Blog Tag - air travel

Breaking: Plane with 53 Passengers Crashes in Taipei
[Updated 2/10 10.00am] Of the 58 people onboard the flight there are 15 survivors, 40 are confirmed dead, and 3 that remain missing. TransAsia...
Beijing May Soon Have Non-Stop Flights from Calgary, Montreal
While it won't happen before the end of this year, two additional Canadian cities could see non-stop air connections with Beijing sometime in 2015....
China Wants 500,000 Pilots, a Number of Flight Attendants, and Alitrip Arrives
Pilots around the world must have been delighted to see headlines that indicated China needs 500,000 pilots by 2035. However, that wasn't referring...
Talking Travel: New Hotels in Sanya and Beijing, and a New Air Route from Beijing to Lhasa
There's quite a bit of travel news this week, so we'll get right to it. As some of you may have heard, Beijing government offices, schools, and state...
Talking Travel: Trains, Automobiles, and Grasping the Gold
I'm gloating – I reached Premier Gold status in United Airlines' MileagePlus frequent flyer program. The most amazing thing about it is I can now...
Talking Travel: California Dreaming
I still find inflight Wi-Fi to be amazing. Of course, United Airlines doesn't tell you that the moment you reach China's airspace, you're off. When...
Top 10 Reasons You Should Never Fly to Shanghai Again
Having just completed a 48-hour trip to Shanghai – traveling by high-speed train down and by air on return – I am now forever swearing off plane...
Talking Travel: Xiamen Airlines Comes to Beijing
After a kid kicked my seat for four and a half hours on a red-eye from San Francisco to Newark, I've thought a lot about earlier posts regarding the...
Talking Travel: The Golden Rule of Flying
Our previous edition teased it, and we actually mentioned the whole thing back in April, but this time around we will address the entire statement....
Talking Travel: Drive and Ride in Hong Kong, New Tehran-Beijing Route, Asleep at the Controls
Greetings from Hong Kong. The Talking Travel correspondent likes it when he can take his own advice on a good fare, and this Hong Kong trip is a...
Talking Travel: Cathedral Fire, Superlatives, Racist Travel, and Other Stuff
We begin this week on a very sad note. Your Talking Travel correspondent is a big fan of the Zhejiang province city of Ningbo. One of the city's most...
Plane Safety for Pets: Ensuring a Safe Journey
Last month's reports of the tragic death of a dog that died during a domestic flight sent shockwaves through the community right before the start of...