Travel News and Stories for 10/07/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

By newsdesk on October 7th, 2009

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Below is a list of travel news and stories for 10/07/2009

Flight Attendants: Pouring Drinks and Saving Lives
Though the public too often thinks their chief duties are to find pillows and ferry soft drinks, the primary duty of the nation’s more than 90,000 flight attendants is to ensure the safety, health and well-being of passengers.
http://abcnews.go.com

All Aboard For Titanic Memorial Cruise!
The Titanic Memorial Cruise will depart, as the original ship did, on April 8, from Southampton, England, and arrive at the spot in the North Atlantic where the Titanic sank on April 15.
http://abcnews.go.com

TSA to 200lb Boy: Yes Virginia, Board the Plane
A 14-year-old Canby boy was able to slip through security at Portland International Airport and board a flight to Chicago using his mother’s name and credit card.
http://abcnews.go.com

14 Hotels Worldwide Named for American Presidents
Americans love their presidents and so, it seems, does the rest of the world. These 14 hotels, domestic and international, are named in honor of U.S. presidents.
http://www.chicagotribune.com

World’s Best Countries to Live In
Norway takes the number one spot in the annual United Nations human development index released Monday but China has made the biggest strides in improving the well-being of its citizens.
http://news.yahoo.com

Continental posts erroneous “test” fare to its site — but what is it testing?
Here’s a story about an airline doing the wrong thing, then the right thing, and then a confusing thing.
http://www.elliott.org

Slovenia’s Lipizzaner Stallions
These horses "embody elements of the Slovenian culture," says narrator Michael Benz of the Slovenian Tourist Board. They represent "craftsmanship, dedication to tradition, and the love of synergy with nature."
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com

Erie: Erie Kicks Off Eerie Horror Fest With ‘The Lost Boys’ Reunion
It just isn’t Halloween until you’ve had a good dose of scary movies, and the The Eerie Film Festival in Erie, PA is serving up a roster guaranteed to keep you up at night.
http://www.jaunted.com

Deep Survival: How to Build a Fire
After a million-plus years of tinkering, we’ve ﬁnally found a foolproof way to make ﬁre. (Just ın time for winter.) Text by Contributing Editor Laurence Gonzales, author of the books Everyday Survival and Deep Survival No one knows exactly when humans first mastered fire, but there’s evidence that it was more than a million years ago.
http://ngadventure.typepad.com

Australian Kangaroos Engaged in Anti-Human Home Invasion Campaign
Five foot kangaroo invades office. Five foot kangaroo traps psychologist inside office. Five foot kangaroo is kindly “encouraged” to leave the office after bouncing around tearing up the place for more than five minutes. Just another day in the life of an Australian.
http://www.vagabondish.com

Air India suspends pilots, cabin crew after mid-air brawl
Passengers on an Air India flight apparently were treated to quite a scene over the weekend, according to a variety of media reports. Two pilots and two flight attendants apparently came to blows during an international flight on Saturday night.
http://www.usatoday.com

China Spree Has Thrown Down a Big China Challenge — A Remarkable $888 Air-and-Land Winter Package
The battle among tour operators to China is heating up. Yesterday morning, China Spree Travel (www.chinaspree.com) announced that in the months of January and February, it would offer an eight-night, three-city ( Beijing, Xi’an, Shanghai ) air-and-land package for $888 per person based on flights to China from San Francisco
http://www.frommers.com