Airline seats can be a tight squeeze for some people. But a new patent from Airbus suggests that one solution might be to make its seats a little more like park benches, to accommodate all kinds of width of human being. Read more >>
To help ease the lack of personal space, much-maligned US airliner Delta will this week start serving craft beer on its flights. The menu of obscure bevvies is enough to make any hipster-traveller drool.
Turbulence: spiller of coffee, jostler of luggage, filler of barf bags, rattler of nerves. But is it a crasher of planes? Judging by the reactions of many airline passengers, one would assume so; turbulence is far and away the number one concern of anxious passengers.