Jetiquette | The Sky Steward

Picture the business traveler who has already passed through security only to discover a flight delay of several hours. At most airports, such a traveler has few options: wandering through the nearby shops and restaurants, waiting in a chair near the gate or, for a fee, waiting in an airline lounge.

This was the situation in which Rossana Magalhaes found herself recently when her flight was eight hours late leaving Atlanta.

“I walked and took naps sitting up, had [...]

* Traffic, measured in RPK, up 12.2 pct yr-on-yr

* IAG premium Dec traffic up 13.6 pct

* IAG non-premium traffic up 12 pct

* Ryanair Dec traffic down 5 pct

* IAG shares down 2.8 pct

LONDON, Jan 5 (Reuters) – International Airlines Group
, formed by the merger of BA and Iberia (Madrid: IBLA.MC – news) , posted a strong
rise in traffic in December, boosted by continued growth in
first and business class passenger numbers.

Traffic, measured in [...]

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Exchange students from Mosul University in Iraq spent a summer session at Angelo State University in 1990 before the invasion of Kuwait.

SAN ANGELO, Texas —
For a few weeks in the summer of 1990, 10 students from a university in Iraq attended Angelo State University, the start of a much anticipated international student exchange program.

That promising start was crushed by Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, launching what became the [...]

New horizons … Los Angeles airport.

Etihad’s first-class feasts

Chefs are in first-class kitchens on Etihad Airways flights to Sydney, Melbourne, London and Paris, and alongside the staff is a new menu from the airline’s Mezoon Grille.

The menu includes rib-eye steak, hammour and beef tenderloin. There’s a choice of desserts (warm cheese souffle, lemongrass panna cotta, triple chocolate cake, pandan sago with passionfruit coulis) or [...]

Apparently, getting the unfortunate honor of occupying the middle seat on an airplane is not just an inconvenience for some people, but a full-on traumatic experience. The company 3M wanted to know just how many people hated the middle seat, so it commissioned a survey. According to 3M, 56% of Americans would rather get stuck in traffic or go on a blind date than sit in the middle seat. One out of every two people said they would rather take [...]

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DORIC NIMROD AIR TWO LIMITED

Announcement of Asset Manager’s Report

THIS ANNOUNCEMENT AND THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS NOT FOR PUBLICATION, RELEASE, OR DISTRIBUTION, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY, IN, OR INTO, THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN OR ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH THE SAME WOULD BE UNLAWFUL. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN DOES NOT CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OF SECURITIES FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN OR ANY JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH AN OFFER OR SOLICITATION IS UNLAWFUL.

DORIC NIMROD AIR ONE LIMITED

Announcement of Asset Manager’s Report

LONDON (Reuters) – International Airlines Group , formed by the merger of BA and Iberia, posted a strong rise in traffic in December, boosted by continued growth in first and business class passenger numbers.

Traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometres, rose 12.2 percent versus December 2010, while passenger load factor — a measure of how well it fills its planes — was up 0.6 percentage points at 77.6 percent, it said on Thursday.

IAG said its first and business-class travel — the [...]

Australia may not be the Final Frontier, but the first class cabin in Qantas Airways’ remodeled A380 Airbus will certainly make you feel like it. Billed as the world’s largest passenger airliner, the A380 seats anywhere between 525 to 850 people at once, and is infamous for forcing airports to refit their facilities just to service it. While the A380s have been in service for a few years, Tecca and the Daily Mail couldn’t help noticing that the new first [...]

LONDON (Reuters) – International Airlines Group (ICAG.L), formed by the merger of BA and Iberia, posted a strong rise in traffic in December, boosted by continued growth in first and business class passenger numbers.

Traffic, measured in revenue passenger kilometres, rose 12.2 percent versus December 2010, while passenger load factor — a measure of how well it fills its planes — was up 0.6 percentage points at 77.6 percent, it said on Thursday.

IAG said its first and business-class travel — [...]

Hardly a week goes by without some new controversy surrounding the pending divorce of the so-called White House Gate Crashers, Tareq and Michaele Salahi. Tareq has been quoted as calling his wife a “groupie slut,” a “liar,” and a socialite who lived a lifestyle way beyond their means. Since Michaele fled their Hume, Virginia, home in mid-September, countless overblown and breathless stories have run on celebrity gossip blogs and websites. TMZ has led the pack by running dozens of snarky stories—all from the [...]

(MENAFN – Arab News) Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, has extended its South American network by linking Dubai with Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro, further broadening the airline’s reach across the Americas.

Emirates’ inaugural Flight 247 made its first landing at Galeão-Antonio Carlos Jobim International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, where it was initiated by a traditional water cannon salute.

The flight, operated by Argentine Capt. Marcos Medina, then departed for its first onwards connection to Buenos Aires, [...]

By Nelia G. Neri

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

CHICAGO has a special place in my heart. It was my destination on my very first trip to the USA when I was an impressionable 22-year old. I was there to train as a dietician in one of the biggest hospitals in the city. It was an unforgettable eight months in the land of milk and honey. Since that time I had gone back only once, with husband and four sons in tow, but [...]

PARIS: An Airbus operated by France’s Aigle Azur is over the weekend to make the first scheduled flight by a European airline to Baghdad in 20 years amid hopes of boosting historically close Franco-Iraqi business links.

The Airbus A319 is to take off from Paris-Charles de Gaulle Saturday at 11:30 pm with Foreign Trade Minister Anne-Marie Idrac and 40 French businessmen aboard, landing at Baghdad International five hours later.

Commercial flights between the two capitals, previously operated by national carrier Air France, [...]

ABU DHABI – Abu Dhabi International Airport on Tuesday marked its 30th anniversary, celebrating three successful decades of providing travellers and customers with world-class services and state-of-the-art facilities.

The capital’s international gateway has seen more than 126 million passengers pass through the airport since its opening at its current location in 1982.

Having historically been based in Al Bateen since 1969, Abu Dhabi International Airport started operation at its current location 38km outside the city in 1982. Terminal 1 [...]

Recently there was a mid-air collision.

On a flight from Salt Lake City to Boston, a passenger in first class brazenly pulled out his laptop and allegedly started watching images of young children in sexual circumstances with adults.

A fellow passenger reported it to the flight crew. The crew then did what was not done at Penn State: reported the alleged offense to the authorities.

Upon landing at Logan Airport, the man was questioned, arrested, cuffed and hauled off to jail. He was [...]

The Southwest acquisition of AirTran signals major changes in airline service at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Most of them are not what people are expecting.

Southwest is one of America’s most ethical companies. Its success is because they really do like their customers, and it shows on every flight. From that perspective, Southwest is a great successor to AirTran.

However, Atlanta consumers are in for some surprises when Southwest launches service next month. First, there will be fewer flights.

Over 60 percent of all [...]