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Unless you are a tiny child or a midget, flying long-haul in economy is the stuff of nightmares. It’s no surprise that economy class passngers try and drink themselves into a drooling stupor. Read More…
It’s no secret that a lot of people in South Africa are hoping to milk the Fifa World Cup tournament in June by jacking up their prices. From householders looking to rent out their homes at extortionate rates to guesthouse owners, restraurants and airlines (the latter are now to be probed by the Competition Commission), a lot of people involved in the local tourism industry are expecting a fat payday come June.
In short, it’s revolting. Read More…
If airlines are another index of boom and bust, then this week’s announcement that Japan Airlines is broke and filing for bankruptcy protection is a sign that the world’s financial troubles are far from over.
Some 15 600 jobs – one third of the airline’s workforce – are to be canned as the carrier struggles to stay aloft. Read More…
Regional feeder airline SA Express has opened new routes from Lubumbashi to Kinshasa and Mbuji Mayi in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Read More…
Airbus has delivered its 6 000th aircraft – an A380 double-decker to Emirates – since the company began building aeroplanes 40 years ago. Read More…
Short answer is soon. Maybe.
Surfing the web from 35 000 feet is something of a Holy Grail, at least it is for a sizeable chunk of the world’s population. Broadband web access in flight is the Internet’s new frontier and and there are some brave people out their on their ponies. Read More…
December 5, 1958. A southeaster has whipped Table Bay into a fury of whitecaps and Table Mountain lies under a thick tablecloth of cloud. My grandfather, Sydney, has braved the wind to go down to the docks to take a picture of a ship he loved. The Union Castle liner, Arundel Castle, is about to sail from Cape for the last time and she is decked out in bunting for her farewell. Read More…
The number of incidents in which birds hit aircraft in flight last year could top 10 000, according to US aviation authorities.
Associated Press reports that this figure would represent around 27 strikes a day in the US alone. Read More…
There is not much that really surprises these days from the land that gave us Hello Kitty, the consumption of poisonous blowfish and other oddities such as bukkake. Read More…
Our short Christmas break down on the muddy banks of the Breede River was less about waterskiing and more about sleeping, reading and eating. One reason for this – although no-one’s actually admitting it for fear of being called chicken – is that the large Zambezi shark named Nyaminyami which last year was hooked and tagged 30km upstream of the sea, has not been seen for some time.
This makes waterskiers nervous. Still, it’s hard to see how a Zambezi shark would mistake a skier for a seal, but then the Breede’s waters are murky and there’s no accounting for what sharks might or might not do. Read More…
