Chilean ash cloud disrupts Australian flights

Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano has been erupting recently, sending an ash cloud over Australia – very similar to the one experienced in Europe in 2010. Experts concluded that the ash cloud was too low to avoid. This forced Australian airline Qantas to suspend all flights into and out

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Airbus unveils see-through plane and other futuristic tech

Aerospace company Airbus has unveiled a number of its radical plans for aircraft of the future, including an incredible see-through aeroplane, technology that would allow parents to read bedtime stories to their children at home and even a virtual golf course. Airbus said that other luxurious option

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Contortionist thief squeezes in a free trip

A six foot contortionist has been arrested in Spain this week after using his flexible skills to pilfer valuables from suitcases on a shuttle coach from the airport in Girona to Barcelona. The man, assisted by an accomplice who was also taken into Spanish police custody, would curl up inside a suitc

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England beaches are flying the Blue Flag

British holidaymakers can finally be as proud of their beaches as their Spanish and Greek equivalents as a whopping 70 English beaches are awarded the prestigious Blue Flag in 2011. In order for a beach to be awarded the Blue Flag, the water must be of a particularly high quality, the beach itself m

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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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