Free Travel Tips: Air Travel

Travel Tips: Air Travel

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Low Humidity

- When flying, the low air humidity can really affect you. Undereye moisturizer works great to protect and moisturize your lips, which can otherwise end up cracked and dry. (I like the plain, unfragranced undereye moisturizer from the Body Shop.) Also, if the flight attendants offer you a warm, damp towel near flight's end, take it! It can be a very refreshing comfort.
Laura Methvin ID1185

Miscellaneous Tips for Air Travel

- These tips can help you cope when you travel by air:

If your flight gets cancelled, instead of running with the crowd to the airport counter, try calling your travel agent or the airline to get a new reservation.
If you have carry-on bags, think about getting a seat assignment toward the back of the plane. You board first and have an easier time stowing your bags.
To avoid being delayed at the airport, call the airline before leaving to be sure the flight is scheduled to leave on time.
If your flight is delayed you may be entitled to a refund, even on a nonrefundable ticket!
If you'd like a better seat on your flight be sure to ask at check-in. Bulk-head and exit-row seats are usually last to be assigned and may be available.
Extra time in between flights? Often you can use the executive lounge of an airline for a one-time use fee, usually around $25.
Need to alleviate ear pressure when flying? Place a hot cloth in cup and hold it over your ear. Try it, it works!
Using your laptop in-flight? You'll need to bring an auto/air adapter to be 'plugged in' when you fly.

Tim Matthews ID498

Moderation is the Key

- If you are going to consume alcoholic beverages, consume them in moderation. The lack of oxygen while flying greatly intensifies the effect of alcohol in your blood stream.
Antonio Bryer ID1206

Money-Saving Options

- Picking mid-week flight times is a great way to save money while traveling. Instead of flying on the weekend, choose mid week dates for your departure and arrival flights. Not only will your tickets be cheaper, you’ll usually be able to avoid the hassle of crowded airports.
Whitney ID1864

New Horizons for Air Passengers

- 2003 travellers from Britain's North West can look to ever wider horizons thanks to no-frills airlines operating out of Manchester and John Lennon airports. News reaches Abletogo's Travelsleuth that Monarch Scheduled has more than doubled its 2003 flight programme to Spain and Portugal, with introductory offers of Ł49 one way.

At the same time Liverpool's John Lennon Airport is expected to expand its flight capacity further with no-frills carriers easyJet and Ryanair battling for an increased share of North West traffic to destinations in France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and Spain.

Lufthansa's fledgling budget airline German Wings starts twice daily flights from Manchester to Cologne in Oct/02, while Belgian airline VLM now flies 5 times daily to London City airport. In 2003 the airline will be flying daily to Faro in Portugal and twice daily to Alicante and Malaga in Spain. This will not be the end of the story. Easyset's merger with Go this summer should enable the carrier to open up Scottish, Italian, Czech and Danish routes from Liverpool in 2003. I see a problem, however, in the likelihood of aggravated airport congestion at peak departure times, both in the terminals and on the runways.

Elsewhere this is reaching unacceptable levels, but efforts to relieve the space shortage are running into local controversy. London Stansted, which posted a 13.7% rise in traffic Sept/02, is meeting stiff local opposition to its proposals for an additional runway and terminal space. Plans for an additional terminal 5 at London Heathrow to accommodate the expected doubling of flight and passenger numbers by 2030 were given the go-ahead in Jul/02 after an acrimonious 4-year long planning enquiry. It now emerges that this is just 1 of 3 new terminals envisaged by the government, outlines for which were squirreled away in an appendix smallprint.

Talking of congestion, let's give American Airlines a much deserved pat on the back for increasing their seat pitch, (the distance between a row of seats), to 33-35 inches in their revamped economy class. Compare this with 29 inches on BMI Baby, Easyjet, Monarch, and Ryanair, and 28-29 inches on charter flights operated by Air 2000, Airtours International, Britannia Airways, and JMC.

The British broadsheet, The Sunday Times, has been campaigning on this issue with the objective of persuading airlines to provide a minimum seat pitch of 32 inches on long-haul economy flights, giving at least 30 inches of passenger space (distance from base of seat to seat in front). They are also demanding more transparency in advertising to inform us of the minimum seat pitch that we can can expect on our flights. Abletogo strongly supports this campaign. The issue is not just a question of comfort on long-haul flights but a matter of health, and possibly life and death. The campaign has raised the public's awareness of the hazards of deep vein thrombosis, (DVT), associated with inadequate legroom. Those extra inches in seat pitch mean the difference between an acceptable flight and an acutely uncomfortable experience for a 6-foot-2-inch longshanked elderly glogetrotter with a gamey hip like me. The knowledge that cramped economy class conditions are also potentially lethal can only add to my discomfort.

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