A lawyer wrote the rules budget airlines still fly by
Herb Kelleher's Southwest Airlines flew one plane type, skipped seat numbers and turned jets round fast. Ryanair and easyJet copied the model.
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Cosmic radiation doubles with every 6,000 feet you climb
One long flight gives you about a week of background radiation. A 2019 UK law protects crew who could pass 1 millisievert of cosmic radiation a year.
The trouble with ice on a wing
Even thin frost on a wing cuts lift and adds weight. Crews melt it with heated orange glycol, then add a thicker green fluid to stop new ice forming.
Five dead as Amazon cargo jet overruns Miami runway
A Boeing 767 freighter flying for Amazon ran off a Miami runway on 2026-09-06, killing five. The NTSB has published a preliminary report on the landing.
Canadian airlines owe delay compensation if the fault is theirs
Canada's Air Passenger Protection Regulations let you claim when a delay the airline caused makes you arrive 3 hours late. You have 1 year to claim.
Timing decides what a Las Vegas flight costs
Which? found a £433 Las Vegas return by flying on New Year's Eve, against a £709 average, and KAYAK lists one-way fares to Vegas from $44.
Ryanair is cutting seats to Spain's cheapest city to fly to
Which? found Santiago de Compostela the cheapest Spanish city to fly to from London. Ryanair has since said it is closing its base there.