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Europe Wide Air-Travel Wi-Fi Hits A Legal Snag
European Air Travel Wifi Hits Legal Snag These days while flying having access to wifi internet is more common. We have certainly come a long way from having to switch electronic devices off. Being able to fly and not rely on the hit and miss that is the in-flight entertainment…
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American FAA Approves Use Of Smartphones/Tablets During Takeoff And Landing
Up until now if you were using a tablet, smartphone, notebook/laptop or any other electrical device during the takeoff or landing procedure on a flight then you’d of been asked to turn those electrical devices off – irrespective of what you’re doing on them. For many years this has long…
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Worldwide Airline Delays Caused By Sabre Reservation System Crash
According to reports from Russia Today a huge outage in the Sabre airline reservation system overnight has been labelled as the cause of recent worldwide flight delays. The IBM system went down at 05:20 GMT (12:20am ET) on Tuesday morning and the company confirmed the outage stating that its team…
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Hybrid-Electric Airliners Expected By 2050
While we already have hybrid-electric cars, such as the Toyota Prius, our aviation is still dominated by oil-based fuels. This will be problematic as oil supplies start to dwindle and become more expensive. That is why engineers and scientists with the European Aerospace Consortium EADS and Rolls-Royce are currently developing…
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U.S Admits To Discussing Flight-Blocking With Countries Over Snowden
Yesterday there was an incident that saw Bolivian President Evo Morales forced to land in Austria after suspicions that Edward Snowden was onboard. His plane was refused entry into airspace of Portugal, Spain and France on the way back to La Paz and this has left a bitter taste in…
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Air China Jet Allegedly Hits UFO
The Chinese seem to be having a bit of a run in with UFOs recently if all the stories are to be believed. After sightings of UFOs in the Hubei province amid Alien hysteria, a new story has emerged via the Sun of an Air China jet hitting a UFO…
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Woman Sues Airline For $170K Over Spilt Coffee
It is something that we are always warned about – be careful with hot coffee because spilling it can be dangerous. This is something Lourdes Cervantes found out when travelling on Continental Airlines. The Texan was making a flight from Madrid, Spain to Newark, USA and had some coffee in…
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