It’s No Laughing Matter For Real Life Married Pilots…

Two married pilots have become the butt of some rather funny jokes following the success of BBC comedy series ‘Come Fly With Me’. Captain Jonathan and Debi Peskett are a husband and wife team of pilots who work for bmibaby and are based at Cardiff airport, but have become a laughing stock amongs

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Could This Be The Funniest In-Flight Entertainment Ever?

If you’ve ever found the in flight entertainment to be a little sub standard or just ‘plane’ boring, then this could be the flight for you. On 12th March 2011 a trio of comedians will attempt to entertain passengers on a British Airways (BA) flight for two and a half hours in a bid to [&hellip

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There’s A Rat In My Cabin What Am I Gonna Do…?

Passengers flying from Seattle to Denver recently found their flight delayed due to an unexpected passenger. A rat was seen scurrying through the cabin of the Alaska Airline plane just before take off and passengers and crew were ordered to disembark until the rodent could be found. A second aircraf

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British Airways Attempts Mission Impossible With Heston Blumenthal…

Top celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal attempts the challenge of making airline food taste good in his forthcoming Channel 4 series ‘Heston’s Mission Impossible’. He teams up with British Airways in what the airline themselves confess is a ‘mission impossible’ to try and make food taste good

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Traveller Takes Insurance Company To Court And Wins Ash Cloud Payout

Insurers could be forced to pay out thousands of pounds in compensation after a customer recently won his case in a small claims court that the disruption caused by last year’s ash cloud, could be classed as ‘weather related’. Hundreds of customers made claims following the disruption of their

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Paranormal Activity Hits Latest Attraction At Thorpe Park

Spooky goings on have forced a major UK tourist attraction to relocate one of its latest rides. Exhilaration and spine tingling excitement are all par for the course when visiting theme parks, however workers at Thorpe Park in Chertsey, Surrey have reported feeling sudden chills, seeing objects movi

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They’ll Spare Your Blushes But Will They Save Your Life?

A new body scanner is set to be trialled in three US airports after complaints that an earlier version was an ‘invasion of people’s privacy’. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has introduced new software that will only show the outline of the person being scanned and not the rev

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Climber Falls Off The Top Of A Mountain And Lands On His Feet

A Scottish climber has had what can only be described as a miraculous escape after falling 1,000 feet down the side of a mountain. Adam Potter, 36, from Glasgow was in a group of four travellers when he lost his footing and fell. They had just arrived at the summit of Sgurr Choinnich Mor, five [&hel

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Mystery Piano Takes Centre Stage On Sandbank

A 650lb grand piano has mysteriously appeared on a sandbank in Miami’s Biscayne Bay. It is strategically place upright at the highest point on the bank, ensuring it doesn’t disappear at high tide. This could suggest that it may have been placed there deliberately, however the reason why is still

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Dragon Bannatyne Slays TripAdvisor

Dragon’s Den panellist and business entrepreneur Duncan Bannatyne is set to spearhead a campaign against what he calls the ‘despicable and cowardly’ TripAdvisor website. Bannatyne has sparked the campaign after the travel review site refused to remove a review that compared his Charlton House

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