Apparently a light aircraft carrying skydivers crashed in flames near a very popular tourist spot in New Zealand. It killed nine people, including four foreign tourists. The plane caught fire after takeoff on Saturday from an airstrip at Fox Glacier. However, locals said that the fire erupted after the lane crashed into a fence at [...]

Recently visitor numbers to South Africa have slumped ever since the end of the World Cup, according to many different tour operators. Frances Geoghegan, the managing director of Africa Travel, said that holiday bookings for August fell by about 20 to 30 percent compared to the same month last year. This is a trend that [...]

Apparently Northwest Airlines’ plea agreement over price fixing charges was just approved by a federal judge late last week. Due to this, the airline is now required to play at least $38 million in fines due to the price fixing charges. Although this is not the first time an airline has been fined for price [...]

It now seems that the United States tourism industry has been given yet another hard blow. It seems that another oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico. This happens just a mere four months since the BP disaster that sparked the worst offshore oil spill in history. However, officials said that there has been [...]

Apparently a man appeared in court on Tuesday after being accused of trying to dazzle pilots with a laser beam as they were trying to land at France’s second busiest airport, Paris Orly. A spokesman for the civil aviation authority said that several pilots complained, and the man was finally arrested near the runway.
The airport [...]

Reports show that as many as 5,000 holidaymakers have been evacuated from Hatteras and Ocracoke Island in the Outer Banks of Norther Carolina. These people were evacuated from the area as Hurricane Earl approaches the east coast.
At the time of posting, the storm was about 410 miles south of Cape Hatteras moving north by northwest [...]

Apparently passengers and carriers alike are very upset over the national government’s plan to implement a new levy on all flight tickets. This new tax, which was initially announced earlier this year, will add a lot of money onto certain tickets.
According to reports, the levy will only add about €8 to tickets to 52 European [...]