One of the biggest consumer concerns with air travel is the negative environmental effect. Several airlines have taken steps to reduce their ecological effects moving forward. While there is no way to completely eliminate emissions from air travel, here are a few airlines making positive efforts toward sustainability.
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The Land of the Rising Sun has had regularly scheduled commercial air service since the early 1920s, with the exception of a few years during that war which shall go unnamed. As an archipelago, Japan has constantly benefited from aviation as a way to connect the various islands at jet speed. Meanwhile, airlines from Europe
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When people think about vintage airline posters and international travel, they often think far-away lands and far-flung destinations. Mexico, though, has always been a top destination (at least for U.S. travelers) because of its enchanting culture, incredible history, amazing food, welcoming people, varied natural wonders, and—of course—its proximity. Airlines have been shuttling people across the
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Remote and exotic, the islands of Hawaii still hold the promise of paradise here on Earth. To sell tickets to Paradise, airlines toggled between images of lush land- and seascapes and salacious depictions of the islanders: surf, sun, and skin. That combination still seems to work, as some 9 million people visited the archipelago last
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Have you ever thought about flying to Easter Island? Or from Australia to Chile? How about Brazil to South Africa? Well, with its recent route between São Paulo and Johannesburg, LATAM Airlines now flies across two of the planet’s three southern oceans, and one of only a few airlines to connect the Southern Hemisphere. Based
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This summer, Europe gets that much closer when Norwegian Air starts its new routes from the Northeastern U.S. on its brand-spanking-new Boeing 737-MAX jets, augmenting its already extensive 787 long-haul transatlantic service. The airline officially announced the routes in February, along with introductory fares as low as $65 each way—and you can still find some cheap tickets
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One of the things I love about flying foreign carriers is the little bits of culture that you get to experience on the airline. With SAS, which connects the three Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden to the rest of the world, you get a very Nordic combination of friendliness and efficiency that make
One of the major joys of international travel, for me, is to take what I call an exotic flight. For some people, that might be the short hop from Honolulu to Hilo or Madrid to Barcelona. True, those destinations can be exotic for people who aren’t from those climate or cultural zones, but my type
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Did you know that you can fly on a double-decker plane from five cities in North America? No, the iconic 747, with its distinctive hump and short business-class cabin towards the front isn’t the double-decker plane I’m referring to. I mean the world’s largest airplane, the Airbus A380, which can seat between 525 (typical 3-class
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In 1956, New York college student Patricia Banks counted herself among the first cadre of young black women to finish flight attendant training school. Sadly, like those other young women, she found it possible to gain employment with any of the major airlines, unlike her white classmates. “…one of the chief hostesses from Capital [Airlines]…she
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