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Crazed Man’s Vow To Petrified Passengers ‘You Will All Die’ As He Attempts To Open Exit Door In Mid-Air
Petrified passengers on a London-bound flight from Melbourne via Hong Kong froze in their seats as a crazed man ran down the aisle of the Qantas jet screaming: ‘You will all die!’ Yelling and praying in a foreign language, the maniac threatened to kill himself along with fellow passengers on the
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British Airways Flight Makes Emergency Landing Minutes After Leaving Heathrow
A British Airways jumbo jet which left Heathrow airport on Saturday 2nd October was forced into making an emergency landing only minutes after taking off. The Boeing 747 flight bound for New York was carrying 296 people on board and was grounded after a warning light in the cockpit indicated one of
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Police Warn Holidaymakers Of Online Scam Artists!
Following a large increase in fraudulent advertisements, holidaymakers have been warned to exercise extreme caution when renting property online. Research carried out by a government-backed initiative aimed at increasing awareness of internet scams, Get Safe Online, revealed that one in three online
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New York Waves Goodbye To Puffing In Public
As un-cool as it is nowadays, there are still a considerable amount of smokers who enjoy getting away from stringent Great Britain to a more relaxed atmosphere where sitting in a bar with a cigarette in hand is the norm! However Foreign Countries are now taking up this health-conscious approach by b
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Easyjet Insures Against Collapse
Low-cost airline, Easyjet has switched financial protection for its package holidays from the Travel Trust Association to an insurance-based scheme with International Passenger Protection (IPP). Easyjet is the first low-cost airline to take IPP up on the scheme which will protect its package holiday
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Aegean Cat Stops With A Thud
British Holidaymakers enjoying a day trip to the Greek island of Kos from the Turkish resort of Didim were left battered and bruised yesterday when the catamaran they were travelling on crashed twice as it approached the port. 25 people were taken to hospital out of the 209 tourists who were onboard
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When Hotels Fight Back
Many of us use social networking and travel review sites to find out what fellow travellers think about hotels before we book them. Some of us even write reviews on these sites when we return, whether our opinions are good or bad, we don’t hold back. Most people are quick to complain but not so [&
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Passport Checked – Oops Sorry No It Wasn’t!
In recent years, stringent security measures have been implemented across all UK airports, ensuring the threat of terrorism is kept to a minimum, as well as keeping illegal immigrant levels down. However Bournemouth Airport failed to comply with strict security measures recently as a plane-load of p
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Tripadvisor Faces Legal Dispute
The world’s largest travel review site, Tripadvisor, has come under scrutiny recently as hundreds of hoteliers and restaurateurs could bring legal action against the influential reviews website over claims that its reviews are defamatory. The persuasive travel site makes up the largest travel comm
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Cattle Class Taken To The Limit
A new style of aeroplane seat has been designed to allow airlines to squash even more passengers onto their planes. Known as the ‘Skyrider’ the seat was unveiled in America earlier this week and is designed to look like a riding saddle. Designers claim that the new shaped seat will not compromis
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