Singapore Airlines said on Monday it had found examples of recently identified wing cracks in all six of the Airbus A380s on which it carried out mandatory inspections, as a senior pilot issued reassurance over the superjumbo’s safety. The discovery of more instances of cracked wing components was expected after Airbus said last week it [...]
Exactly a year ago, we wrote about the opening of the world’s highest restaurant, the absurdly-spelt At.mosphere located on the 123rd floor of the Burj Khalifa – the world’s tallest building, just in case you’re impervious to shameless marketing. Yes, what was originally to be called the Burj Dubai has featured heavily in recent promotions [...]
TripAdvisor, the world’s biggest travel website, has named the 25 best hotels in the world. The site’s annual Traveller’s Choice awards, based on millions of user reviews submitted to the site, named the Phoenix Resort in San Pedro, Belize as the world’s best. The site features 255 reviews of the hotel, with 251 giving the [...]
Aircraft British Airways Boeing 747-400 Route London Heathrow LHR to New York JFK Class Economy class, seat 46c Seat pitch and seat width 31½ inches and 17½ inches seat width Seat configuration Three-four-three Luggage allowance One bag no more than 23kg checked in luggage and one piece of hand luggage also no more than 23kg [...]
Poland is looking for an investor to turn the “Wolf’s Lair” of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler into a tourist attraction. The ruins of Hitler’s fortress complex deep in the woodlands of north eastern Poland is famed as the site of an assassination attempt on Hitler by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and popularised by the outstanding [...]
You may have missed it last night, or are only just waking up to this story this morning, but there’s been a significant cruise ship disaster off the coast of Italy. The vessel, which is operated by Costa Cruises, had sailed from Civitavecchia near Rome on Friday on a regular weekly Mediterranean cruise when it [...]
Sydney-based Australian Business Traveller magazine have announced the results of their reader-voted 23rd annual business travel awards, as Josh Noel writes. A hotel executive recently told me that flying Singapore Airlines is so pleasant, losing a bag became a positive experience. Airline staff apologised profusely, delivered the bag within a few hours and gave him [...]
It’s January. It’s that time of year when every travel website, newspaper lifestyle magazine and stereotyped chick on a travel show offer us their unique and oracle-like insight into what’s hot and what’s not in travel this new year. Here on Travel Snitch, we try to have a look at what everyone has to say, [...]
This interesting blog by Peter Blair appeared today on the Huffington Post. We thought it was worth even more coverage. As I sit here in Heathrow Terminal 4 having just finished eating some sub-par airport food with tiny cutlery, I can’t help wondering if we’ve done more in the last decade to create a perception [...]
Sydney, Dubai and London seemed to steal the headlines early in 2012 with their New Year firework displays. A multi-million dollar firework display heralded in the new year in Sydney, while the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, was illuminated in Dubai. Celebrations were held across Europe, with some 250,000 gathering to watch spectacular fireworks [...]