APHORISMS AND QUOTES ON AEROPLANES
Are you one of those people who underline nice sentences in books with a pencil? Do you keep hold of that little piece of paper you once found in a fortune cookie? Fall in love with a song for its lyrics? And do you...
WHO INVENTED THE AIRPLANE TRAY TABLE?
The first ever meal was served on a flight from London to Paris on 1 May 1927. The luxury service was called ‘Silver Wing’ because in those days the most exclusive airplanes had shining silver fuselages.
Silver Wing lunches consisted of highly sophisticated dishes, a...
SCENES SET ON AEROPLANES IN TV SERIES
Necessary premise: it’s never a good sign when a TV series starts on an aeroplane. Just think of the enormously popular TV series Lost (2004-2010), Manifest, created by Jeff Rake in 2018, and the latest Belgian series Into the Night.
In this article, thankfully, we’re...
AIRPLANE! (1980)
If we were to establish a ranking of the funniest films of all time, Airplane! would definitely get a place of honour.
As a matter of fact, in 2000 the American Film Institute placed it number ten in the rank of AFI's 100 Years... 100...
PRIDE! THERE’S A TOUCH OF TURQUOISE IN THE RAINBOW TOO
As an airline, we’re interested first and foremost in the needs of all of our passengers, whether they’re occasional travellers or frequent flyers.
In the past few weeks, we’ve used the rainbow flag as our profile picture on our social media. Most people know that...
AIRPORTS DESIGNED BY ARCHISTARS
French anthropologist Marc Augé called them ‘non-places’.
Non-places are spaces where large numbers of people spend time every day, mainly alone, but always just passing through.
They include train stations, motorway rest areas, amusement parks and above all airports.
However, airports are not without a soul, or...
AIRCRAFT PARTS TRANSFORMED INTO DESIGNER FURNITURE
The current buzzword is upcycling.
Have you ever heard of designer furniture obtained from things or parts of things which used to be something else? Reusing means using an object again for the same purpose for which it was made, whilst upcycling adds a creative...
PODCASTS TO LISTEN TO WHILE ON THE PLANE
What can you do while flying?
As you probably already know, you can read a book or magazine, or take a nap if you’re one of those people who can sleep on cue.
Today, though, we’d like to recommend some great podcasts you can listen to,...
HOW WILL THE FUTURE TRAVELLER BE?
Sci-fi films and books talked about a 2030 where we will travel on flying cars, wearing silver overalls and communicating through microchips under our skin.
2030 is coming and none of us has pointed ears so far.
But it is true that the way we travel...
IN-FLIGHT COMICS OR FLIGHT IN COMICS?
Cinema, music, painting and literature. Flight has always been a topic of interest across all art forms due to the appeal of going beyond the physical limits of humankind, the possibility of exploring unknown worlds and the sheer complexity of machines that challenge gravity,...