Airline and cruise ship companies will be required to fingerprint foreign nationals leaving the United States under a controversial Department of Homeland Security proposal released Tuesday.
It has been a year of promising news for the globe-trotting business traveler. Yes, there have been all the woes of increased airport security, packed planes, heaving hotels and bursting business-class lounges, but some of the headlines have brought encouragement for a better future.
The airplane has become, for many, climate change public enemy number one. And for good reason, say environmentalists. The air travel sector now carries the label of "the world's fastest growing source of greenhouse gases" according to Friends of the Earth (FoE), with airplanes pumping out more than 600 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. That's nearly as much CO2 as the African continent annually expels.
Next summer, paper airline tickets will go the way of vinyl records and rotary-dial phones: They won't entirely disappear, but they'll be hard to find.
"Where's my ticket?" There are set to be less and less of those panicked moments when you can't find your bundle of tear-away coupons, one for each sector of your trip. The airline ticket has been steadily reduced to a reference number called an e-ticket - short for 'electronic ticket' -- which stores passenger and itinerary information in an airline's computer system.
Tougher security measures introduced at UK airports are failing to protect passengers, an industry watchdog said as it criticized the country's busiest airport for delays that could harm the country's economy.
Next time you board a plane and jet off on holiday to somewhere hot, spare a thought for the fact that by flying there you are probably helping to make that somewhere even hotter.
A system using fingerprint scanning and face recognition systems, designed to speed up passenger transit times and increase security, is beginning a trial at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3.
After 40 years in the making, the opening of Bangkok's new airport has been confirmed for 3am, September 28, with everyone from the prime minister of Thailand to industry experts hoping that the $3.7bn airport will operate smoothly.
Airline and cruise ship companies will be required to fingerprint foreign nationals leaving the United States under a controversial Department of Homeland Security proposal released Tuesday.
It has been a year of promising news for the globe-trotting business traveler. Yes, there have been all the woes of increased airport security, packed planes, heaving hotels and bursting business-class lounges, but some of the headlines have brought encouragement for a better future.
The airplane has become, for many, climate change public enemy number one. And for good reason, say environmentalists. The air travel sector now carries the label of "the world's fastest growing source of greenhouse gases" according to Friends of the Earth (FoE), with airplanes pumping out more than 600 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) every year. That's nearly as much CO2 as the African continent annually expels.
Next summer, paper airline tickets will go the way of vinyl records and rotary-dial phones: They won't entirely disappear, but they'll be hard to find.
"Where's my ticket?" There are set to be less and less of those panicked moments when you can't find your bundle of tear-away coupons, one for each sector of your trip. The airline ticket has been steadily reduced to a reference number called an e-ticket - short for 'electronic ticket' -- which stores passenger and itinerary information in an airline's computer system.
Tougher security measures introduced at UK airports are failing to protect passengers, an industry watchdog said as it criticized the country's busiest airport for delays that could harm the country's economy.
Next time you board a plane and jet off on holiday to somewhere hot, spare a thought for the fact that by flying there you are probably helping to make that somewhere even hotter.
A system using fingerprint scanning and face recognition systems, designed to speed up passenger transit times and increase security, is beginning a trial at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3.
After 40 years in the making, the opening of Bangkok's new airport has been confirmed for 3am, September 28, with everyone from the prime minister of Thailand to industry experts hoping that the $3.7bn airport will operate smoothly.
As more and more hotels go completely smoke-free, a German entrepreneur is bucking the trend by launching an airline for those determined not to kick the habit.
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) plans to push next week for aggressive industry deregulation since governments and airports had not done enough to improve efficiency, its head said on Thursday.
Many business travelers now book air tickets and car hire on the Internet, print out their own boarding passes or use check-in kiosks at airports and hotels.
In about the same amount of time -- 2 1/2 years -- it took Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev to agree to eliminate an entire category of nuclear missiles, the Common Market's 12 transportation mi...
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