Airline rankings, airport records, aviation curiosities and industry analysis — plus how modern airline distribution and NDC actually work.
Why the food is bland, why the lights dim on landing, why there is a hole in your window, and why the black box is orange. Twenty-five oddities of flight, each with the reason behind it.
12 min read
Record traffic, a fourteen-year aircraft backlog, engines coming off wings, sustainable fuel that barely exists yet, and closed airspace. What is actually shaping air travel right now.
12 min read
Miles, points, tiers and alliances — how the major loyalty programmes earn, expire and redeem, and how to tell a genuinely good one from a well-marketed one.
11 min read
Airlines earn a few dollars per passenger on the ticket — and far more on everything else. Inside fuel, seats, bags, cargo, and the loyalty programmes worth more than the airlines that own them.
12 min read
Airline codes, airport codes, flight numbers, fare classes and the missing row 13 — the hidden grammar printed on every boarding pass, decoded.
10 min read
Runways that cross public roads, disappear at high tide, or end at a cliff. A tour of the airports where landing is a genuine skill — and why they are built that way.
11 min read
Nineteen hours in a seat: the ultra-long-haul routes, the aircraft built to fly them, the economics that make them possible, and the records they broke along the way.
10 min read
Passengers, cargo tonnes, runway movements and the world's most-flown routes — the numbers behind the airports that never sleep, and why each ranking has a different winner.
10 min read
Who really flies the best? A guided tour of the major airline rankings — overall, by cabin, by crew, by catering and by low-cost — plus how each award is actually judged.
11 min read
What happens when you book a flight? A simple, non-technical explanation of how airlines sell tickets and how your reservation reaches the airline — from the old GDS systems to modern NDC technology.
7 min read
