Subscribe to Updates
Get the latest creative news from FooBar about art, design and business.
Author: News Team
Ryanair have revealed plans that will leave up to 200 passengers using just one toilet. The plan for just one bathroom per plane will allow six more seats per plane. The plans will take the ‘no frills’ air travel to a new level, but according to Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary, the change would lower air travel by around five per cent. The plans are controversial and will leave passengers in long queue or crossing their legs and hoping for the best. Two out of the three toilets will be removed from the planes and replaced with…
Team GB Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls lead call for ticketholders to neutralise their travel carbon footprint to the games In supporting the ambition for London 2012 to be the most sustainable Games possible, BP Target Neutral announced today that they are inviting London 2012 ticket holders, from across the world, to try and set a new world record for the most number of people offsetting their travel carbon to a single event. In so doing, BP’s not-for-profit Target Neutral carbon management scheme is seeking to create awareness of the environmental impact of all journeys and will invite ticket holders to…
In wake of the destructive earthquake and tsunami in March, Japan has seen a major decrease in tourists and is now considering complimentary flights. Usually a hot spot for any visitor to the Far East, the country is hoping to kick-start interest by giving away 10,000 free flights to foreign visitors. The plan is still at the proposal stage, and is subject to government budget approval – but could start by April next year. Potential visitors will be asked to submit an online application for a free flight, specifying which area of the country they would like to…
Ever since I can remember, travel was always a big part of my family memories. My parents used to make the most of our 3-week long holidays to take my sister and I to some amazing places, which, they figured, we would certainly enjoy to the max! Whether close to home or farther from it, our family time was much appreciated and one of our first trips as a gang of four was to the Lake District, a region that got embedded in my brain at a very young age. Well, my sister was even younger, hardly over a year…
Stanmore, Middlesex, UK 10/03/2011 – One of the most powerful forms of advertising is the recommendation of satisfied customers. No one knows this more than Electronic Cigarette Direct (ECD), a UK-based e-cigarette retailer with a growing list of positive customer testimonials. These testimonials range from simple, one-sentence comments all the way up to multiple paragraphs. Customers are happy with a variety of things including customer service, price, and the products sold by ECD. ECD features products carrying the VAPESTICK brand name because they believe in them. The owners of the company are former smokers who have tested many of the…
Following the Indian summer we all enjoyed last week British Airways have launched a range of winter sun packages designed to help us escape the cold, dark winter nights, which are available to book until October 18th. Destinations include: Barbados, Bermuda, Cancun, Grenada, Saint Lucia, St Kitts, Tobago, Las Vegas, Miami, Orlando, San Diego, St Pete’s and Clearwater, Tampa. If you’re looking for destinations closer to home holidays are available in Faro, Marrakech and Malaga. All will be available on various departure details until March 31st 2012. BA.com have chosen to display average temperatures for these locations to…
Travelling with kids may quickly turn from a list of minor annoyances to a never-ending nightmare filled with cranky children and annoyed parents. There are two schools of thought on how to deal with this. The first one dictates that you should give in to the fact you’ll never be as carefree as you were before you started doing your share to populate the planet, and drinking your way to the bottom of a bottle of Chardonnay while going over the holiday pictures of those golden years will do nothing to change that fact. And then there’s the school of…
If you find climbing the Eiffel Tower leaving you feeling sleepy, the French have come up with the perfect place for a quick nap… but it’ll cost you £10. It’s thought to be the first city to create a ‘siesta venue’ where the tired out tourists can have a quick power nap. The Zen bar allows people to have either a 15-minute power nap for 12 Euros (£10), or up to 45 minutes is 27 Euros (£23) if you fancy a snooze before dinner. Large vibrating beds are provided that massage as you slumber, or try out…
Thomson Airways are the first to provide this more environmentally friendly service. Flying from Birmingham to Arrecife on Thursday, using a mixture of waste fat and jet fuel. The service was meant to take flight last July, but has seen setbacks over testing processes and safety clearance. Thomson maintain that green biofuel has the potential to decrease aviation emissions by up to 80 per cent in the future. The airline giant has already planned its whole fleet to use bio-fuel over then next three years. Thomson Airways managing director Chris Browne said: ‘Sustainable biofuels offer us…
Compassion&Choices, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization working to improve care and expand choice at the end of life, and the Hawaii Death With Dignity Society (HDWDS), a local organization with similar goals, today announced the findings of a panel discussion on aid in dying. Experts on Hawaii law, medicine, elder care, legislative, and end-of-life issues concluded Hawaii physicians may already provide aid in dying subject to professional best-practice standards. “Hawaii law, through a number of statutory enactments, and a provision in a 1909 law unique to Hawaii, already empowers terminally-ill patients with significant freedom to determine their course…