Tourists’ flight to wrong country
A family who were bound for a week’s holiday in Lanzarote are back home after a check-in desk mix-up meant they caught a flight to Turkey instead.
Charles Coray, his wife Tania and their nine-year-old daughter Phoebe did not realise the mistake until they landed and a hostess said “welcome to Turkey”.
They were issued the wrong boarding passes by a ground handling worker at Cardiff airport on Sunday morning.
Flight attendant wins trip into space – on Rocketplane!
Mathilde Epron was working her daily flight schedule when she grabbed a quick Kit Kat snack, tossed the wrapper in the garbage and went on about her normal duties. Suddenly, struck with a feeling that she should have checked the wrapper, she went back to the trash two hours later, dug out the refuse lo and behold, won one of the first trips into space on fledgling space tourism company, Rocketplane.
Qantas jet lands with gaping hole in fuselage
The 346 passengers were cruising at 29,000 feet Friday when an explosive bang shook the Qantas jumbo jet. The plane descended rapidly. Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling as debris flew through the cabin from a hole that had suddenly appeared in the floor.
It wasn’t until they were safely on the ground after an emergency landing that they realized how lucky they had been: A hole the size of a small car had been ripped into the Boeing 747-400’s metal skin and penetrated the fuselage.
Five hurt during Pamplona bull run finale
You get the basic idea. News Flash: running with bulls is not safe.
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Iraq opens airport aimed at tourism
I think we would have to rate this one as adventure travel.
The 30 Busiest Passenger Airports in the World
The busiest airport is Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport which had 84,846,639 passengers arriving or departing according to 2006 data.
5 Ways Travelers Can Avoid Being Caught With Drugs
The only obvious suggestions that this article missed is “don’t carry drugs”.
13 Things Your Waiter Won’t Tell You
Splitting entrées is okay, but don’t ask for water, lemon, and sugar so you can make your own lemonade. What’s next, grapes so you can press your own wine?
Seriously? Do people do that?
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