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Passengers injured on V Australia flight
Staff writers A COMBINATION of food poisoning and turbulence has resulted in a number of injuries on board a Melbourne-bound flight.
Airport introduces hologram staff
Lee Taylor MANCHESTER Airport has introduced futuristic holograms of customer service staff to inform passengers of travel restrictions.
Hire car firm rip-offs drive customers mad
By Kate Schneider EXCESSIVE costs, unfair hidden charges and poor service named as the biggest frustrations among angry consumers.
Cops told to shoot on sight after Aussie bound, gagged
By Karlis Salna in Jakarta AN Australian tourist is recovering after a terrifying ordeal in which she was bound, gagged and beaten in a holiday villa in Bali.
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Flight attendant fashion
HOT pants and miniskirts feature in a new exhibition showcasing the fashion of flight attendants of the past.
Tough Guy Challenge 2011
WATCH brave competitors run over fire, swim in freezing lakes and climb through barbed wire in one of the world's toughest races.
Valentine's Day deals
TREAT the love of your life to a weekend in the Barossa or a week in Tahiti on the most romantic day of the year.
US Snowstorms
Snowstorms have blanketed eastern US states, stranding vehicles, closing schools and cancelling flights from busy JFK airport.
Volcano stops Jetstar flights to Bali
THE travel plans of hundreds of Australians have been thrown into disarray after a volcano erupted, spewing ash into the air.
We don't have maintenance issues - Qantas
QANTAS has denied it is experiencing systemic maintenance problems after a series of mid-air scares - including an 8km plunge.
Aussie sparks in-flight drama
By Lucy Carne, London A DRUNKEN Australian blamed nerves for causing a bomb hoax that sparked terror fears over British skies.
Knives pulled on tourists in jet ski scam
By Kate Schneider AUSSIE tourists in Thailand are being threatened with violence and conned out of thousands over alleged jet ski "damage".
Another Qantas drama strands passengers
By Richard Noone SYDNEY-bound flight forced to return to Bangkok due to engine problems hours after a Qantas jet plunged 8000m.
Jets scrambled after plane bomb hoax
By Staff Writers PLANE diverted with fighter jet escort after man claims fellow passenger has a gun and "threatened to blow himself up".
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Flight attendant fashion on show
By Kate Schneider HOT pants and miniskirts feature in a new exhibition offering an insight into the fashion of flight attendants of the past.
Julia Gillard urges Aussies to leave Egypt
Jodie Minus PRIME Minister warns number of Australians in Egypt could be "in the thousands" as country's travel advisory warning at its highest.
Rudd urges restraint as toll rises in Egypt
By staff writers AUSTRALIANS told not to travel to Egypt as hundreds already there brace amid rising violence.
Jetstar Bali backlog 'clear by today'
AIRLINE puts on extra flights to clear backlog about 1600 holidaymakers left stranded in Bali by volcanic ash.
Flights to Bali to resume after ash halt
VIRGIN Blue and Jetstar to resume flights to Bali after being told ash from an Indonesian volcano is longer a threat to aircraft.
Aussies told to reconsider travel to Egypt
THE Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has raised the level of caution for Australians considering travelling to Egypt.
Volcano strands hundreds
SOME flights to Bali will resume tomorrow, although hundreds of Australians remain stranded by a volcanic ash cloud.
Japan volcano spews ash, halts flights
TRAIN and flight services to Miyazaki in southwestern Japan were suspended today as the erupting Shinmoedake volcano spewed columns of smoke and ash thousands of metres into the sky.
Volcano halts all Bali flights
Jodie Munro O'Brien ALL Jetstar and Virgin Blue flights into and out of Bali have been cancelled in the wake of a volcanic ash cloud.
Transsexual hosties taking to the skies
A BEAUTY pageant winner is among a group of transsexuals hired by a "pioneering" Thai airline to serve you on your next flight in new policy.
US snowstorm cancels hundreds of flights
A MASSIVE snowstorm put a crimp in travel plans for thousands of US air passengers and drivers, not even sparing President Obama.
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