Airline commissions books that can be completed in flight time
In today’s world of non-stop information and endless social network notifications, it’s hard to find the time to concentrate on just one story, never mind finishing a full-length novel. The Netherlands’ VertragingsApp has already encouraged train passengers to discover short story authors based on their delay time, and now a new project has created a range of fiction titles for customers of Australia’s Qantas airline, selected to correspond with flight times. READ MORE…
Airline introduces world’s first ‘pay-by-weight’ customer charge
Air travel is ripe for world firsts – take Virgin Atlantic‘s in-flight art gallery for example. In a slightly more controversial move, Samoa Air is now claiming to be the first airline in the world to charge passengers based on their own weight, as well as their luggage. READ MORE…
Delta’s ‘Photon Shower’ combats jet lag with light
Several years back we spotted the Paris-Orly and Paris-Charles de Gaulle airports offering free light therapy sessions to weary winter travelers, and recently we came across something similar. Demonstrated this time at the recent TED2013 conference in California, Delta airlines has devised what it calls a Photon Shower that can minimize jet lag and help travelers recover from a long flight. READ MORE…
Device notifies flyers of their luggage location
Lost luggage can be a nightmare for travelers, and we’ve already seen the hop! suitcase try to tackle the problem by automatically following its owner. Now we’ve come across TrakDot, which is a small signal transmitting device that tracks the location of its user’s luggage. READ MORE…
Frequent flyer miles donated to those who wish to visit sick relatives
We’ve already seen ventures such as AngelMule using travel for social good, rewarding tourists for delivering goods to non-profit ventures abroad. Now The Extra Mile hopes to collect frequent flyer miles from those that don’t use them so that friends and family of the terminally ill can visit their loved ones. READ MORE…
Airport parking lot cars put up for short-term rent
UK vehicle owners willing to let out their car to others when it’s not in use can already do so through the easyCar Car Club scheme. Now in the US, FlightCar aims to put vehicles left in airport parking lots to use by offering them up for short-term loans. READ MORE…
Airline offers trip abroad for voters who disagree with the presidential election outcome
Last year we saw Die Liebeskuemmerer encourage the heart-broken to get away from it all in the form of relaxing breaks, and now Election Protection 2012, a similarly therapeutic campaign from airline JetBlue, promises to fly voters out of the US if their candidate of choice does not win the presidency on 6 November. READ MORE…
Virgin America offers voter registration at 35,000 feet
If airline passengers can get immigration checks out of the way while still en route, then surely there’s a world of other mundane yet necessary tasks that could be taken care of in-flight as well. Take registering to vote, for example. Thanks to a new effort by Virgin America, that’s another chore that can now be handled at 35,000 feet. READ MORE…
Virgin America offers voter registration at 35,000 feet
Airline menu only offers food that tastes good in the air
Airline food has long had a reputation for being substandard and there have been numerous attempts to dispel this image, such as Air France‘s giveaway of its gourmet menu in New York. Now British Airways has created the Height Cuisine menu, which features foods selected due to their taste at an altitude of 30,000 feet. READ MORE…
