Archive for the ‘travel’ tag
$18 Transatlantic Flight #
I wouldn’t be surprised if this never happens, but Ryanair’s CEO is willing to postulate that they’ll be able to cross the “pond” for £10 some day. The way:
It believes the crisis in the aviation industry and the prospect of more airlines collapsing is set to bring the cost of aircraft down, with a glut of unwanted jets coming onto the market.
(via PSFK)
Derrie-Air #
Two Philadelphia papers ran fake ads for a childishly named by-the-pound airline. Just thought it was funny.
Lonely Planet Lies? #
The Economist has a new travel blog — I’m still deeply ambivalent about the mixing of that paper and blogs — which poses an interesting question: how many travel guidebooks are written by people who’ve actually been there?
Indeed, he wrote about Colombia without even going close. As he told Australia’s Sunday Herald Sun newspaper: “They didn’t pay me enough to go to Colombia. I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating who was in an intern in the Colombian consulate.”
Lonely Planet protests that Mr Kohnstamm is an isolated example. “We don’t have any evidence as yet that what he describes in that book applies anywhere else,” said Stephen Palmer, Lonely Planet’s chief executive, to the BBC. And the company has also deflated Mr Kohnstamm’s remarks about Colombia by pointing out that he was writing about the country’s history, not its sights or restaurants.
They Lose Bags #
The Economist has an interesting graph of which airlines will lose your bags for you. Unfortunately, it only counts European carriers. I couldn’t find a similar one for America.
An American in Myanmar #
It’s times like this that I dislike The Economist’s refusal to put bylines on its storied. Nonetheless, last week’s correspondents diary about traveling along the fringes of Burma is well worth reading.
The moment doesn’t last long, but for a few seconds I can picture what her life was probably like before all this. Perhaps she can too. Then her weariness consumes her again, and she is back to being a victim of all that is wrong with Myanmar.
EDIT (2/07/08): According to More Intelligent Life, it’s Roger McShane (whose website will resize your browser window.)