Airline Confidential

We've changed our name and moved our blog to Inflight Confidential . A revised and updated paperback version of the book is coming out i...

Our perennial favourite Michael O’Leary, head of RyanAir, has been at it again. Never a man to be fazed by a situation or lost for words, he...

Everyone who has felt the urge to make some wisecracks about bombs on planes, and there are no doubt many of us who would like to make light...

Chapter One of the book on workplace non-discrimination probably begins with ‘Don’t bring sexual orientation into it.’ Sadly a senior manage...

In an episode which has gripped South America the facts could simply not be made up; if it was fiction it would be dismissed as too implausi...

Notorious punk icon and Sex Pistol’s bass player Sid Vicious had a short and dramatic life, the sort which would test even the most loving m...

It sounds like a scene in the spoof movie ‘Airplane’ but it’s true; both pilots were sound asleep as their plane should have been descending...

Indian entrepreneur Vijay Mallya has expanded his empire to include international air travel. The flamboyant soul, who is known as ‘India’s ...

Fed up with unscheduled nights in an airport hotel? Outraged by the rates charged by second rate accommodation for a few hours bad sleep bef...

It might at first glance sound a bit obvious, but the fact that The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is working on moves to ma...

Ever wondered what happens to your luggage once it vanishes from sight on the conveyor belt at check-in (apart from having the handle ripped...

This just in from a pal in the airline business... The latest XL related casualty is the closing this morning of....wait for it...Throb Holi...