Two Muslim religious leaders were removed from a Delta flight in Memphis because the pilot refused to fly with them. Officials tried to talk to the pilot for over a half an hour, but he refused to fly with the men on board. The aircraft pulled away from the gate, but the pilot then announced [...]
Medical officials in the UK say the number of women who’ve been subjected to genital mutilation is on the rise. Although the practice is illegal in the country, thousands are considered to be at risk annually — and no one has ever been convicted of the crime.
It might seem like something from a science fiction movie, but it’s really San Francisco’s airport lit up at night.
If you’ve ever wondered what New York City would be like without its subways, look no further. If you replaced the morning rush hour traffic with cars instead of mass transit, it would be a huge nightmare. – from 8:00AM to 8:59 AM on an average Fall day in 2007 the NYC Subway carried 388,802 [...]
Private Chinese airline carrier, Spring Airlines, has proposed that, in order to fit more people on their tightly packed airplanes, a standing room only area would lower costs up to 20%, thus reducing the price of a ticket. “The process of plane making is really long,” spokesman Zhang Wuan told CCTV. “We already ordered 14 [...]
The Telegraph has two interesting galleries of photos for their travel section. One is called 20 ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers while the other is 20 stupid questions asked by tourists. Not to be outdone, the readers of the Telegraph have also sent in some of their own experiences. A sampling of all three are [...]
