It’s that time of year again, as the stars head for alignment this Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles for the 86th Academy Awards. Spain has been...
It may fly a little lower under the radar in some respects than the higher-profile likes of London, Paris, and even Berlin. But not only is Austria’s capital a...
Airplane travel, it's no secret, brings with it unique conditions that can require a little bit (and sometimes a little more) adjustment on the part of passengers. With that...
Ensconced on the Atlantic Ocean’s Bay of Biscay, roughly halfway across the top of Spain, Euskadi (the Basque name for the Basque country) is a land of rolling hills...
Most of us have a fairly clear picture of the procedures passengers go through when they arrive at an airport: check-in, security, boarding, and so forth. And of course...
Once those of us who experience anxiety about or fear of flying realise the importance of facing our fears, and have mastered some relaxation techniques, we can use both strategies to get...
From the air, the third largest (1,560 square kilometres/602 square miles) and second most populous (846,000) of Spain’s Canary Islands is somewhat reminiscent of a biscuit that’s been nibbled...
Well, it’s that time of year again – in the coming days leading up to Ash Wednesday (March 5, this year), the start of the season of Lent before Easter,...
For the last three decades, a heartbreaking civil war and its aftermath put Central America’s smallest country out of the minds of most holidaymakers as a destination – but...
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Every aircraft that legitimately takes to the world’s air lanes, even before it starts its engines, is under the direction of one or another air traffic control centre, especially...