Travel News and Stories for 11/10/2009 : Kathika Travel Website

By newsdesk on November 10th, 2009

Below is a list of travel news and stories for 11/10/2009

Victim of seatback police: “It felt like we had somehow landed in a World War II movie”
Beware of the airline seatback cops. They recently nabbed Cheryl Smith, and they could be coming for you.
http://www.elliott.org

Minimum-wage pilots? Here’s one way of looking at flight deck salaries
The average cockpit wage cost per average passenger fare per hour of flight is just $3.73 — almost half the minimum wage — according to analysis by Robert Herbst of the Web site Airlinefinancials.com.
http://www.elliott.org

Missed your flight? Your airline may help — if you know what to ask for
If you’re delayed on your way to the airport because of a summer thunderstorm, you might think you’re out of luck. Most airlines now gladly charge you a full walk-up fare for the next flight when you don’t get to the gate on time — even if it’s for a reason beyond your control.
http://www.elliott.org

AA Flight Attendants Practice Their Strike Skills Later This Month
Just in time for the holidays, the flight attendants of American Airlines are getting ready to strike. Well, not exactly, but they are trying to prove a point and are hoping to do so with a simulated strike on November 18. They’ll be fake striking this month to get some practice under their belts, because if they don’t get what they want, there might be some real strikes once 2010 rolls around.
http://www.jaunted.com

The Top Three Ways To Remember The Fall Of The Berlin Wall
Today in Berlin, a united city celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Twenty years is not such a long time, and thus the partiers are peppered with those who not only remember the division of the Wall, but perhaps also participated in the breaking down of it in 1989.
http://www.jaunted.com

Roosevelt: More Airplane Shrapnel Rains Onto Long Island
Over the weekend, Delta Flight 799 was on its way to Tokyo from JFK when it lost a pretty big piece. Thankfully the Boeing 777 made it to Japan without any difficulties, and the issue was actually only discovered when it had landed. Apparently the part wasn’t essential, but we doubt that Boeing felt that way when they designed the airplane.
http://www.jaunted.com

Where Americans die abroad, and why: By the numbers
Of course you should beware of crime while planning and making your next international trip. But the numbers say that if you’re among the unlucky few to die, a car, bus or motorcycle is more likely to kill you. Death by traffic is a recurring theme in a fascinating State Department Web page that I came across last week. For [...]
http://travel.latimes.com

TV tours a big attraction for N.Y. tourists
Climbing the Statue of Liberty or catching the view from the Empire State Building are still top New York attractions but tourists are also scrambling to see where their favorite TV shows are filmed.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com

Best New Trips in the World: Exploring Laos’s Northern Hill Country
The world’s far corners are now well within reach. Laos: An Off-Limits Jungle Traveling in Laos has always meant either a quick jaunt to Luang Prabang (the former royal capital city) or a monthlong expedition into terrain that wasn’t always worth the trip—think mosquitoes and a hothouse climate. But a new lodge in Laos’s hill country, north of Luang Prabang, is ushering in a fresh era of tourism.
http://ngadventure.typepad.com

Traveler’s Best Photos of 2009
See a slideshow of Editor-in-Chief Keith Bellows’ favorite pictures published in Traveler magazine.
http://traveler.nationalgeographic.com

Bijagós, a Tranquil Haven in a Troubled Land
To visit this spattering of 88 palm-fringed and thinly populated islands off the coast of West Africa is to enter both another world and another century.
http://travel.nytimes.com

Blown To Smithereens: The Secret Story Of Survival Town
One pleasant spring day in 1955, an atomic bomb blasted an American city into oblivion. This is the story of Survival Town, a purpose-built collection of structures, buildings, even mannequins designed to measure the effects of an atomic weapon used against urban centers. Its optimistic name notwithstanding, Survival Town was destined to become, in a flash, Loserville.
http://weburbanist.com

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