Fly mid-week in the summer holidays to save money says Which?

New research by consumer advice group Which? has shown that families can avoid the main brunt of the traditional school summer holidays price mark-up by flying and returning on mid-week flights instead of waiting until the weekend. According to Which? travellers can ‘save an average of £339 by de

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New airport scanner to ‘sniff’ travellers

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has unveiled a prototype of a new airport scanning system that they claim will drastically decrease pre-flight security check waiting times for travellers. This sensational new technology is said to actually have the ability to “sniff” traveller

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Monarch removes debit card charges

Monarch became the first airline to remove the now popular percentage charge on debit card payments recently, lifting their 3.5 per cent charge of the booking total with immediate effect. Consumer group Which? and the Office of Fair Trading are saying that the steps taken by Monarch may put pressure

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Survey suggests airports provide more entertainment for kids

A new survey performed by Skyscanner has found that over half of people thought that airports do not provide adequate services for families with children, making travelling as a family considerably more difficult. Parents complained about not being able to get their children to settle upon finally b

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Being bilingual can stave off the onset of Alzheimer’s

Being bilingual and regularly using two languages can sharpen the mind, help with multitasking and even stave off the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. This is according to the work of cognitive neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok who was recently interviewed by the New York Times. According to Bialystok a

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Japanese tourists suffer from ‘Paris syndrome’

Roughly one million Japanese tourists travel to France every year for their holidays, but a small minority of those travellers are said to suffer from a sensational psychiatric infliction known as ‘Paris syndrome’. It is said that some Japanese tourists – as many as a dozen a year – are so o

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Five Stars at 12,000 Feet

St Regis Lhasa is Tibet’s first ever five star hotel, but it is not your average five star hotel. This Chinese Government owned luxury complex rests a whopping 12,000 feet above sea level. Set in the famous Tibetan mountains, this hotel – the highest in the world – has been built near an activ

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Turtle-y busted!

An incredible 451 turtles with a re-sale value of over £20,000 were found stashed in a number of suitcases on a flight from Bangladesh to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport last week. The person allegedly responsible for the attempted smuggling was able to make an escape into Bangkok without attempti

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Drunk Passenger Brings His Cruise To An Abrupt Halt

A cruise ship passenger, who was enjoying his Caribbean adventure so much he tried to delay the vessel’s arrival back port, will no doubt be regretting his actions now. Ryan Ehlert’s attempt to delay the vessel went completely overboard as in a drunken stupor, he released the anchor of Holland A

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Transplant Plane Crash Lands Into Birmingham Airport

Birmingham airport was closed on Friday following the crash of a light aeroplane carrying a liver for a transplant operation as it attempted to land in thick fog. The privately-operated, two-seater Cessna was coming in to land just after 3.30pm and crashed just as it hit the runway before being engu

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