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Remember when we thought that the Airbus A380 – the worlds biggest passenger jet – was the future of air travel?

Worlds 10 best city tram and street car rides SHARE Photo: Shutterstock ST CHARLES STREETCAR, NEW ORLEANS, USA Sashaying along St Charles Avenue through a tunnel of southern live oaks, this historic streetcar takes in antebellum mansions, two universities, lovely Audubon Park and some of the USAs prettiest civic architecture. Vintage streetcars built almost a century ago still operate on this 21-kilometre line, the worlds longest in continual operation. From the French Quarter, cross Canal ...

If a friend sent a vacuum cleaner to your hotel room as a gift, you might think they were mad. Or at least you would have done before March last year when Australias strict hotel quarantine program began as a response to COVID-19. These days, trampolines, flower arrangements and jigsaw puzzles are common welcome gifts, as arrivals from overseas suffer their mandatory 14 days in a hotel room not of their choosing. The vacuum cleaner may be a little more left field, but appreciated. One lucky gu...

Last weekend, if you wanted to book a one-way flight from London to Australia leaving in two weeks with Emirates, youd be having to pay about $11,000 at the cheapest. With Qatar, youd have to fork out almost $14,000. If you were looking to book a one-way fare from Sydney to London around the same time, on Qatar youd get economy for around $1000 with business class about $3000. Even in a months time, the discrepancy remains significant, if not huge. On Qatar, London to Melbourne would cost $516...

On March 4, 2021, a total of 10 international flights arrived at Melbourne Airport. On that date a year before the number would have been three or four times higher. That same day just 12 international flights arrived at Sydney Airport, five at Brisbane and none at Cairns. Statistics for passenger traffic at Australian airports show the savage impact of the pandemic on air travel. In December 2020, Melbourne Airport recorded 77 per cent fewer passenger movements than in the previous December. S...

Its still strange to me that there arent more people demanding their right to leave the country right now.

Next time you pitch a tent in the backyard for the kids, you might want to leave it up. A man on Melbournes Mornington Peninsula has put up a tent, called it "glamping" and is charging more than $200 a night for stays. And judging by his Airbnb listing, people are not only paying for the privilege, but, according to most of the nearly 70 reviews, they have been enjoying themselves. However Airbnb host Johns listing, "Glamping at Mt Martha by the Beach", though active since 2017, has recently c...

  From champagne to candy, with rose and bubblegum in between, is it any wonder we love a pink lake? With the right balance of salt, sun and some hardworking micro-organisms, here are the lakes with the hottest hues. See Also LAKE MACDONNELL, SOUTH AUSTRALIA If you want to tackle driving the Nullarbor Plain, prepare to hear stories of the 1256 kilometre-long, achingly boring drive across southern Australia. But just an hour west of Ceduna, where the plain officially starts, a left turn and...

Over the weekend of 20-21 February, video on social media appeared showing a United Airlines Boeing 777 with an engine on fire and vibrating from side to side. Passengers on the starboard side got an instructional view of the innards of a jet engine as bits of the shattered turbofan fell away, raining down on Broomfield, Colorado, landing in the yards of surprised homeowners and narrowly missing the half-dozen teams at soccer practice on the citys Commons Park. Happily for all, United Airlines ...

Link Young travellers are more likely to be pulling a long a case with wheels than wearing a backpack these days.  Photo: Getty Images But those days are becoming a thing of the past. Thats not necessarily a bad thing, and its not necessarily a good thing. It just is. And you only have to look around you to see the evidence that its real. Budget travel had changed pre-pandemic. Check out the spate of "flashpacker" hostels appearing in every popular tourist city, the way...