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As weird as this might sound, it has been proved that air traveling is the most secure mean of travel or should we say, where there is the less problem.

Train and cars are the most problematic with accidents repetitively happening. The boat is a pretty safe option but plane is still ahead with the least accidents across all mean of transports.

The downside is that the plane is not green and probably one of the most polluting transport on a per passager basis where electric train are of course the best choice.

Green or not, the choice is up to you but with pricing going down and down on flights tickets, most people will probably go for the cheapest.

It is this time of the year when everyone is starting to prepare for festival. Buying tickets, arranging accomodation, booking flights. The recent scandal of false festival tickets also concern the rest of the package. If you book a complete ticket+ accommodation + flight to go to on of those European festivals from a false company, it is not just the ticket that will be refused but also you accommodation and the flight, which even not exists.

So double and triple check everything, only book from trusted and known website. Check that the site has an https connection (if your browser shows a small locker in the bottom bar it should be fine).

The previously announced BA strike and the ash cloud still keeping some plane to the ground may have discouraged quite a few travelers.

AA has announced that roads will be much busier that other bank holiday due to the fact that less people are taking holidays abroad because of the current conditions, and will rather take their cars to drive somewhere close.

So if you are one of those grounded travelers beware of the traffic and try to prepare your journey in advance by departing in off pick hours for example.

Hope everyone has a very nice and long bank holiday weekend.

It has been announced that the staff of British Airways will go on strike again very soon. If you intend to fly from London beware and check with the airport / BA before going to the airport. Many flight should be canceled if the strike is followed by as many people as last time and we expect to see a few delays as well.

The staff are fighting management because of a salary problem, again, and the authorities haven’t said if they were going to honnor those revendications or not yet.

So as usual we will keep you posted on further development but for now it seems that you are flying with BA you’re not flying at all.

After a good week of break not hearing anything about Ash cloud, it comes back to haunt us. Airport have been grounding flights after flights recently and it looks like it will go back to the situation we had two weeks ago.

There is a ray of hope though as a new revision of the recommendation could mean more flight could be allowed to fly. The density of ash in the air where plane can still fly might be raised later today which would mean over 90% of the canceled planes would actually be allowed to fly.

We will of course try to get more information about that so stay tuned.

If you have ever booked using one of the numerous low cost airlines available, chances are you have been charged pricey charges that do not always make sense.

For example why should you pay transaction fees on a per way basis per passenger basis when you pay with one single card. They only do one transaction right? So where are those charges coming from? Rynair are probably the most famous for that, charging over the top fees for arguable reasons.

That’s the latest bad new about air traveling. Due to the Volcano crisis and the current petrol market, prices are likely to go up by up to 11%. Grounded planes during the volcano ash cloud crisis meant flight companies could not make any money.

And of course when things go wrong it has an effect on the price structures, with low cost airlines probably getting the biggest increase. This might be compensated a bit for UK residents because of the pound value going back up at the moment which means cheaper holidays than last year.

Let’s hope this will not drop again.

All airplanes are grounded until 7pm tomorrow due the ash cloud crossing North Europe airspace. As we predicted earlier this week, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano spread a massive ash could the got pushed by artic winds toward England.

The cloud is spreading and affecting the majority of our air space as we speak and all traffic has been stopped to avoid an material loss.

This is likely to continue until at least tomorrow but authorities are already talking about expanding the delay to a few more days if necessary as to not take any risks with the passengers.

A recent eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull, a medium size volcano in Iceland might affect air traffic some airlines are saying.

A similar eruption back in the 80’s blocked air traffic for a few days after a plane nearly crash due the ash cloud of the volcano. Ash clouds are deadly for airplane engines and prevent the aircraft carry on with its journey.

If the ash from the Icelandic volcano drift down our way we might face a few days or trouble as airlines will probably stop all traffic to prevent losing planes.

Wait and see, we’ll try to keep you updated.

The jet lag is what happens to your body when you travel long distances and end up on a very different time zone. If you left at 8am and arrived at 8am local time after a 12 hours filght then you are likely to suffer from the jet lag and be tired in mid day local time.

To avoid a painfull jet lag here are some tips to help you:

• get in the mood of you destination as soon as possible by setting you clocks to your destination time
• Drink a lot of water to avoid dehydration
• Eat and sleep like if you where there already. Try to stick with you destination life schedule and have your meals at the same time you would have them if you where arrived
• Allow time to adjust to your destination time by taking an extra day there before anything else.