flight? How about a piece of the plane? Hold on, now before you go ripping pieces of the airplane interior off during your next flight, the bits of planes that are actually up for grabs are being recycled from decommissioned airplanes. Matt Mahler [...]

Mystery Odors Delay Two US Airways Flights

US Airways Express ©abdallahh This week US Airlines was plagued by bizarre scents in their aircraft cabins and in one case the odor sent aircraft crew to the hospital. When passengers on Flight 439 from Philadelphia to Las Vegas noticed a persistant strange odor they were switched to a different aircraft. The aircraft switch delayed [...]

American Airlines Workers Find Their Groove on the Runway

Signaling to the Plane ©ellenm1 Oblivious to American Airline’s impending declaration of bankruptcy, workers at Chicago O’Hare got their groove on in a choreographed line dance on the tarmac. The boogie was caught by YouTube user taylormcgraw on November 28. There was a camera crew filming the dance, so maybe the workers will be making [...]

Passenger Sues Over Deadly Airplane Food

American Airlines ©Simon_sees Airplane food is bad, but is it lethal? American Airlines and the catering company that supplied the food to the airline–Sky Chefs–is being sued by a passenger, claiming that the food on a flight from Barcelona to New York caused food poisoning which later brought on a fatal heart attack. According to [...]

« Go Back — Keep Looking »

TWITTER with US



SUBSCRIBE to VAGABONDISH.COM

Via E-mail: