Who’ll be flying next year?

Gatwick’s South Terminal turns 50 today, and as I’m watching the local news team reporting live from Gatwick, I can’t help but wonder just how big an impact the rising oil prices and the economic slowdown will have on the airline industry.

RFID rears its head again

You’re at the airport, browsing the shops, when your mobile beeps - it’s an sms from your airline telling you it’s time to go to your departure gate. Sounds like a nice service?

no more paper tickets from 1 June

On 1 June 2008 paper airline tickets will no longer be an option if you fly with one of the member airlines of The International Air Transport Association.

EU refuses to rule on carry-on size limits

The European Commission has withdrawn plans to set legal limits to the size of airplane carry-on baggage.

But what is the real price?

Most regular travellers will have experienced it. You get to the check-out stage of buying your plane ticket and all of a sudden the price you were initially quoted has been replaced by a much larger figure.

What is your Traveller IQ?

How well do you know the world?

Play the fun “Traveler IQ Challenge” here at The Travel Cooler.

The people you meet when travelling

It hardly ever happens to me, but the few times it has happened, it has been in the most unlikely places, which usually freaks me out something chronic! Bumping into people you know when travelling, does it happen to you?

The European Health Insurance Card

I suspect that many EU member states have done a fantastic job of informing its citizens of the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC). However I still talk to people who have no idea that they need the card when travelling in other EU countries.

VSO provides checklist for would-be volunteers

I’ve already had my rant about travel agencies that capitalize on voluntourism, but the renowned development charity Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) is now also warning would-be volunteers about fake voluntary schemes.