Category: Air Travel

Best Airline to Asia: Malaysia Airlines

Best Airline to Asia: Malaysia Airlines

By on Jan 20, 2006 in Air Travel, Asia, Magazines, Malaysia, Regions, Speciality Travel, Travel Equipment, Travel Literature

Malaysia Airlines has won the “Best Airline To Asia” award in the 2006 Travel Weekly Globe Awards polls conducted by Travel Weekly, a United Kingdom (UK) based magazine. Currently operating 111 aircraft, Malaysia Airlines’ fleet is one of the world’s youngest, flying more than 48,000 passengers to over 110 destinations across six continents everyday. Malaysia […]

Lufthansa Private Jet

Lufthansa Private Jet

By on Jan 18, 2006 in Air Travel, Europe, Germany, Regions, Speciality Travel, Western Europe

Global market leader NetJets and German airline Lufthansa have partnered to create Lufthansa Private Jet. This new service, available in Frankfurt and Munich, allows Lufthansa’s top 100 customers access to NetJets aircraft to make flight connections and offers NetJets US owners travelling to Europe seamless connections as well.

Food fight in the sky

Food fight in the sky

By on Jan 15, 2006 in Air Travel, Business Travel, Speciality Travel

There’s a food fight going on in the sky. Competing for premium customers who pay $5,000 and up for trans-Atlantic and Asian round trips, airlines are employing celebrity chefs and offering multicourse meals, long wine lists, caviar, crème brulée and goats’ cheese. Lufthansa have winter dishes conceived by Joachim Splichal, American Airlines are using Stephan […]

New business class seat designs

New business class seat designs

By on Jan 15, 2006 in Air Travel, Business Travel, Regions, Speciality Travel

Business class air travel is poised to move into a new era of supreme comfort as the major airlines gear up to install more luxurious seats. UK airlines British Airways and Virgin Atlantic have already launched fully flat business class beds, with the major US airlines set to follow. Such changes could pave the way […]

Raffles Resort Canouan Island jet package

Raffles Resort Canouan Island jet package

By on Jan 14, 2006 in Accommodation, Air Travel, Caribbean, Regions, Resorts, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Special Offers & Packages, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany

Raffles Resort Canouan Island has revealed its Jet Package for 2006, promising guests the most stylish transfers in the Caribbean. Raffles’ guests will be the envy of Barbados Airport as a resort representative whisks them straight through to their own private jet for a breathtaking twenty-minute flight over the Grenadines. For guests staying ten or […]

Oprah Winfrey private jet incident

Oprah Winfrey private jet incident

By on Jan 12, 2006 in Air Travel, California, Celebrities, North America, Regions, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany, USA

A bird collided with Oprah Winfrey’s GulfStream private jet this week. The plane’s windshield cracked, and the jet was forced to return to the airport in Santa Barbara, California to make an emergency landing. The jet will stay put at the airport until its windshield can be fixed. Oprah and her boyfriend, Stedman Graham, were […]

Yotel coming to London airports

Yotel coming to London airports

By on Jan 12, 2006 in Accommodation, Air Travel, Business Travel, Europe, Hotels, Regions, Speciality Travel, United Kingdom, Western Europe

Yotel, the radical hotel concept unveiled at last year’s World Travel Market, confirmed in December that it will open its first two hotels at London Heathrow and London Gatwick in mid-2006. The move follows a major investment by Kuwaiti-based IFA Hotels & Resorts, a subsidiary of International Financial Advisors (IFA). At Heathrow, the Yotel will […]

Business Traveler magazine awards

Business Traveler magazine awards

By on Jan 12, 2006 in Accommodation, Air Travel, Business Travel, Hotels, Regions, Speciality Travel, Worldwide

Business Traveler magazine asked 60,000 of its subscribers to choose the best in the business travel industry, as part of its 17th annual Business Traveler Awards, including their favorite airlines, airports and hotels around the world. Among the winners are Singapore Airlines (Airline with the Best First Class Service), Four Seasons (Best Luxury Hotel Chain […]

W New York and helicopter flight package

W New York and helicopter flight package

By on Jan 09, 2006 in Accommodation, Air Travel, Hotels, New York, North America, Regions, Special Offers & Packages, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany, USA

W New York offers savvy travelers refuge in a hectic world. And with the current offering from Metropolis Travel, you can combine a stay at the hotel with the thrill of a helicopter flight, flying past the Statue of Liberty, Wall Street, Brooklyn Bridge and more. Rates are $295 per room per night (January 2006), […]

New luxury airline in India?

New luxury airline in India?

By on Jan 07, 2006 in Air Travel, Asia, India, Regions, Speciality Travel

An Indian businessman, whose family dates back to the maharajahs, is to start a luxury airline that will target the rich and even have room for the servants. Srikanta Datta Narasimharaja Wodeyar, who lives in the  Mysore Palace,  southern India, believes his heritage and name will give the airline an aristocratic flavour that will set […]

Smoking can be a very expensive habit

Smoking can be a very expensive habit

By on Dec 30, 2005 in Air Travel, Celebrities, Speciality Travel, Travel Miscellany

The British media  is claiming  that Catherine Zeta-Jones recently went to a New York bash in a private jet, not because she sought privacy but instead because of her craving for nicotine.   The Mail on Sunday quoted a source as saying: She and Michael both smoke, and Catherine enjoys a cigarette when she flies, […]