Reaching passport control without your passport
Well that’s a first! Landing back at your UK airport, walking down the steps onto the runway … and then realising you’ve put your passport into the hold and you can’t get through passport control. How is that even possible? Well that happened to me just last week as I returned from the Berlin Marathon,…
Flying in Concorde – what was it like?
Sadly Concorde stopped flying in 2003. This was due to the Paris airport crash of 2000, the general downturn in the commercial aviation industry as well as increasing maintenance costs. The world suddenly became a bigger place again on 25th October, the day after it stopped flying. Much has been written about Concorde’s history, celebrity…
How much CO2 does a flight produce?
So flying is bad for the environment. But just how much CO2 does a flight produce, say per person on a return flight from London to New York? While Googling this you’ll sometimes it can be difficult to get a straight answer. Some websites mention “total CO2 created”, but many talk “per mile”, while others…