Air Travel

What's So Special About Business Class?

By Greg Mattson

Can you "bump me up"? How much to upgrade? Is there room up front?

Despite the growth of no-frill discount airlines, business class travel is gaining in popularity on air carriers around the world. It seems everyone who flies often wants to experience life on the "other side of the curtain". Unfortunately, for most fliers, they only glimpse they get of this part of the cabin is when walking through it on the way back to their cramped economy seat!

So, exactly what is a business class seat, and why is it so sought after?

The Original Eight: Genesis of the Modern Day Flight Attendant

By Matthew Keegan

The following article serves as a tribute to eight women who were the forerunners of the modern day flight attendant now numbering nearly 250,000 women and men worldwide.

In 1930, it was the dream of many a young man to marry a Boeing Skygirl. These “original eight” women were single nurses enticed from their homes with the idea of marriage to a rich-lonesome business passenger. Ultimately, however, they played a pivotal role in revolutionizing air travel by ensuring passenger comfort and through promoting the safety of air travel.

During that time America was in the beginning of an economic depression that would eventually deepen and spread to effect the entire world. Nevertheless, new advances in aircraft development continued to be promoted which helped strengthen the accessibility of air travel to the general public.

Studying Wake Turbulence at Airports Using the Sun as Background

By Lance Winslow

Airports are needing to study the wake turbulence of aircraft taking off at large airports to improve safety. Wake turbulence has caused many accidents between large aircraft and smaller ones literally turning the aircraft upside down and putting it into a death spiral. Only the most advanced pilots can complete the induced roll and fly out of danger. But even so during take off and landing operations at an airport there is significant dangers when you are low and slow.

Due to wake turbulence aircraft are to wait a minimum of three minutes before taking off or landing behind another aircraft. If you are in a light aircraft and the wind is directly down the runway you may wish to wait five minutes to be safe. The times between aircraft means you can take off less aircraft each hour and this can cause traffic delays for airlines costing millions and wasting fuel idling to take off. Additionally upset airline passengers end up missing connecting flights.

Speed Limit - 10 Miles Per Hour

by Glenn H. Kipps

The year was 1900. Henry Ford and Ransom Eli Olds had their cars on the road, and the speed limit for this new mode of transportation was 10 miles per hour. Just imagine...

9 hours to travel across New Jersey's 90 miles. (Today... about 1-1/2 hours)
30 hours to travel across the central part of Virginia's 300 miles. (Today... about 5 hours)
31 hours to travel across Pennsylvania's 310 miles (Today... about 5 hours)
Cross country ... forget it! We're talking about 300 hours nonstop!

And that's by car. Now go back a little further to the horse and buggy days, and a lot further to the covered wagon days, and it becomes obvious that - by comparison - we are living in an era when our country has become much like our "backyard."

Several Facts to Obtaining Cheap Airfares

By Corsa Dirfes

Airfares
Need a vacation but dont want to stay around town? Want to go somewhere exotic, somewhere different? Want to fly but worried about the airfare? Sourcing the cheapest airfare available has been made easier with competition growing between travel agencies as people realize that a vacation need not be all that expensive. Airfare can be a hindrance to the best of vacation plans but it need not be. With so many travel companies vying for your business securing cheaper airfare is a given!

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