How to fight jet lag?

Useful infographic on how to face jet lag before, during and after travel.

Easyjet: check-in only on-line

From 30/04/2013 Easyjet has implemented the only on-line check-in for all its flights. That means airport desks are only for baggabe drop.

Check-in can be done from 30 days to 2 hours in advance.

Go! Airlines routes

It looks like Go! Airlines has more routes and destinations, so probably we will decide to go for it. I will keep searching ;)

When should you be buying your ticket?

I have found this today and I can subscribe almost up to 80%. I do not agree too much that prices can rise up to three times per day. I guess they mean low cost carriers do!

Anyway, I think this gives you a clear idea of when buying your flight tickets. Yep, last minute offers barely exist!!!

Via Angieslist

Budapest Airport is closed

What a day! If we did not have enough with all the flight cancellations due to the snow accross Europe, Budapest's airport has been shut due to an electrical problem in the control tower. Flights have been cancelled or diverted to Viena and flights are not expected to resume until tomorrow morning (10 am for the moment).

Check the website before travelling to the airport.

How Hobbits Fly

After the amazing Hobbit-themed security video by Air New Zealand, here comes the Hobbit plane:

The Story of Pan Am

When flying was (more) glamorous and (more) exciting.

Ugradeable with Flying Club miles

If you wish to make a booking with Virgin and you want to upgrade with your personal frequent flyer Flying Club miles, these are the qualifying classes:

– Economy: Y,B,L,R

– Premium: W,S

Please remember there are always exceptions limited availability so contact  your travel agent for further information.

My flight status

The best way to know if your flight is departin on time due to strikes, vulcanos, snow, etc... is checking in the airlines website. Here are some flight status checkers I will be adding more as soon as I need them:

A
Air Europa
Air France
Alitalia
Amadeus up to date information of all airlines working with Amadeus
American Airlines

B
British Airways

C
Continental Airlines

E
Easyjet
Emirates
Etihad Airways

F
Finnair

I
Iberia

K
KLM

L
Lufthansa

N
Norwegian

Q
Qantas
Qatar Airways

R
Royal Air Jordania
Ryanair

S
Spanair
Swiss

Adverse weather conditions in Scotland

The strong winds afecting Scotland are making really difficult for planes to leave, so before going to the airport, check the latest information at the BBC website or online with the airline your are flying with.

Winds are expected to be ut to 90mph and some offices have been evacuated for security reasons.

The Airbus of 2050?

Is this the Airbus we will be enjoying on 2050? Is this reality or utopy?

What about working on the pitch space first?

Plane lands without wheels

Warsaw airport remained closed today due to an emergency landing. This plane from the airline LOT landed without wheels after one hour going in circles above Warsaw dumping excess fuel.

 

Luckily, none of the 250 people on board suffered any injury. The landing seems pretty normal, apart from some smoke. Maybe some of the pilots having working previously in the army has to do with the safe landing!

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Airliner Splits In Two

It´s quite unusual to read about airplane's accidents as this is the safest way of transport. But it is even more unusual that happening something like this, there are only three people in the hospital and no casualties:

The Caribbean Airlines plane was trying to land in Georgetown, Guyana from New York when it went out of the runway. For more information, click here.