Pink flamingo forces closure of runway at Manchester Airport

Manchester Airport staff were left with quite the predicament yesterday when a flamingo was spotted on a runway. The pink-feathered bird forced closure of one of Manchester’s runways for five hours whilst crew attempted to get the bird to move on. Police were called, who attempted to capture the b

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Brit travellers “not as green” as Belgian and French

According to a poll by Eurostar, British people are not as likely to worry about the environmental impacts of air travel than their French and Belgian counterparts. The poll of more than 3000 adults from Belgium, France and the UK, found that up to 55% of British nationals take up to three holidays

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Fry away with Thomson as airline uses vegetable oil to power flights

Thomson Airways is due to become Britain’s very first biofuel airline when it launches flights from Birmingham to Palma, Mallorca from the 28th of July 2011. The flight will operate on a 50/50 mixture of hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids – extracted from used cooking oil – and standard Jet

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Have Facebook and Twitter killed off the humble postcard?

A new survey of 2,000 people by internet travel firm ebookers has discovered that four in ten holidaymakers no longer bother sending a postcard back to family and friends. The same poll also found that a whopping 50 per cent of British holidaymakers check social networking sites such as Facebook and

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Elk of a save!

Zoo keepers at Pocatello Zoo, Idaho were astonished yesterday as they watched four-year-old elk “Shooter” stare reluctantly at his water trough before fishing out a struggling marmot which had got itself trapped in the water. The elk, a huge male that some keepers at the zoo are often reluctant

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Malaysia Airlines ban children from First Class compartments

Malaysia Airlines are set to ban children from travelling in First Class on their flights on the Airbus A380 and the new Boeing 747-400 fleet. The airline said the ban was prompted by numerous complaints about crying babies and irritating small children in First Class on their flights. From now on,

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Astonishing man-made “Supertrees” erected in Singapore

Architects in Singapore are in the process of erecting 18 “Supertrees” made of steel and concrete in order to give the Marina Bay area a hefty splash of greenery. The man-made structures are designed to look like giant trees with a gigantic 50 metre concrete trunk, a huge canopy weighing between

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JFK’s Runway 4 turtle-y closed… For 15 minutes

New York’s JFK Airport had to close a runway yesterday for 15 minutes – but not because of the weather, technical faults or even striking staff – a group of migrating turtles crossing the runway were to blame. Around 150 diamondback turtles, mainly females, were spotted crossing the tarmac of

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New supersonic passenger jet cuts London to NY flights to just TWO HOURS

British firm HyperMach has unveiled its concept for a new supersonic passenger jet capable of flying from London to New York in just two hours – half the time of the previous fastest passenger jet Concorde. The SonicStar plane was unveiled at the Paris Air Show last week, with HyperMach announcing

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Smoking ban in New York “a joke”

New York’s recently imposed ban on smoking in public places has been branded a ‘joke’ after only one ticket has been issued in the first month of the new law. The new legislation apparently covers 1700 parks and 14 miles of coastline, as well as inner-city New York. However, only one ticket ha

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