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Cranky Flier Brett Snyder got a sneak peak at Emirates‘ new A380 recently, and this quick video explores the one thing everyone is wondering about: How’s the shower?!
It doesn’t look too big, but you know it’ll be nice and clean: The airline plans to have two dedicated “shower attendants” on every flight to clean up […]

Once again I’m sitting in an airport lounge waiting out an unfolding weather situation. There are a number of possibilities for my trip today.
1) Flights are delayed (currently 90 minutes delay for the first of my 4 flights and lengthening) but I fly as planned.2) I fly part of the trip as booked and […]

Starting September 21, Singapore Airlines will be flying all business class across the Pacific from Singapore to both Newark and Los Angeles. And to make that 19-hour flight a little easier, your seat will be about the size of a Honda.
Each of the 100 super-recliners on this specially outfitted A340-500 is 30 inches wide and […]

This week we’re mapping the top spots in China to be faster, higher and stronger.
The wee girls of gymnastics could get lost in Beijing National Indoor Stadium, also the sleek, glassed-in home of handball and trampoline. (Did you know trampolining has been an Olympic sport since 2000? Our childhoods were not in vain!)
Located just north […]

Continuing the trend of foreign carriers that are doing justfine despite doom and gloom in the US aviation market, Copa Airlines is adding new service to cities across South America and the Caribbean and will add six new planes to its fleet by the end of this year.
All the new routes will be out of […]

After the horrible first few days that spawned YouTube videos and Flash games, it seems the new Terminal 5 at Heathrow is finally starting to function like your average airport terminal. So what’s the play for British Airways? Hype that mediocrity in some new ads!
The campaign involves photos of real passengers using T5 combined with […]

As you know, our fare widget appears on several airport web sites, including Dayton International. Well, yesterday we got a call from the Dayton Airport asking if we could help a passenger in distress. Seems that Airtran had cancelled her flight to Charlotte, but she absolutely had to get there last night for a […]

New England is home to the largest population of Cape Verdean immigrants and descendents of immigrants in the country. Celebrate this tiny Atlantic outpost at the Onset Cape Verdean Festival on Saturday, northeast of New Bedford, just south of Cape Cod.
The archipelago off the west coast of Africa has given us Damon Dash and the […]

The super-scary, walks-on-land, razor-toothed snakehead fish–that’s so frightening that even a dead one threw Lincolnshire, England into a panic in February–has once again washed up on American shores. And it’s coming to get you, bedroom communities of Upstate New York!
In Wawayanda, just south of Catskill Park, officials have ordered that any snakeheads must be shot […]

When I visited Beijing in late 2001, I certainly knew more about authentic Chinese food than the average American, but classes in Chinese cooking hadn’t prepared me for what turned out to be the food adventure of a lifetime. This was before my food-blogger-with-digital-camera days, so I couldn’t photograph my Beijing experiences, but plenty […]