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If you have spare hours before the connecting a flight and wish to grab a few winks. Or maybe your plane doesn’t leave until the following morning. You need not bother about finding a hotel room in a strange city. If you don’t feel like leaving the terminal, you may soon be able to relax in style with YOTEL as long as you are in UK. This summer Yotels will be open inside London’s Gatwick airport and Terminal 4 of Heathrow. There are ultra-modern, windowless rooms in the Yotel that cost about $50 for a four-hour block, with hourly extensions available. Overnight stays start at about $110. Each soundproof cabin will contain a sofa that converts into a double bed, a pull down desk, closet space, adjustable mood lighting, a shower, wireless Internet, an iPod connection and a flat-screen TV. You could see Yotels pop up in other airports and central-city locations in future. Next time your flight gets delayed or you have spare time and you wish to relax, rent a chic at the airport. Source: USA Today

Ryanair, a low-cost airlines has planned to make vision of a €10 ticket to cross the Atlantic as true. This would possibly ignite the low cost warfare. Another landmark agreement has been approved to open more trans-Atlantic routes in coming days. Michael O’Leary, chief executive of Ryanair, said the airline has the plan to start low-cost service in 2010 and would serve five or six US cities. According to him, the tickets for economy-class seats would be available for €10. Some of industry analysts say that the US and the EU have flagged down the agreement as a breaking point for selfless air travelers noshed up with the steep fares that airlines charge for travel across the Atlantic. The claims for the proposal for ultra-low fares, the initial impact on ticket prices would be more limited. Further, the ‘open skies deal’ is all set to be signed on April 30 in Washington. With this deal, the European airlines and US airlines would be given permission to fly on any route between any city in the EU and any city in the United States. It would also abolish the restrictions on the airlines such as German carrier Lufthansa from operating flights to the US from Amsterdam or Rome or any other European city. US airlines will have the rights to fly between European cities and the EU airlines will have the direct service between the US and non-EU countries too. Read

Allegiant Air flight made a successful landing in the clouds of spark and smoke at the Orlando Sanford International Airport in the United States after circling for nearly an hour when a hydraulic problem occurred in the front nose gear and the gear failed to descend. There were some sparks and lot of smoke but no flames. The plane was carrying 157 passengers. All evacuated the plane by slides. No serious casualties are reported.

In November, six Muslim clerics (imams) were removed from United Flight 300 after being accused of suspicious behavior. They are threatening to sue the passengers who were aboard and have filed the civil rights lawsuit against the airline and their fellow passengers. The complaint is filed in Minnesota federal court and seeks an undisclosed amount of money for punitive and compensatory damages. Ahmed Shqeirat, Mohamed Ibrahim, Didmar Faja, Omar Shahin, Mahmoud Sulaiman, and Marwan Sadeddin were the six men and were returning home from a conference of Islamic clerics in Minneapolis. Praying and chanting in Arabic, asking for the seat belt extenders in the plane were the reasons why the passengers suspected the imams. After the passengers complained of the suspicious behavior of the imams the plane was cleared for a security sweep, nothing was found and the jet took off without the imams. It is said that such lawsuits could discourage travelers from speaking up when they see something unusual. Images Source: MSNBC

Annual Airline Quality Rating report was released on Monday, 2nd April, 2007. It shows there is rise in number of delayed and canceled flights, lost luggage, bumped passengers and other problems that have fueled growing customer dissatisfaction with flying. The research is sponsored by the Aviation Institute at University of Nebraska at Omaha and Wichita State University and was based on Transportation Department statistics. Hawaiin, JetBlue and AirTran were among the top three on the 18-airline list, while Atlantic Southeast, American Eagle and Comair were the bottom three. Hawaiian had the best baggage handling performance and Atlantic Southeast the worst. Overall, on-time arrival for all airlines from 2006 to 2005 was down whereas mishandled baggage rates increased for the same time period. The survey’s overall rating for airlines shows a decline in quality and it is not a surprise to many travelers. Source: MSNBC

Next time you travel by Britain’s Premium Aircraft Interiors Group, you will be surprised; the seating arrangement of the plane has changed. Freedom Economy Seat, a three-seat row that flips the middle one backward has been introduced. Also there is a four-seat row in which the middle two face backward. Ben Bettell, the PAIG executive has led the seat design plan project and it is said that Freedom seats also would give passengers at least two more inches of legroom than conventional seats. This change is brought about to get rid of the current problems of coach passengers bumping elbows, knees and especially shoulders, typically the widest part of the body. PAIG is now considering a wider Freedom seat configuration for first-class sections of narrower planes such as the Boeing 737 or Airbus A320. Source: USA Today

Luxurious Boeing 787s is going get a fancier interior. It has asked Boeing BMW’s DesignworksUSA group to model them up with a fancy interior for an imaginary super-rich Russian client in his mid-30s. In it, you’ve got a bar, many couches, beds, meeting rooms, stairs, some more couches, and even a place to house your BMW for when you get off. There will be semi-translucent walls, residential-style furniture that lets space visually continue around it and vistas that let the eye travel beyond the immediate environment. You can visit this year’s Aircraft Interiors show in Hamburg to get a unique glimpse into the zeitgeist of Russian-style blini bling with the latest 787 VIP cabin concept. Images Source: gridskipper

The first-class of some airlines is going to eliminate soon. Shocked? Yes, this is true; the airline industry is planning a new future of the first class to make you feel more comfortable while traveling. Airlines who keep their first-class service will elevate it to a level of unparalleled luxury seen in five-star hotels. And those who are not able to meet the standards will cease to exist. Fly Singapore and Lufthansa are among those few which promise to exhibit a level of luxury that will surprise even the most jaded travelers. What are the changes expected in the first-class? There will be fewer seats, more square footage and more cabin attendants. Seats will be like mini-suites with sliding doors for total privacy to sleep, dine or hold business meetings. There will be Jacuzzis and saunas at the first-class lounges which already have beauty salons, massage parlors and chefs. The passengers will get 10-course seafood extravaganza that lasts three hours. The parade of endless food courses will be replaced by more control of what and when the passengers want to eat. The first-class bathrooms of the future will be two and half times their current size and will have top of the line fixtures. There will be beefed up entertainment systems with bigger screens. Presently around 35 airlines provide first class services globally and it is said that with the change in the level of standards, there will be only 20 or 25 left. Soon you will be able to enjoy the new levels of comfort in the first-class. Source: MSNBC

Qantas, the premier Australian and world-renowned airline, has decided to suspend its thrice-weekly flights between Adelaide and Auckland. The decision will come into force from July 23. The reason behind the move is suppose to be a continuous dip in number of passengers for this route. The Qantas’ South Australian regional general manager Terry Simpson said: The decision is in response to sluggish market demand. Qantas launched the Auckland-Adelaide service in December 2004 but it had not delivered the results to make it viable for the airline. Qantas, which is the 11th largest airline of the world, is also one of the oldest and continuously running independent airlines. Image Source: Stuff