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Flight Shaming Is Wrong And Will Not Help The Environment.

Flight shaming has been on the rise in the past few years with growing calls to ground all aircraft and stop flying altogether. As increasing numbers of people become more conscious of their environmental impact on the world the focus has inevitably turned to what is percieved as one of its biggest polluters, flying, and those travellers who fly a lot have come under increasing demands to stop. Envioronmental concerns are a good thing, but flight shaming is illogical and wrong, and is not the way to help the envioronment. In fact flight shaming may do far more harm than good.

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Posted in Responsible Travel

Why Air Travel Needs To Return To Normal Soon, And Also Why It Shouldn’t.

The Coronavirus pandemic has shut down the world on an unprecedented scale. Never before have so many borders been closed, airlines shut down and people all over the world faced social isolation and quarantine edicts on such a mass scale. But as time goes on it becomes increasingly imperative that airlines need to start flying again and return to normality as soon as possible, and yet at the same time it is clear that they should never be allowed to operate as normal again.

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Posted in Travel Talk

The Best (And Worst) Flight Booking Resources For 2022.

The best (and worst) flight booking search engines, aggregators and OTAs to get the cheapest flights. Updated for 2022.

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Posted in Travel Lists

10 Commandments Of Jetiquette, (Or How To Behave On A Flight!)

How every passenger should behave on every flight. These rules should be made mandatory!

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Posted in Travel Lists

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